Vodacom wants Icasa to assign the defunct Woan spectrum to operators for satellite-to-phone services.
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South Africa’s redrafted AI policy goes to cabinet by March 2027, months later than first promised.
Finland has offered to help South African researchers reach Lumi, one of Europe’s fastest supercomputers.
GoTyme Bank says its customers now originate about a quarter of PayShap payments to cellphone numbers.
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Cashless parking management systems are showing benefits for centre managers and their customers.
Larry Ellison dropped out of university before co-founding what eventually grew into one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
Sub-Saharan Africans boosted their savings at the fastest pace in more than a decade, according to the World Bank.
Policy reforms aimed at attracting foreign investment don’t go far enough, critics have warned.
Eskom aims to shift to mainly clean energy sources by 2040 from its current predominantly coal-based fleet.
MTN Group has appointed David Behr as its group chief enterprise business officer with immediate effect.
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Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday launched a direct challenge to Twitter with Threads, garnering millions of users in hours.
China’s export controls on metals used in making semiconductors are “just a start”, an influential trade policy adviser said.
Threads, Instagram’s text-based conversation app, is expected to be released on Thursday.
Twitter users will soon need to be verified to use TweetDeck, the social media company said.
This is the moment the US technology superpowers surely knew was coming: the US government is preparing to crawl all over Google to figure out whether it is an abusive monopolist. It and other tech giants should be quaking in their fleece vests.
The launch of 60 Starlink satellites by Elon Musk’s SpaceX has grabbed the attention of people around the globe. With Musk planning for up to 12 000 satellites in low-Earth orbit, this fleet could forever change our view of the heavens.
