Amid stiff competition, DStv is cutting hardware costs and letting households split subscription payments.
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The rand is stronger against the US dollar than it was a decade ago as a falling dollar and surging gold price lift the local currency.
South Africa’s new immigration white paper proposes a sweeping, tech-driven overhaul.
The decision by Leon Schreiber to hike fees for accessing home affairs’ online verification system will be reviewed in court.
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The organisers of the Mobile World Congress, the telecommunications industry’s biggest annual gathering, are postponing next year’s event to late June to make it possible to convene safely despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
As of 1 January 2021, Nedbank clients will no longer be able to use cheques as a payment option. In an announcement on Tuesday, the bank said this is because few clients make use of the service.
Motorists and taxpayers appear set to become the cash cow to allow the government to reduce its percentage of the funding of the multibillion-rand expansion of the Gautrain.
After the initial euphoria of skipping smog-filled traffic jams, a new reality has dawned in which the workday blends into the rest of life, like a never-ending video conference call.
Negotiations for e-commerce and digital trade under an Africa-wide free trade pact will be fast-tracked as the coronavirus pandemic heightens the need for a legal and governance framework.
In pictures | Plane maker Airbus unveiled three designs it’s studying to build hydrogen-powered aircraft as it races to bring a zero-emission passenger plane into service by 2035.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence on the crisis over political-advertising firm Cambridge Analytica’s access to user data on the social network, outlining concrete steps the company is taking to make sure
Uber Technologies has halted autonomous vehicle tests after one of its cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, in what is likely the first pedestrian fatality involving the technology. The 49-year-old woman, Elaine
Facebook shares fell the most in two months on Monday as American and European officials demanded answers to reports that a political advertising firm retained information on millions of Facebook users
Apple is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time, using a secret manufacturing facility near its California headquarters to make small numbers of the screens for testing purposes, according to people
Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, was in SA last week to meet with the software company’s customers and to attend the soccer World Cup final in Johannesburg. TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod sat down with Courtois, who is responsible for all of Microsoft’s operations outside the US, for an exclusive media interview and asked him about life at the company after the departure of Bill Gates, cloud computing and the plans for its Bing search engine.
Brazil has set aside money and expertise to help SA if it ditches its commitment to the European standard for digital terrestrial television and stumps for the standard used in the South American country instead. Andre Barbosa Filho, special advisor to the presidency of Brazil, says that if SA decides to adopt Brazil’s integrated service digital broadcasting terrestrial (ISDB-Tb) standard, it will bring in people to discuss joint ventures for the manufacturing of television sets, mobile television handsets and digital set-top boxes.
