South Africa will gain a second Réunion cable at 320Tbit/s by 2028, in preparation for the retirement of the ageing Safe system.
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UN human rights chief Volker Türk says advanced AI could pose an existential risk to humanity, and is calling for agreed red lines.
No proposal has reached the regulator on making midday power cheaper to soak up surplus solar in South Africa.
M-Net and KykNet are leaving the confines of Premium, cricket is dropping to R399 and Compact Plus is disappearing altogether.
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While a string of local tech start-ups were snapped up in 2021, many were acquired for significantly less than the blockbuster exits of years gone by.
France’s Groupe Canal+ has again increased its stake in MultiChoice Group, taking its position in the South African broadcaster to 20.1%.
JSE-listed Huge Group has reached a deal to acquire the remaining assets belonging to the former Virgin Mobile South Africa, now known as Tethys Mobile.
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The National Planning Commission has called for emergency measures to deal with the energy supply crisis facing South Africa.
India has valuable lessons that it can impart if South Africa wants to build a fast-growing IT services industry, says Zensar Technologies.
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The trade war is taking its toll on Apple, a new survey of Chinese consumer attitudes shows.
Apple’s top communications executive Steve Dowling is leaving the company. Dowling has worked at Apple for 16 years and been in his role since 2014.
Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, said it will repurchase as much as US$40-billion of shares in a new buyback programme and boosted its quarterly dividend by $0.05 to $0.51/share.
Huawei is offering up its most valuable 5G secrets and $1.5-billion to software developers, courting the global tech community at a time the US is heightening scrutiny of the Chinese giant.
A memorandum penned by Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) chairman Stephen Mncube, instructing Icasa councillors to back off on acting against iBurst parent Wireless Business Solutions (WBS), provoked an angry response from two councillors, internal correspondence in
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
