Smart meter installations are lagging sharply, undermining Eskom’s ability to end load reduction timeously.
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AI data centres are starving the rest of the market of RAM and other components, pushing up the price of PCs, servers and everyday electronics.
Short-form content is developing as a new paradigm that traditional broadcasters and streamers are taking seriously.
Trade minister Parks Tau has appointed a new SEZ advisory board, blending government, business and technology expertise.
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Global telecommunications carriers now have an alternative route for international network traffic thanks to a new fibre link that cuts straight through the centre of Africa.
Telkom has asked Icasa for additional spectrum in the 2.3GHz band – and the company is willing to give up its holdings at 2.4GHz to make it happen.
Bank Zero account and transaction fees will also remain exactly the same next year, meaning they have been unchanged since the mutual bank went into beta last year.
Exclusive | Vantage Data Centers’ Antoine Boniface spoke to TechCentral about why the company is investing $1-billion on a massive data centre campus in Johannesburg.
Manelisa Mavuso has been appointed as MD of Mweb with immediate effect after parent Dimension Data decided against selling the business.
Eskom has filed an urgent application in the high court to prevent a situation where it will be unable to generate any revenue from 1 April next year.
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Jeff Garzik used to exchange e-mails with Satoshi Nakamoto before the anonymous creator of bitcoin disappeared years ago. He doubts Satoshi has resurfaced again.
The US will extend for another 90 days a narrow set of exemptions that had protected rural networks and other US customers from a ban on doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies.
The relationship between Donald Trump and the largest US technology companies has often been frosty but a common opponent – France’s plan to tax US tech giants – will bring the two sides together, at least temporarily.
US wireless carriers have long said they may slow video traffic on their networks to avoid congestion and bottlenecks. But new research shows the throttling happens pretty much everywhere all the time.
There was a tight race between Sipho Maseko and Brian Armstrong for Telkom’s top job, a source claiming to have knowledge of the appointment process has told TechCentral. Telkom confirmed the news of Maseko’s appointment as its new group CEO in a statement to shareholders after TechCentral broke
The supreme court of appeal has handed down a judgment in favour of Nasdaq- and JSE-listed payments specialist Net1 UEPS Technologies, dealing a blow to Absa and its AllPay unit, which had earlier won a high court battle over the R10bn government tender for the payment of social grants. Absa claimed
