While EVs remain the focus in this episode of Watts & Wheels, the conversation also turns to something far less planet-friendly.
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The Ilitha Telecoms CEO has argued that meaningful connectivity is what South Africa needs to unlock economic participation.
The partnership aims to use the scale of the SABC Plus platform to expand the reach of Microsoft’s AI training programmes.
Frogfoot has expanded its footprint in KwaZulu-Natal through the acquisition of fibre assets from Mitsol.
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Outgoing Takealot Group CEO Kim Reid said the South African Post Office should get the basics right – delivering the mail – before trying to enforce a monopoly over the delivery of parcels weighing less than 1kg.
Telkom has finally launched support for embedded Sims, or eSims, on smartphones connected to its network.
South Africa’s headline unemployment rate hit a record high of 34.4% in the second quarter from 32.6% in the first three months of the year as businesses shed staff due to Covid-19 lockdowns.
OPay, an Africa-focused digital payment start-up founded by a Chinese entrepreneur, has secured $400-million in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, valuing it at $2-billion.
Google’s new submarine cable system, Equiano, which will connect Africa and Europe, will make its first landfall later this week – on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic.
Facebook is letting some users make voice and video calls within its main app on a trial basis, aiming to make it easier to place calls without opening its standalone Messenger app.
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Huawei has filed a motion in a US court challenging the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of telecommunications equipment, the latest action in an ongoing clash with Washington.
Facebook says there are still “many open questions” about how it will use and keep data such as users’ Internet protocol addresses as part of its years-long plans to focus on privacy through messaging and groups.
Forget drones. The future of deliveries may be robo-vans. A Chinese start-up called Neolix has kicked off mass production of its self-driving delivery vehicles.
The US and Japan will “dramatically expand” their cooperation in outer space, with missions to Mars and the moon coming “very soon”, US President Donald Trump said.
Internet service providers could be forced to monitor traffic on their networks to ensure their users aren’t infringing copyright and suspend those who are. This is contained in proposals put forward by the Copyright Review Commission. Service providers, telecommunications operators and other online
Most South Africans are oblivious to the fact that we are in the worst grip of a crisis that has major negative implications for every one of us both now and in the future. People are ignorant of the electricity crisis because “the lights are still on”. But the lights will not stay on. Eskom’s daily message to us all is to use less electricity
