The US Air Force has delayed the launch of its first Global Positioning System III satellite from this month to October at the earliest as it reviews the upgraded rocket that Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to use to boost it into
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Adobe Systems has agreed to buy e-commerce company Magento for US$1.7bn in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the digital commerce industry from Salesforce.com and Oracle. The Photoshop software provider is making
Sony is buying EMI Music Publishing, getting its hands on a catalogue of 2.1m songs from Beyonce, Carole King and other artists as it embarks on a new growth plan built on content and services. The Japanese company will
Intel, the biggest maker of computer processors, said it found another way to attack computers related to the chip security flaws announced earlier this year. The means to protect against the vulnerability is already in place
Growth in South Africa’s IT sector will far outperform the rest of the economy, driven by the shift to cloud computing, according to new research from International Data Corp. In a presentation at Microsoft in
It probably happens every minute of the day: a little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken of her. Today, thanks to smartphones and other digital cameras, we can see snapshots immediately, whether we
Netflix does not pose a threat to job creation in South Africa’s sector and the “hype” surrounding the US online streaming service is “exaggerated”. That’s according to Surie Ramasary, CEO of Black, the new streaming
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to the European parliament on Tuesday on the Cambridge Analytica scandal will be broadcast live on the Internet. Zuckerberg agreed to the Web feed after
Sony is done working for peanuts in the hardware business. Kenichiro Yoshida, who took over as CEO in April, is set to unveil a three-year plan on Tuesday that embraces Sony’s growing reliance on income from gaming