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A tender document issued by Sita makes facial recognition a hard requirement for body cameras, with no quantities set.
Existing subscribers have until 12 October to move across, after which the current app stops working.
Under MTN’s new wholesale model, an MVNO that wants aggressive retail pricing can have it, but there’s a catch.
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The cabinet has decided to scrap government plans to license a wholesale open-access network in South Africa.
MultiChoice Group shares jumped after it said it had reached a settlement agreement over a multibillion-rand tax dispute in Nigeria.
Eskom will reduce the intensity of load shedding to level 3 at 9pm on Thursday.
Absa-banked merchants can now accept card payments directly on their mobile phones, without the need for a point-of-sale terminal.
Digital bank TymeBank is expanding into the medical insurance space, with a plan to offer South Africans access to private healthcare starting at R139/month.
Covid-19 may have killed one in every 200 South Africans, a study suggests.
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How much are customers willing to pay for Netflix? The streaming service is grappling with that question once again after raising prices in some of its largest territories over the past month.
Intel, whose products dominate the world of computing, said it’s going to wind down a multibillion-dollar, multi-decade effort to grab a viable stake of the mobile phone industry.
Apple and Qualcomm agreed to end a two-year legal battle over billions of dollars of technology licensing fees that had threatened to reshape the chip maker’s business.
Apple is reportedly spending “hundreds of millions of dollars” to obtain new videogames for its upcoming Apple Arcade subscription service.
ZTE Mzanzi has accused its partner, China’s ZTE, of “throwing it under a bus” when it terminated agreements with the local, black-controlled company. It’s also accused it of colluding with competitor Huawei. TechCentral broke the news on Thursday
The African leg of a new submarine telecommunications system that will serve markets in the North and South Atlantic will be ready for service in the first quarter of 2014. The cable will offer high-speed global connectivity to SA, Angola and Nigeria. That’s the word from the Wasace Cable Company, which is building the































