Defence priorities, AI and a possible SpaceX IPO are fuelling renewed global investment in space technology.
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The move comes amid a feud between Sentech and the SABC over the former’s fees for signal distribution.
Sansa has warned that a powerful solar eruption could trigger severe geomagnetic storm conditions.
High mobile internet use may be masking a fibre broadband shortfall that is limiting South Africa’s economic growth.
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An outage has hit Twitter, preventing some users from tweeting, receiving notifications and viewing direct messages.
The speed of typing on a smartphone is catching up with physical keyboards, according to a large study of users on touchscreen handsets.
Four payments companies that have joined Facebook as founding members of the Libra Association are wavering over whether to officially sign on to the cryptocurrency project.
The ANC has approved a range of proposals to revive economic growth, but stopped short of endorsing finance minister Tito Mboweni’s controversial plan to sell some state assets.
A Zimbabwean government directive banning the purchase and sale of cash through mobile money services may halt much of the nation’s commerce.
Telkom has taken the wraps off new Sim-only fixed-LTE broadband plans for both contract and prepaid customers, with prices starting at R59/month for 5GB of data (plus 5GB of “night surfer” data).
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This week brought news of the challenge Apple faces with dwindling sales of the Apple Watch. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also pulled the plug on its smartphone business purchased from Nokia
Pay-television operator StarTimes, which owns South Africa’s StarSat, is suing the Ghanaian government for US$200m (about R2,5bn) over alleged wrongful termination of contract. The Chinese company, which competes
As the UK’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom embarks on its next strategic review of the market, incumbent fixed-line operator BT – Britain’s equivalent of Telkom – has called for it to be allowed to close
On Wednesday morning at 2am South African time, something chronologically peculiar took place: there was an extra second between 01:59:59 and 02:00:00. This makes 1 July 2015 (or 30 June 2015
