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The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory has announced that a group of 20 galaxies have been discovered with the MeerKAT telescope.
EOH Holdings could soon be blacklisted by from doing business with government – if the State IT Agency (Sita) gets its way. This follows the public sector corruption scandals uncovered at the group in recent years.
The Gauteng provincial government paid Microsoft $20.9-million, instead of R20.9-million, for software, costing the taxpayer millions of rand in exchange-rate losses, the Democratic Alliance has said.
Facebook and Liquid Intelligent Technologies are extending their reach in Africa by laying 2 000km of fibre in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Global Partnership for Ethiopia, the Safaricom-led consortium that won a licence to build a network in the East African nation, has appointed Anwar Soussa to lead the venture.
Botswana has granted a generation licence for a 100MW solar project to local firm Shumba Energy, making it the first independent power producer to set up a large-scale solar plant in the country.
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Astronomers have made the first direct observations of a planet outside the solar system using a technique that combines the light from multiple telescopes.
Sony said on Tuesday it will combine the struggling Xperia mobile business with its television, audio and camera operations into a single division.
Five years after its ballyhooed debut, Apple Pay is still struggling to take off. Apple is betting its swanky new credit card can change that.
Oracle will dismiss several hundred workers in May as the world’s second largest software maker tries to rejig its faltering cloud computing strategy.
Discovery Health has launched an iPad application called HealthID that it claims will ease the burden of paperwork and administration on SA doctors, making it easier for the medical aid administrator to process claims in real time while maintaining patient confidentiality. Discovery Health SA CEO Jonathan
SA will host the largest part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, science & technology minister Naledi Pandor said on Friday. The SKA committee met in the Netherlands on Friday to decide whether SA or Australia (with New Zealand) would get to host the core site of the project. The committee
