Despite cost pressures, South Africa’s cloud market is on track to exceed R100-billion by 2029, according to BMIT.
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The decision by Leon Schreiber to hike fees for accessing home affairs’ online verification system will be reviewed in court.
Amid stiff competition, DStv is cutting hardware costs and letting households split subscription payments.
South African shoppers can now search Amazon using images, screenshots or barcodes with Amazon Lens.
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Lesotho has written to Vodacom Group’s subsidiary in the landlocked Southern African nation, telling it that its “unified licence” to operate has been revoked. Vodacom said it will fight the decision in court.
Lesotho’s government is seeking to regulate online behaviour with a law compelling social media users to obtain an “Internet broadcasting allowance”, as unease about digital platforms grows in some African countries.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has announced the release of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Commission Report for public consumption and comment.
The measure of the business climate in 2020 remained well below the 2019 average, at 84.3 index points compared to an average of 92.6 in the first nine months of last year.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams said on Tuesday that government is pressing ahead with a plan to merge state-owned enterprises Broadband Infraco and Sentech to form a state infrastructure company.
Internet service provider iSAT South Africa is embroiled in an ugly dispute with Dimension Data, with iSAT accusing the company of causing it severe financial and reputational harm over a failed cloud system.
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Bitcoin “HODLers” are seeing some light in the bear-market tunnel. While it remains to be seen whether it’s the end of this year’s slump, the 20% gain over the last five days has them cheering. The largest cryptocurrency
A Moscow court has ordered telecommunications companies to block the Telegram chat app in Russia after it refused to grant intelligence authorities access to its users’ encrypted messages, in a blow to the company just
When Apple’s HomePod smart speaker went on sale in January, it entered a market pioneered and dominated by Amazon’s Echo line-up of Alexa-powered devices. Apple, which has arrived late before only to overtake
In some ways, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg might be relieved. He prepared for harder questions than he got during his first testimony before US lawmakers. No senator asked him, for example, about whether
Cell C is like a new company. In a presentation to media on Wednesday morning, CEO Lars Reichelt set out a radical new strategy and unveiled a revitalised brand image for the mobile operator. It may still be SA’s smallest cellular network by market share — Telkom hasn’t launched its mobile business yet — but under Reichelt, who was appointed to the job last year, Cell C is fast becoming the market’s feistiest player.
Pay-TV operator Super 5 Media on Tuesday retrenched all of its remaining employees, more than 40 people in all, and is now facing the prospect of liquidation if it isn’t able to pay one of its biggest creditors by the end of the week. TechCentral, which last week broke the news of the problems at the company, has now learnt Super 5 Media is facing a claim of as much as R25m from Rothschild, an international investment advisory company.
