For more than 30 years, Intel has dominated chip-making, producing the most important component in the bulk of the world’s computers. That run is now under threat.
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Eskom’s first-half profit plunged 89% and the situation at the South African state-owned power utility is likely to worsen in the next six months, chairman Jabu Mabuza said on Wednesday.
Safaricom’s market share dropped 1.6 percentage points to 65.4% in the three months to June as Bharti Airtel’s Kenyan unit and Telkom Kenya increased mobile phone customers at a faster pace.
Amazon.com will let customers put servers used in the company’s cloud computing data centres into their own facilities, it said on Wednesday.
A new report by Cisco predicts that more traffic will flow across the Internet in the next five years than in the history of the global interconnected network.
Amazon.com has taken a big step toward reducing reliance on Intel for a critical component of its cloud computing service.
Government’s telecommunications bill, if enacted without radical changes, will have a “devastating” effect on the ICT sector, destroying the incentives that have led to almost universal mobile coverage in South Africa.
Vodacom has rubbished the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill’s wholesale open-access provisions, describing them as “intrusive and onerous”.
The group’s chief innovation officer, Herman Singh, is expected to leave to start his own tech venture, sources said, following chief technology officer Babak Fouladi out the door.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has joined a growing chorus of tech executives lambasting Web platforms like Google and Facebook over their collection of user data and urged regulation of them.