Smart meter installations are lagging sharply, undermining Eskom’s ability to end load reduction timeously.
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AI data centres are starving the rest of the market of RAM and other components, pushing up the price of PCs, servers and everyday electronics.
Short-form content is developing as a new paradigm that traditional broadcasters and streamers are taking seriously.
Trade minister Parks Tau has appointed a new SEZ advisory board, blending government, business and technology expertise.
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Zimbabwe’s central bank is exploring the use of a digital currency rather than allowing cryptocurrencies as legal tender.
South African hospitals are bracing for a surge in admissions as the new Omicron variant drives a sharp rise in coronavirus infections.
Bitcoin plunged along with other cryptocurrencies on Saturday, in another indication of the risk aversion sweeping across financial markets.
Eskom will implement rotational power cuts from 9pm on Saturday due to “generation capacity constraints”.
Papers before the Western Cape high court have cast doubt on claims that thousands of jobs will be lost if the controversial R4.5-billion property development does not go ahead.
New South African regulations dealing with electronic waste have come into full force, and companies that fail to comply face the threat of hefty fines or even jail time.
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Netflix is selling bonds as it continues to bolster its original content in the face of expanding competition.
The head of Facebook’s libra project said that it could use cryptocurrencies based on national currencies like the dollar, rather than the synthetic one it initially proposed.
Hikvision warned it may lose customers in overseas markets because of its US blacklisting, underscoring the extent to which curbs on the sale of American technology may hurt the world’s largest video surveillance business.
Mark Hurd, who was CEO of three major technology companies including Oracle, has died. He was 62.
From applications to help people learn new languages to online training portals for bankers to learn new office processes, “gamification” is in fashion. Some critics ask whether it’s as effective a model for learning as its pundits claim, but one South African company believes the results speak for themselves
Communications minister Yunus Carrim plans to hold a high-level meeting between broadcasters in mid-September, to be mediated by an independent third party, in an effort to resolve a simmering dispute over whether government-subsidised set-top boxes for digital terrestrial
