Low-cost uncapped fibre is reshaping South Africa’s broadband market, promising to narrow the digital divide.
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“Q-Day” may be a years away, but there’s an urgent need to get serious about quantum security today, experts have warned.
Chinese vehicle brands are no longer just disrupting South Africa’s new-car market.
A severe geomagnetic storm has reached Earth, with Sansa warning of elevated space-weather risks on Tuesday.
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Small businesses, still reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, are now under further strain during the worst power cuts in over two years.
After successfully halting analogue switch-off on 30 June, e.tv has said it knows it needs to vacate the analogue spectrum bands as soon as possible.
The South African market has evolved, and continues to evolve, differently from many other places in the world.
Eskom said there was still a high level of absenteeism among its workforce due to a strike and that it could take weeks to clear a maintenance backlog.
Eskom is offering workers a 7% wage increase after the utility lost units during illegal protests that plunged South Africa into the worst blackouts since 2019, sources said.
Eskom and trade unions cited progress in talks to end a strike that has caused South Africa’s worst power cuts in more than two years.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government will ban Huawei from Britain’s 5G network by ordering operators to remove its equipment by 2027.
It was sold as an all-or-nothing moonshot into space, the boldest pay package in corporate history. Now, with Tesla’s stock on a seemingly unstoppable rise, Elon Musk is poised to collect $2.4-billion.
Tesla’s eye-popping run has left stock prognosticators in the dust, brought smaller imitators along for the ride and triggered a race by entrants new and old to cash in.
Apple is getting close to overtaking Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company in market valuation, a milestone that would make the technology giant the world’s largest company by that measure.
UK videogames industry body Tiga has called for the products to be treated like other creative industries such as television or film, rather than mere “software”. There is a good argument for this. Games have been part of human civilisation for thousands of years. Egyptians played the board game
Here they are, TechCentral’s South African Newsmakers of 2014. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year, for good reasons and bad. Also, check out our International Newsmakers
