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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The environment department has turned down an application to moor a floating, gas-fired power plant in the port of Richards Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.
When Nvidia announced plans to buy ARM, the deal was more than just the chip industry’s largest-ever acquisition. Now its audacious plan is in peril.
South Africa is readying a mandatory vaccine policy and is set to implement it early next year, a senior labour union official said.
The battle between operators for the fixed-wireless home broadband market just stepped up a gear.
TFG – the retailer also known as The Foschini Group – has acquired Quench, a digital shopping platform and last-mile delivery provider.
South African publishers, including Media24, are taking Google and Meta Platforms to the Competition Commission, seeking compensation for use of their journalism.
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Private equity firm Thoma Bravo agreed to buy Sophos Group for $3.8-billion, taking the British cybersecurity firm private in the biggest takeover of a UK technology firm this year.
WeWork is considering a bailout that will hand control of the co-working giant to SoftBank Group, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Facebook’s effort to create a cryptocurrency was dealt a blow on Friday after several key partners, including Mastercard, Visa, eBay, Stripe and Mercado Pago, abandoned the project.
The US and China agreed on the outlines of a partial trade accord on Friday that President Donald Trump said he and his counterpart Xi Jinping could sign as soon as next month.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) ought to cut mobile termination rates in half, to 20c/minute, and do so at one fell swoop rather than using a “glide path” as it did when imposing previous cuts in the rates, says Telkom Mobile MD Attila Vitai. Termination
In 2010, when MultiChoice began work on its radically redesigned new personal video recorder (PVR) decoder, the DStv Explora, the premise was that it would be a “connected box” that would offer on-demand services over the Internet. The Naspers-owned pay-television operator had
