Optimism bias, weak oversight and hidden complexity have helped derail some of South Africa’s biggest IT projects.
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South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.
Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.
Cape Town start-up Shiprazor has raised R44-million, led by Norrsken22, to expand its courier network and AI tools.
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iOCO, formerly EOH Holdings, has appointed Nompumelelo Mokou to its board of directors.
Google has launched a “cloud region” in Joburg as it chases its US rivals in building data centre infrastructure in South Africa.
Any future EU penalties — be they aimed at Apple or Google — could be badly received by US President Donald Trump.
Media industry lobby groups have warned that a premature analogue switch-off will “devastate” free-to-air broadcasting.
Eskom has once again implemented load shedding, again blaming outages at its coal-fired power plants.
E.tv’s litigation seeking to stop analogue switch-off has little to do with protecing the poor, communications minister Solly Malatsi’s legal team has claimed.
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More than one-third of desks in offices around the globe are unoccupied all week, according to a new report.
Elon Musk’s latest move at X could undermine the ability of news publishers to draw an audience.
Activision will sell its non-European streaming rights as part of a plan to get its acquisition by Microsoft past UK regulators.
Users have been asking for weeks for a version that works on their computers. Soon, the company is expected to fulfil the wish.
Historically, powerful entities tend to consolidate their power. But the recent populist backlash might push technologists to move in the opposite direction.
The SABC has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent times. The question that needs answering is: what needs to be done to fix it?
