A new chief digital officer and strategy head complete six senior appointments at the troubled State IT Agency this financial year.
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US President Donald Trump says the FBI is looking into Jensen Huang’s affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
MTN says it and Cell C have not agreed on certain terms of their commercial relationship.
ACT’s Nomvuyiso Batyi explains why South Africa’s telcos won’t back Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
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Online shopping in South Africa will reach R55-billion in 2022, a 30% increase from the R42.3-billion the previous year, according to new research.
Through another auction, Icasa plans to license additional spectrum that’s suitable for 4G, 5G and future mobile broadband technologies.
The change, long resisted by Apple but now being forced on it, could be a boon not only for iPhone users but for the company, too.
South Africa will have a robust electric-power supply system only once its electricity generation, transmission, distribution and control functions are separated and independently run.
The top industry executive has warned that extreme load shedding is having a severe impact the telecommunications sector and on consumers.
Bitcoin ends the year slumped in an alleyway, robbed of its cocktail of cheap money and leveraged bets, and shunned by the establishment.
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Boris Johnson insisted the decision to allow Huawei to play a limited role in the UK’s 5G infrastructure would not “imperil our relationship” with the US as he faced a backlash from Tory MPs and US Republicans.
Apple is still reaping huge profits from the iPhone while mining more moneymaking opportunities from the growing popularity of its smartwatch, digital services and wireless earbuds.
Britain will let Huawei Technologies play a limited role in building the country’s next-generation mobile phone networks, denying a long-running attempt by the US to have the Chinese tech giant barred.
Apple has asked suppliers to make as many as 80 million iPhones in the first half of this year, an increase of more than 10% from the previous year’s output, the Nikkei newspaper reported.
Cabinet’s decision this month to mandate the use of a control system in the set-top boxes government will subsidise for poorer households has led to a great deal of confusion in South Africa’s broadcasting industry. The decision largely went in favour of e.tv, which has
Here they are, TechCentral’s South African Newsmakers of 2013. 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
