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The co-founder who led Nvidia for 33 years has resigned after a week of scandal. CFO Colette Kress takes over as interim CEO.
Bob Group says customers’ card details should be treated as exposed after a breach of its systems in late October.
SunCentral 1 supplies three customers. SolarAfrica says its next two plants will share their output among 42.
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The Internet Service Providers’ Association wants Icasa to crack open South Africa’s mobile industry to greater competition.
The regulator has set out a timetable for the licensing of so-called “high-demand spectrum”, saying it plans to expedite the long-delayed process.
South Africa will complete analogue television switch-off by March 2022, the cabinet said in a statement on Friday.
Enoch Godongwana says topping his “to-do list” to bolster economic growth includes reforming the country’s electricity supply and assigning spectrum.
Altron has sold the two components of its People Solutions business to separate buyers, Dubai-based iSON Xperiences and South African consultancy LRMG.
Energy regulator Nersa has rejected a multi-year revenue application by state-owned power utility Eskom, the regulator said in a statement.
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Forget autonomous cars – your next taxi might whiz you across town through the air. Volocopter, a German start-up backed by Intel and Daimler, has built a drone-like electric helicopter to ferry travellers across
Facebook said it had data-sharing partnerships with four Chinese consumer device makers, including Huawei, escalating concerns that the social network has consistently failed to tell users how their personal
Qualcomm, the biggest maker of semiconductors for smartphones, unveiled a new chip, said Samsung Electronics is already on board as a customer and offered free wireless data for devices based on the processor
Sharp, controlled by Foxconn Technology Group, plans to buy Toshiba’s PC business as its Taiwanese parent seeks to expand beyond contract manufacturing and build a brand of its own. Toshiba is selling 80% of the unit for
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has taken tentative steps towards regulating Internet Protocol television (IPTV) and video-on-demand services. The authority released a position paper at the weekend following industry input as to how it should approach the management of the technology.
Are Cell C, Dimension Data and Andile Ngcaba’s investment firm Convergence Partners planning to build a national fibre-optic telecommunications network? Rumours have begun circulating that the three companies are in talks about doing exactly that. TechCentral has established from various parties that preliminary talks are already underway.

































