MTN won or shared 10 of 16 Opensignal awards to keep its best-network title, though Vodacom leads on 5G speed.
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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.
Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
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The presidency says South Africa is moving quickly from a centrally planned energy system to a decentralised, liberalised electricity market.
Difficulty in repatriating money from Nigeria, among other factors, will hurt MultiChoice Group’s full-year financial results.
Volvo has made a significant entry into the compact and “affordable” electric SUV market with the long-awaited EX30.
MTN South Africa is actively investigating off-grid renewable energy alternatives, including windmill-powered base stations.
Whether a new X platform marks “where the treasure is”, only Elon’s courage will tell.
From mid-June, gamers in South Africa will finally get their hands on the much-awaited Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming device.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth passed $100-billion for the first time on Thursday after Facebook hit a record on optimism about the release of its TikTok competitor Reels.
Washington’s plan to ban certain technologies of Chinese origin is a sign of “madness” in US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, China’s state-backed tabloid Global Times wrote in an editorial on Thursday.
The Trump administration’s move to ban US residents from doing business with Tencent’s WeChat app rippled through Chinese markets, erasing $46-billion from the Internet giant’s market value.
Facebook on Wednesday for the first time took down a post by US President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus.
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
