Legislative changes and lower-cost infrastructure are driving the advance of cryptocurrencies into mainstream payments.
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Electricity market liberalisation, new trading rules and grid reform will define renewable energy progress in 2026.
South Africa’s latest trial of digital sound broadcasting – using DRM technology – is set to be launched next month.
The EU has formally rejected a proposal from operators that big tech companies should help pay for infrastructure.
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Seacom has agreed to buy two businesses from JSE-listed EOH Holdings, Network Solutions (EOH-NS) and Hymax, for R144.9-million.
The Protection of Personal Information Act came into full force last year, yet spam calls have not stopped plaguing South Africans. There is a way to fight back.
The SABC has apologised to Khumbudzo Ntshavheni over its media statement last month that criticised her plan to switch off analogue terrestrial television broadcasts by 31 March.
MTN Group on Wednesday moved to reassure nervous investors that a crackdown by Nigerian authorities on unregistered phone lines will not have a huge adverse impact.
More engagement with the fintech industry is needed before distributed ledger technology can be incorporated into South Africa’s financial markets, according to a new report.
Microsoft is hoping a partial return to the office will spur sales of its latest Windows operating system.
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Supercomputers are playing their part in urgent research into the novel coronavirus, which could help speed up the development of treatments.
Samsung Electronics’ better-than-expected profit revives hopes that a surge in Internet usage from people sheltering in place during the Covid-19 pandemic will help make up for a drop-off in demand for smartphones.
The cryptocurrency industry’s struggles to attract mainstream investment continued last year as global fund raising and deals both dried up, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
A Lisbon court has ordered the “preventive seizure” of a 26% stake in Portuguese telecommunications company NOS SGPS that’s controlled by Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman.
The current debate over the right to be forgotten, spurred by a European Union ruling that allows people to stop certain Web pages from appearing in search results, is proof – if further proof was required – of the distinct form of public life that is being created by the Internet. Our digital identities are shaped by how
Mobile phones have become such an important part of our daily lives that they’ve started adopting our microorganisms, according to research published recently in PeerJ. James Meadow and colleagues from University of Oregon used DNA sequencing to compare bacteria living on
