This year marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the first Back to the Future movie and one can’t help but feel a bit like Marty McFly when speaking to an animated Michael Ettershank, the “Doc” at Robotscience, a training facility at the University
A project by retailer Ackermans to save electricity and reduce costs landed it a hot prize at the African Utility Week in Cape Town on Wednesday. The retailer was awarded the energy and water efficiency project of the year for its
It’s a case of second time lucky for Telkom and Business Connexion (BCX). The Competition Commission announced on Thursday that it has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that the
Minister of public enterprises Lynne Brown ruled out the privatisation of basic services — such as the provision of electricity and water — and said load shedding will continue for three more years. Until the “end state” of Eskom is clarified
An unidentified hacker group has made most of the South African Press Association’s archives publicly available and searchable for free, violating the copyright of new owner Sekunjalo Investment Holdings. The group says
I’m a security-conscious guy, user of antivirus software and sensible passwords. I still remember my first virus infection, something called Pong or Ping Pong. It spawned bouncing balls all over my CGA screen. For the longest time we thought it was
Eskom’s “big data” scientists are changing the way its decision makers operate, with mechanisms starting to predict when and where technical faults occur, delegates at the African Utility Week in Cape Town heard on Thursday. Speaking about the
MTN is below par when it comes to customer satisfaction, while Telkom’s mobile arm is a leader among mobile operators, new research purports to show. The South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) surveyed more than
The leafy Johannesburg suburbs of Saxonwold and Parkwood are next in line to get fibre to the home (FTTH) from telecommunications start-up Vumatel, it was announced on Thursday. The Saxonwold and Parkwood Residents
Telecommunications operators that have chosen to be more than utility providers of connectivity alone are fighting a battle to remain strategically relevant. The story goes that digital disruption has rendered them, their technology and their systems to the role
