South Africa’s quantum industry is still in its infancy – but it’s no longer purely academic in nature.
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Safaricom’s AGM on 31 July will formalise who really controls East Africa’s biggest operator.
OpenAI will publicly launch its most capable model, GPT‑5.6, on Thursday, after delaying the launch last month.
Operators say the rapid deployment rules, now in draft form, ignore the municipal wayleave bottleneck.
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Shoprite Holdings’ IT spending soared nearly 18% in the 2021 financial year as its focus on technology-led disruption and e-commerce shifted to become top strategic priorities.
Apple will hold a special event on 14 September, which most industry watchers believe will be used to unveil a new line of its flagship iPhones.
The longer-term future of Mercedes-Benz’s production plant in East London has been secured by investments to ensure its flexibility to produce vehicles with different powertrains.
Mobile payments platform M-Pesa has topped 50 million active users – measured by monthly active customers – telecommunications group Vodacom said on Tuesday.
Telkom has become the latest mobile operator to chop ad hoc data prices, cutting the headline price of 1GB of data to R79 – R6 less than rivals Vodacom and MTN – and introducing a new 1.5GB bundle.
Rudi Jansen, a former CEO of Mweb and a pioneer in South Africa’s early Internet industry, has died. Jansen passed away on Saturday — from a heart attack, according to an industry colleague.
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China is taking its rivalry with the US to the heavens, spending at least $9-billion to build a celestial navigation system and cut its dependence on the American-owned GPS.
China’s Internet sector wrapped up the third quarter earnings season with its slowest growth on record.
The US government is reportedly contacting key allies to get them to persuade telecommunications companies in their countries to avoid using equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies.
Simplicity is supposed to be a selling point for Apple’s iPhone. It may be a problem at the US supreme court.
The only way universal access to broadband services is going to become a reality in SA and elsewhere in the world is through a combination of regulation of pricing and spectrum allocation and sensible investment from both government
Two top ex-Telkom executives, former group CEO Reuben September and former chief financial officer Peter Nelson, are set to stage a dramatic comeback to the telecommunications industry. TechCentral has learnt from well-placed industry
