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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Some specialist apps are in a price league of their own. TechCentral rounded up the world’s most expensive smartphone apps.
Hollywood writers have for decades penned sci-fi scripts featuring machines taking over the world. Now they are fighting to make sure robots do not take their jobs.
Kalane Rampai has been appointed as MD of Microsoft South Africa, replacing Lillian Barnard, who becomes president of Microsoft Africa.
Planetworld CEO Maurice van Heerden tells the TechCentral Show about how four brothers built a powerful specialist in audio electronics in South Africa.
Massmart has appointed Thembani Biyam as vice president of group e-commerce for business-to-consumer platforms.
The board of Vodafone Group has chosen 29-year company veteran Margherita Della Valle to be its next CEO.
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After surpassing Toyota as the world’s most valuable automaker, Tesla has taken time out to poke fun at the company’s naysayers – with sales of red satin shorts.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to begin phasing out the use of Chinese tech giant Huawei’s technology in Britain’s 5G network as soon as this year, according to a report.
Zoom, one of the few success stories of the Covid-19 pandemic, now faces a new competitor in an app backed by Asia’s wealthiest person Mukesh Ambani.
Intel’s investment arm will pay some $255-million for a small stake in Reliance Industries’ digital unit Jio Platforms, the latest in a slew of share sales that have helped the Indian conglomerate pay down debt.
The name came as a surprise, although it wasn’t the surprise watchers had been expecting: the latest version of Microsoft Windows had been codenamed Threshold, and it was thought this would become its official name, rather than the more predictable Windows 9
Commercial broadcaster e.tv has raised concerns about the state of television in South Africa, pointing to what it says is the long-term decline of free-to-air TV, especially in the independent commercial free-to-air segment
