Rain’s newly launched unlimited mobile plans come with a high-spec handset – and plenty of fine print.
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Capitec’s premium valuation rests on three compounding bets. All three are working – but each is now under pressure.
Revolving-door ministers and ad hoc political interventions left the State IT Agency unable to function.
Google’s research suggests quantum computers could break crypto’s encryption sooner than anyone previously expected.
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Cape Town TV has warned of serious implications if communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni pushes ahead with analogue switch-off on 31 March.
Regulations for the national state of disaster to deal with the electricity-supply emergency have been gazetted. Here’s what they say.
Elon Musk has regained his spot as the world’s richest person, after briefly losing the title to France’s Bernard Arnault.
MultiChoice Group, working with the police and customs authorities, has destroyed 5 000 counterfeit DStv remote controls.
Satoshi Nakamoto would be proud. Adolescent bitcoin may finally be repaying its creator’s faith.
One of the toughest jobs in communications in South Africa just became available.
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Walmart said it was joining Microsoft in a bid for social media company TikTok’s US assets, revealing its plans hours after CEO Kevin Mayer said he would step down.
For at least two years, I’ve been calling out Xiaomi for pretending be an Internet player when it really just makes smartphones. It took a global pandemic for the Chinese company to finally realise its vision, sort of.
TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer has left the company, less than three months after he joined the hit short-video app, and US GM Vanessa Pappas will replace him on an interim basis.
Telkom Kenya has called on the industry regulator to ensure a level playing field, weeks after the company abandoned plans to combine operations with Airtel Africa’s domestic unit.
Eye tracking devices sound a lot more like expensive pieces of scientific research equipment than joysticks — yet if the announcements about the latest Assassin’s Creed game…
Shortly after 9/11, the South African government introduced measures to fight terrorism in the country, including a bill allowing the monitoring and interception of communications. It became the
































