Apple is also reportedly developing an AI-powered wearable pin that is equipped with multiple cameras.
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South Africa is endowed with minerals needed by the tech industry, but they are not being exploited to their full potential.
As storage prices fall, South Africa’s renewables are pivoting from variable output to dependable, dispatchable power.
Global demand for smartphones, PCs and gaming consoles is expected to shrink this year amid surging RAM prices.
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Ethiopia is suspending the tender process for its second telecommunications licence and will relaunch it in the “near future”, the government said.
Cryptocurrencies had a blockbuster year in 2021 by almost any measure.
South Africans contracting Covid-19 in the current wave of infections are 80% less likely to be hospitalised if they catch the Omicron variant, compared with other strains, according to a new study.
North West will on Wednesday become the third province in South Africa to have its analogue television signals switched off.
Naspers Foundry has invested R54-million in car subscription company Planet42 as part of a R91-million total equity funding round.
Massmart on Tuesday warned of a bigger annual loss, due to store damages and lost trading income suffered as a result of the July looting.
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Google has agreed to buy smartwatch maker Fitbit for $2.1-billion in cash, a move that could shore up the Internet giant’s hardware business while also potentially increasing antitrust scrutiny.
HAn open letter has been posted to Huawei’s internal messaging board containing a sharp rebuke of the company’s overtime policy and alleging executives are covering up the full extent of extra work that’s happening.
When Nokia cut its outlook and halted the dividend last week, analysts blamed the company’s under-investment in research and development, among other things. Add internal politics to the list.
Apple executives put aside their typical praise of the iPhone’s sleek design and breakthrough technology on Wednesday for more mundane topics such as installment plans, trade-in programmes and giveaways.
Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has slammed a confidential deal struck between the SABC and MultiChoice that prohibits the public broadcaster from offering any of its channels over a television platform that uses encryption technology. E.tv described the move as
South Africa’s online advertising industry can look forward to substantial growth in coming years thanks in part to cheaper smartphones and data. This is according to PwC’s latest annual “South African Entertainment and Media Outlook” report. Unsurprisingly


































