Global demand for smartphones, PCs and gaming consoles is expected to shrink this year amid surging RAM prices.
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As storage prices fall, South Africa’s renewables are pivoting from variable output to dependable, dispatchable power.
Astronomers have solved a cosmic mystery surrounding one of the most extreme stars ever observed.
South Africa is endowed with minerals needed by the tech industry, but they are not being exploited to their full potential.
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In a blurring of boundaries between banks and telecoms operators, Telkom has launched a mobile point-of-sale solution aimed at SMMEs.
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Justice minister Ronald Lamola insists members of the Gupta family will be extradited from Dubai and be forced to explain their actions.
Fintech company Yoco has acquired software development agency Nona Digital for an undisclosed sum.
South Africa’s civil aviation regulator grounded Comair’s planes indefinitely on Sunday over unresolved safety issues.
The auction of mobile broadband spectrum will continue into next week after already raising more than the R8-billion expected.
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An American man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see if the world is round has died after his home-built rocket blasted off into the desert sky before plunging back down to earth.
The White House plans to hold a conference with Huawei’s rivals to try to accelerate development of affordable competing 5G wireless technology, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser said.
US banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co is broadening its perspective on blockchain technology to show how digital money will change the financial world.
HP, fighting off a hostile acquisition bid by Xerox, has adopted a shareholder rights plan that would make the takeover more difficult to carry out.
Telkom’s second attempt in seven years at acquiring Business Connexion (BCX), the listed IT services group, will probably get the nod from South Africa’s competition authorities, analysts believe. Telkom on Thursday announced it had made a R2,7bn all-cash offer to buy out the JSE-listed IT services company. In 2004, Telkom bid
After a lengthy pilot project, Standard Bank has commercially launched SnapScan, a smartphone-based payments system that removes the need for consumers to carry either cash or bank cards, allowing them to make payments using only their phones. Consumers from any bank, not only
