Safety researchers warn touchscreen-heavy dashboards increase distraction, reaction times and crash risk for drivers globally.
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Buy now, pay later gives customers flexibility, but light regulatory oversight may ensure safe, responsible financial access.
Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
Women’s groups, tech watchdogs and progressive activists are calling on Google and Apple to remove the apps.
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After briefly entering the PC market in South Africa a few years ago and then beating a strategic retreat, Huawei is poised to reintroduce its MateBook laptops in the local market.
MTN Nigeria’s profit margin, measured using Ebitda, fell by two percentage points to 51.3% in the six months to June 2020, partly due to accounting changes and Covid-19.
The Black IT Forum said it will drag communications regulator Icasa to court if it doesn’t get an immediate move on with commercialising television white-spaces technology.
First National Bank is launching Virtual Card, a digital card solution built into its smartphone app that it believes will make both online and physical payments significantly safer.
EOH Holdings said in an investor update on Wednesday that it turned in a “resilient financial performance” in its third fiscal quarter and that it’s returned to a stable and cash-generative position.
Toyota is set to produce its first “hybrid synergy drive” (petrol-electric) car on the African continent at its plant in Durban, as part of a R2.5-billion investment in a new production line.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave cryptocurrency enthusiasts a little optimism for the new year. Zuckerberg referenced cryptocurrencies in a posting Thursday in which he laid out how he will spend 2018 trying to correct persistent
China plans to limit power use by some bitcoin miners, people familiar with the matter said, a potential challenge to an industry whose energy-intensive computer networks enable transactions in the cryptocurrency. The People’s Bank
Apple’s offer to replace iPhone batteries cheaply may cut sales of new handsets by millions of units this year, according to Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz. The Cupertino, California-based company recently said it intentionally
BlackBerry’s efforts to push into self-driving cars took a new step forward as the former smartphone maker signed a deal with Chinese Internet giant Baidu to work together on automotive software. Baidu will bundle BlackBerry’s QNX
Telkom, which will become SA’s fourth mobile network operator when it launches commercial wireless services later this year, will sign a national roaming agreement with MTN, multiple…
Telecommunications analysts have lauded Cell C for its plan apparently to sell its national network of base stations. TechCentral reported on Tuesday that Cell C is in…
