Legislative changes and lower-cost infrastructure are driving the advance of cryptocurrencies into mainstream payments.
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Electricity market liberalisation, new trading rules and grid reform will define renewable energy progress in 2026.
South Africa’s latest trial of digital sound broadcasting – using DRM technology – is set to be launched next month.
The EU has formally rejected a proposal from operators that big tech companies should help pay for infrastructure.
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Facebook is considering a test to stop showing the number of “likes” that posts get in an effort to reduce the competitive pressure of social media.
South Africa averted a second recession in as many years after economic growth rebounded in the second quarter.
Shareholders in telecommunications company Vox, including Rand Merchant Bank, have agreed to buy out fellow investor Investec as part of a R2-billion recapitalisation of the company.
Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has criticised national treasury’s discussion document on growing South Africa’s economy, suggesting the document’s chapter on telecommunications is outdated.
South Africa should quicken the process of spinning off one of Eskom’s units as a first step toward overhauling its operating structure, according to two people familiar with the options being presented to the government.
Nedbank has partnered with Microsoft to migrate components of its IT infrastructure into the cloud, the financial services company said on Monday.
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The annual International CES consumer electronics show running in Las Vegas this week has highlighted what industry, at least, believes is our technology-enabled future. This year, it seems to lie totally with the
Your home Internet connection works in one of two ways. One involves using a copper wire, probably your telephone line to send electrical signals from the Internet provider to your home and back. This technology hasn’t changed much since the days of the telegraph
Facebook’s recent apology for its Year in Review feature, which had displayed to a grieving father images of his dead daughter, highlights again the tricky relationship between the social media behemoth and its users’ data. The free service Facebook offers to its
As long as you don’t think about it too hard, today’s entertainment is great. Think just a little and it’s actually amazing — you can watch it in a theatre; on your television set (old-fashioned pay TV or “over the top” on the Internet); and on your computer, tablet and smartphone
