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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South Africa’s national state of disaster, in place for more than two years in response to Covid-19, ended at midnight on Monday.
RCS, the consumer finance arm of French banking group BNP Paribas, has acquired South African online credit provider Mobicred.
First National Bank has launched a new range of “lifestyle solutions” it says are designed to help and reward customers in areas beyond financial services.
Operating hours at home affairs offices will be extended to 6.30pm on Monday after the department’s systems went offline nationwide on Friday.
Johannesburg’s electricity infrastructure is being pilfered by armed criminal syndicates “on an industrial scale”, MMC Michael Sun said.
MultiChoice must negotiate a commercial agreement with the SABC to carry the public broadcaster’s channels on DStv, communications regulator Icasa has decided.
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Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said he’s aware of the potential for the US to tighten restrictions on the company. China wouldn’t tolerate such action and it would irrevocably damage the global supply chain.
Zoom Video Communications was sued by a user who claims the popular video-conferencing service is illegally disclosing personal information.
With its 175-acre campus in Cupertino, California, and several dozen more offices across the rest of the world, Apple wasn’t designed as a work-at-home company. That all changed about three weeks ago.
Having our normal daily lives upended by the coronavirus has heightened the demand for entertainment – and not just Netflix. “The virus is forcing us to use the Internet as it was always meant to be used.”
Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Alcatel-Lucent, announced this week that it has developed a prototype technology, called XG-Fast, which it used to transmit speeds of up to 10Gbit/s over traditional copper phone lines. The technology, which is expected to be launched commercially
Capital Eye Investments, the company that emerged out of what was left of JSE-listed UCS Group after Business Connexion acquired its services businesses four years ago, plans to launch a private equity fund to invest in start-ups and established technology businesses. Capital Eye
