While EVs remain the focus in this episode of Watts & Wheels, the conversation also turns to something far less planet-friendly.
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The Ilitha Telecoms CEO has argued that meaningful connectivity is what South Africa needs to unlock economic participation.
The partnership aims to use the scale of the SABC Plus platform to expand the reach of Microsoft’s AI training programmes.
Frogfoot has expanded its footprint in KwaZulu-Natal through the acquisition of fibre assets from Mitsol.
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Amazon has unveiled a new version of its Oasis Kindle flagship e-reader, complete with an adjustable “warm light” to make it easier to read in changing light conditions.
Icasa has decided to conduct an inquiry into the so-called “must-carry regulations”, which allow MultiChoice and other pay-television operators to carry the SABC public service channels at no cost.
Two Gugulethu entrepreneurs applied on Tuesday to the court of the Commissioner of Patents in Pretoria for an interdict to stop Nedbank from using a card-blocking system they say was stolen from them.
The decline in the number of subscribers to DStv Premium accelerated slightly in the year to March 2019 and MultiChoice is actively looking at ways to stem the erosion.
MultiChoice reported a strong set of full-year results on Tuesday, with good growth coming from its lower-tier pay-television bouquets, although its DStv Premium segment remains under pressure.
First National Bank’s online banking website suffered unscheduled downtime on Tuesday, with frustrated customers taking to social media to complain about the outage.
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Consumers the world around have fallen so hard for the charms of tablets that sales are expected to balloon by 98% this year. Research firm Gartner forecasts that tablet sales will reach 118,9m units this year, up from 60m units in 2011. The firm also pegs tablet sales at 182,4m units in 2013 and 369,2m units in 2016
Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom netted US$400m for selling his two-year-old startup to Facebook for $1bn. That’s according to a report by Wired, which cites sources indicating that Systrom holds 40% of the company he founded — an impressively large chunk for any entrepreneur at the time of exit, let alone one on his first company
Iran plans to disconnect itself from the Internet and replace popular services such as Google, Yahoo and Hotmail with homegrown, Iranian services, according to a report in the International Business Times. The IBT writes that Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for information and communications
The world’s largest social network has snatched up the Internet’s most buzzed about mobile app for photo-sharing for US$1bn, and the question on everyone’s mind is: why? The answer is obvious — it’s all about the photos — and it has been hidden in plain sight for weeks. On Monday, Facebook announced that it would acquire
