Former communications minister Dina Pule presided over one of the ICT sector’s darkest chapters.
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Pick n Pay’s asap! app is adding Penny, a Gemini-powered assistant that builds your basket by conversation.
The internet industry has warned that blocking illegal betting sites is easy to dodge, risky and potentially unlawful.
Operators must warn subscribers twice before deactivating a dormant Sim under new Icasa numbering rules.
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TechCentral asked Sabric CEO Nischal Mewalall about banking app kidnappings and how people can protect themselves.
Sentech interim CEO Tebogo Leshope said the SABC’s unwillingness or inability to pay its signal distribution fees is of “great concern”.
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A few nights ago, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun announced on Twitter that he had paid half-a-million dollars for a picture of a rock with laser eyes. It wasn’t even a good picture of a rock.
Samsung Group will invest ₩240-trillion (R3.1-trillion) in the next three years to expand its footprint in biopharmaceuticals, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and robotics.
DiDi Global has suspended plans to expand in Europe partly because of concerns over how the Chinese ride-hailing company handles passenger data, according to a person familiar with the matter.
It sounds implausible: a technology that could unleash nearly unlimited clean energy. Yet sustainable nuclear fusion, long hypothesised, took a step closer to reality this month.
Encrypted digital television set-top boxes risk being expensive for government and burdening poorer South Africans with defunct technology, says pay-TV provider MultiChoice. Set-top boxes are key to South Africa’s
The department of communications is confident of winning its constitutional court appeal against encryption of set-top boxes. The supreme court of appeal ruled recently that the decision by communications minister































