Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
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Higher turnout suggests ANC voters showed up but backed other parties, says Oxford Economics Africa.
Gene editing and AI are behind several of this year’s medical advances, but not all.
EXSA, already licensed to trade locally, now wants to move electricity across Southern African borders.
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Basil Sgourdos will retire as chief financial officer of both Naspers and Prosus at the end of November.
Robbie Venter, the former CEO of Altron and the son of South African business pioneer Bill Venter, has died.
MTN Group is going through an exceptionally difficult patch, with Nigeria set to drag it into a huge interim loss.
These are the local and global technology stories that caught the TechCentral team’s eye over the past 24 hours.
A botched platform designed to showcase apps developed by small South African businesses may get a new lease on life.
For US chip giant Intel, the darling of the computer age before it fell on hard times, things might have been quite different.
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Huawei Technologies will spend R9.5-billion to build a new headquarters and R&D centre for its digital power unit.
Elon Musk accused the SEC of harassing them with an “endless” and “unrelenting” investigation to punish him for being an outspoken critic of the government.
Taiwan has proposed a new law to prevent China from stealing its chip technology, amid rising concern in Taipei that Beijing is stepping up its economic espionage.
Nvidia failed to impress investors with its latest forecast, a sign of the lofty expectations for the most valuable US chip maker.
A hacker who has unsuccessfully tried to hold Netflix to ransom has achieved an unexpected result: his failure shows that subscription-based business models in content distribution is making piracy pointless. Intellectual property
Microsoft has already cracked the professional and creative markets with inventive tablets and a desktop that turns into a virtual drafting table. Now it’s chasing another category many believe is Apple’s to lose: the
