The case against self-driving cars

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If you believe the optimists, self-driving cars will dominate our roads within a couple decades. This will reduce or even eliminate such human-created ills as traffic jams and fatal accidents. I’m not so

Bell Pottinger rescue plan collapses: reports

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Bell Pottinger’s attempt to sell itself has reportedly collapsed amid an exodus of clients and staff, succumbing to an unprecedented backlash over the London PR firm’s involvement in a racially divisive

And now for autonomous cargo ships

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The Yara Birkeland isn’t an ordinary cargo ship. If all goes well then the vessel, currently being built for a Norwegian agricultural fertiliser company, will become the world’s first fully autonomous

New tech listing heading to the JSE

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The JSE’s AltX is set to get a new technology listing. 4Sight Holdings, which recently acquired Digitata Mauritius for an undisclosed sum, will head to the AltX in October, the company said. The holding company

Alviva announces two acquisitions

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Alviva Holdings (formerly Pinnacle Holdings) has acquired two companies, one an infrastructure management firm and the other of a developer electric-car charging point software. The first acquisition

Post Office set to sign Sassa payments deal

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If the embattled South Africa Social Security Agency makes good on its promise, the South African Post Office will be contracted to take over social grant payments from incumbent Cash Paymaster Services in the next seven

Push for more affordable roaming in SADC

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The high cost of roaming in the Southern African Development Community region has come under the spotlight at a meeting of ICT ministers taking place in Durban, with renewed calls for operators to reduce roaming costs in