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Microsoft’s Outlook and Teams were disrupted for more than 10 hours as servers went unexpectedly offline.
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.
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Mining companies in South Africa are considering spending as much as R40-billion to construct 2GW of power generation capacity.
The European Union is creating a common charging port for mobile phones, tablets and headphones, a move that will impact Apple directly.
Groupe Canal+, the pay-television operator owned by French media conglomerate Vivendi, has again increased its stake in DStv parent MultiChoice Group.
Cabinet has adopted a more ambitious emissions reduction target ahead of a United Nations climate conference in November.
The Competition Competition has green-lighted JSE-listed technology group Altron’s acquisition of information security specialist Lawtrust.
The cost of the intractable semiconductor shortage has ballooned by more than 90%, pushing the total hit to 2021 revenue for the world’s car makers to $210-billion.
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Apple manufacturing partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has started mass production of next-generation processors for new iPhones launching later this year, according to people familiar with the
ZTE is estimating losses of at least 20bn yuan ($3.1bn) from a US technology ban that’s halted major operations as clients pull out of deals and expenses mount, people familiar with the matter said. The telecommunications
The US Air Force has delayed the launch of its first Global Positioning System III satellite from this month to October at the earliest as it reviews the upgraded rocket that Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to use to boost it into
Adobe Systems has agreed to buy e-commerce company Magento for US$1.7bn in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the digital commerce industry from Salesforce.com and Oracle. The Photoshop software provider is making
Technology billionaire Mark Shuttleworth has slammed government’s failure to fix problems at the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), warning ongoing capacity problems at the regulator are hampering economic growth. Shuttleworth, speaking to TechCentral following Icasa’s decision last week to postpone an auction of valuable radio frequency spectrum, says there is no “clear prioritisation of telecommunications as a vital source of growth in the SA economy”.
Mobile operators are appealing to the department of justice to extend the deadline of the Regulation of Interception and Communication Act (Rica), says Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys. The act requires that all telecommunications providers and Internet providers register customer details, including their ID numbers and physical addresses. The process has to be completed by January next year, after which unregistered customers have to be cut off from the networks.
