DJ Zinhle’s Bestie Connect is a prepaid mobile network on MTN, aimed squarely at her followers.
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Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
MTN won or shared 10 of 16 Opensignal awards to keep its best-network title, though Vodacom leads on 5G speed.
Democrats’ midterm election sweep have sent shares in US tech giants soaring.
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The decision by the Competition Tribunal to block Vodacom’s acquisition of a co-controlling stake in fibre operator Maziv is headed to the competition appeal court.
The broadcasters’ fight over channel removals and restrictions on sports sublicensing agreements has been settled.
The owner of Pep and Ackermans accounts for more than seven in 10 prepaid phone sales in retail channels in South Africa.
Financial support is very welcome but regulatory intervention is needed to deal sustainably with market failure.
Huawei has launched the Mate 70 series, the first smartphones from the company that don’t run Android.
Some argue only biological brains can host minds. This and more in today’s edition of Bookmarks.
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Qualcomm is taking another run at the market for server processors, betting it can decrease its reliance on smartphones.
China lashed out at the $52-billion programme to expand American chip-making, saying it violates fair market principles.
Tencent Holdings logged its first-ever decline in quarterly revenue, becoming the latest victim of a worsening Chinese economy.
Mounting concern over semiconductor demand is sending shudders through Asia’s high-tech exporters, which historically serve as a bellwether for the international economy.
Nectome promises to preserve the brains of terminally ill people in order to turn them into computer simulations – at some point in the future when such a thing is possible. It’s a start-up that’s easy to mock
Soon after I enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge University in 1964, I encountered a fellow student, two years ahead of me in his studies, who was unsteady on his feet and spoke with great difficulty. This was
