Bitcoin continues to smash records, hitting a series of record highs in just one weekend. The cryptocurrency hit an all-time high of just over $4 225 on Sunday as the bull run played out across global bitcoin exchanges. In South Africa
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Bill Gates has made his largest gift since the turn of the century, giving away Microsoft shares that accounted for 5% of his fortune, the world’s biggest. The billionaire donated 64m of the software maker’s shares valued at $4.6bn
There is little argument that when communications regulator Icasa cut mobile call termination rates – the per-minute charges operators levy on each other to carry calls between their networks – there was
Alibaba and Tencent can count themselves among the world’s costliest technology companies after a stellar run. To justify those lofty valuations, China’s two largest corporations have to deliver on some of the riskiest bets they’ve
Bitcoin soared past $4 000 for the first time on growing optimism faster transaction times will hasten the spread of the cryptocurrency. The largest digital tender jumped to a peak of $4 125.17 on Monday,
Lycamobile, one of the world’s largest mobile virtual network operators, has firmed up its plans to launch services in South Africa, piggybacking on Cell C’s network. TechCentral first reported in March that Lycamobile
Sony. Netflix. And now, HBO. While the 2014 hacking at Sony Pictures pushed entertainment giants to take computer security more seriously, recent incidents have exposed weaknesses throughout Hollywood’s food chain
Icasa’s move to regulate what it terms “out-of-bundle billing practices” and “expiry of data practices” is years overdue. The regulator wants to get rid of the typical 30-day expiry period for mobile data bundles, which has been a
The GSMA has blasted the wholesale open-access network model favoured by the South African government for the mobile industry, saying network competition has a proven track record in delivering
Not since utility computing became on-demand computing became grid computing became cloud computing has there been more fuss about a technology concept that is 40 years old. The Internet of things, once known