A tiny cube, slightly smaller than a loaf of bread, is the new manna to heaven, as the number of nanosatellites being hurled into orbit is increasing substantially. Nanosatellites are small satellites weighing between 1kg and 10kg. CubeSats are box-shaped
Young black South Africans with entrepreneurial ambitions may well find that studying computer programming or software developing provides the springboard they need to grab the eye of a venture capital funder. With an inherent bias towards
Vodacom has reported a 4% decline in full-year headline earnings per share as the mobile group faced big cuts in wholesale inter-network call rates, exchange range volatility and increased retail price competition in its key markets. Net profit declined
It’s been 50 years since Bill Venter, then a 33-year-old telecommunications engineer, founded Allied Electric, the company that would go on to become the Altron group. Alongside publication of its results for the year ended February 2015, Altron
New regulations are to be introduced at the beginning of July for the use of drones, the South African Civil Aviation Authority announced on Sunday. “I have the pleasure of announcing that South Africa
It’s not often that a tent-pole summer film as bonkers as Mad Max: Fury Road comes along, and that’s enough reason to celebrate the return of the Australian road warrior after a 30-year absence from cinema screens. Helmed by George Miller
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele said on Friday that government’s new National ICT Forum is “not a talk shop”, deflecting criticism earlier this week by the Democratic Alliance that the event, launched on Johannesburg’s
Fewer than one in 10 matriculants scored more than 60% for maths or science in last year’s final exams, the National Advisory Council on Innovation (Naci) said on Friday. Azar Jammine, Naci’s project leader for monitoring, evaluation and
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
