Cheap handsets helped Chinese smartphone makers climb to the top of their home market. Now they’re hoping cutting-edge technology will take them global. Shrugging off a reputation for knockoffs, the country’s
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year as it continues to work with Nasa for a planned crewed mission to the International Space Station. The passengers
How dangerous is a teddy bear or a doll? In the Internet of things era, it’s not an idle question but one for parents and regulators to ponder seriously. On Monday, Troy Hunt, the cybersecurity expert who
JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms and Cell C have reached an 11th-hour agreement that now appears to pave the way for a major restructuring of the debt-laden mobile operator
Cell C has hit back at its black economic empowerment partner CellSAf, which at the weekend threatened to take the mobile operator to court if it proceeds with a planned restructuring in terms of which
The comeback of the Nokia 3310, the icon of the “dumb phone” industry, is mainly a marketing gimmick by a Finnish start-up. But there are plenty of reasons to embrace it as something more – as an antidote to these
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The high court in Pretoria on Friday confirmed that traffic authorities have to abide by the letter of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act and ordered that the fines before
Intelligent robots are poised to take over the world. Sounds like a bad 1950s sci-fi movie, right? Perhaps not. If technology keeps accelerating at the current rate, robots and artificial intelligence will either displace
On 17 February, telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele held his second engagement with the information and communications technology sector on the national integrated ICT