Apple made threats and lied: Qualcomm

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Qualcomm has accused Apple of lying to regulators to spur investigations of the chip maker, and threatening it to cover up the use of inferior parts in some iPhones. The world’s largest maker of phone semiconductors responded to

Vodacom hikes contract prices by stealth

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While Vodacom’s “overhaul” of its Smart and Red integrated contract plans has meant an increase in the number of bundled minutes, SMSes and data practically across the board, it has also managed to lift the pricing for these plans. Its mid-level Smart M+ plan is now

S&P warns over Telkom credit rating

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Just a week after downgrading South Africa’s foreign currency rating to “junk”, S&P Global Ratings has changed its rating outlook on the country’s biggest fixed-line telecommunications operator, Telkom, to “negative”. Its rating has been

Tesla tops GM’s market value

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Elon Musk’s Tesla briefly surpassed General Motors to become America’s most valuable car maker, eclipsing a company whose well-being was once viewed as interdependent with the nation’s. A week after topping Ford, Tesla climbed

Dlamini engineered crisis to favour Net1: ex-DG

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Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini bypassed officials at the country’s welfare department and helped create a crisis that would ensure that Net1 UEPS Technologies would continue to distribute payments on behalf of the government

AI: humans back for another Go

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It’s time for the humans to have another Go. An artificial intelligence program romped to a lopsided victory over South Korean Go master Lee Sedol in 2016. Now, Google DeepMind’s AI software is heading to the

Factions ‘tearing ANC apart’

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Factions within the ANC are threatening to tear apart the party which has governed the country since the end of apartheid in 1994, according to its treasurer-general, Zweli Mkhize. “There is need for leadership to dismantle

Radical restructuring at Datatec

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International ICT company Datatec is in talks to sell a major share of subsidiary Westcon’s operations for more than US$800m. Datatec, which is listed on the JSE, with a secondary listing on London’s AIM, operates across three

Seacom outage affecting some users

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Seacom said at the weekend that an outage is affecting services to some clients. The problem, on segment 15 of the Seacom submarine cable system, is located slightly west of Djibouti in the Red Sea and occurred on 8 April at about 9pm South