Bad news: there is unlikely to be be a breakthrough in smartphone battery technology before the end of the decade, according to a new report. Although there will be incremental improvement in existing
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Communications minister Faith Muthambi lashed out at Democratic Alliance spokesman Gavin Davis on Wednesday after he accused her of meddling in the SABC board. “The minister is calling upon honourable
The higher education sector is at risk due to lack of funding, the University of the Witwatersrand said on Wednesday. “The amount of funding available for students wanting to pursue tertiary education is inadequate and well below that of international norms in similar
The gulf between those with access to the fastest broadband speeds and those on basic speeds has widened over recent years and in the near term looks likely to increase further. This is a key finding in Deloitte’s TMT Predictions 2015 report, released this
Rating agency Moody’s has changed Sanral’s outlook from stable to negative, due to debt and decreased e-toll revenue. “The change in outlook and lower BCA (Baseline Credit Assessment) reflect
MTN South Africa has launched a new product called Data Share that allows its customers to share their data bundles with up to 20 other MTN numbers without incurring any Sim linking or
Click-and-collect e-commerce, such as the locker system that Makro will introduce this year, is set to boom, according to a new report by Deloitte. The firm says in its TMT Predictions 2015 report, released last week, that strong growth is expected in Europe
There were no power cuts expected on Tuesday morning, although the electricity grid was constrained, Eskom said. “The system is constrained. We expect some of the generating units back during the day. However, should anything unexpected happened we will go into load
In the coming decades, human beings will, for the first time, have comprehensive maps of the universe, says Roy Maartens, professor and research chair in cosmology at the University of the Western Cape. “If you have surveys [of the skies] from today to, say
There will be load shedding even if it may cost the ANC votes. This is the expressed attitude of public enterprises minister Lynne Brown, who remains resolute about fixing the problems plaguing power utility Eskom for the long term, even if it means doing the unpopular