258 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Kent Nishimura/Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday dismissed concern about an end to a spending boom on artificial intelligence chips, projecting opportunities will expand into a…
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Sarb weighs stablecoins and CBDCs as digital money gains global momentum
248 Stablecoins and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are gaining traction worldwide, and the South African Reserve Bank has told TechCentral it is watching the developments closely as it considers if –…
South Africa’s best mobile networks
432 MTN South Africa has come out tops in independent network ratings agency OpenSignal’s latest mobile experience report, beating its rivals in a number of categories including “download speed”, “5G availability” and…
Mouton Foundation launches R7.2-billion Curro take-private
249 The Jannie Mouton Foundation has made a R7.2-billion take-private offer to acquire all the issued shares of private schools group Curro Holdings, pitching the deal as both a premium for investors…
Fingerprints, facial scans now mandatory for Sassa grants
206 Social grants agency Sassa will introduce mandatory biometric enrolment for beneficiaries at its offices from 1 September. Until now the system has only applied to applicants for the Social Relief of…
DFA claims ‘world first’ 1.6Tbit/s fibre trial in South Africa
209 Maziv subsidiary Dark Fibre Africa has quadrupled the capacity achieved in an earlier test, transmitting 1.6Tbit/s on a single wavelength over a 40km stretch of its core network between Isando and…
Apple to launch iPhone 17 line-up on 9 September
237 Renders suggest this is the new iPhone 17 Pro, which is said to include a new orange colourway Apple will host its annual iPhone event on 9 September, where the company…
Cell C comeback supercharges Blue Label
282 JSE-listed Blue Label Telecoms has taken a decisive step in its troubled, long-running association with Cell C, reversing a multibillion-rand impairment previously recognised against its stake in the mobile operator. The…
Why modernising while migrating to the cloud is critical
221 If I had a penny for every company migrating to the cloud, I’d be rich. I’d be wealthy if the pennies were for every migration that had its cloud costs explode…
TCS | Maziv goes massive: CEO Dietlof Mare on Vumatel’s big roll-out plans
289 Maziv, the company that owns Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa, plans to spend R12-billion over the next five years as its ramps its deployment of fibre infrastructure across South Africa. Poised…