Automated dispatch technology is gaining ground in South Africa as crime drives a surge in security callouts.
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MTN Group has agreed to acquire 100% of IHS Towers, reversing years of selling off its tower infrastructure.
Icasa expects it will soon appoint a service provider that will run South Africa’s next spectrum auction.
Two of South Africa’s biggest trade unions have rejected an improved 6% salary increase offer from Eskom.
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The tech landscape is pockmarked with many missteps and failures, from IBM’s OS/2 to the recent CrowdStrike disaster.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by the departure of US companies.
A US federal court has blocked President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs from going into effect.
Icasa has not ruled out lodging a formal complaint against SpaceX at the International Telecommunication Union.
MTN South Africa recently announced that it would roll out low-cost 4G smartphones to 1.2 million of its prepaid customers.
The bank’s systems were offline following planned maintenance the night before that went awry.
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China’s solar factories are tapping the brakes as the industry struggles with a price war and overcapacity.
xAI is in talks to raise up to US$6-billion at a proposed valuation of $20-billion, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Nasa’s Mars robot helicopter Ingenuity was the first vehicle to achieve powered, controlled flight on another world.
IBM shares jumped nearly 13% to a more than 10-year high on Thursday amid strong demand for its AI services.
Ether, the second biggest crypto asset after bitcoin, hit its previous all-time high of US$1 400 this month and is trading at 130 times its price of four years ago. Astonishingly, the rally may be far from over.
Intel’s surprise resolve to stick with chip manufacturing is a move that ought to bring a sigh of relief to leading foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
