155 MultiChoice Group has not launched 4K-resolution content on its DStv Stream platform, despite a media report earlier on Thursday claiming that it had done so. Although the JSE-listed broadcaster has the…
Category: Tech
Your Wi-Fi router is about to start watching you
141 Imagine this: your Wi-Fi router knows when you’ve fallen down the stairs, whether you’re having trouble breathing and exactly how many times you’ve visited the loo today. It can also detect…
Google bets big on AI with new Pixel line-up
129 Brendan McDermid/Reuters Google has unveiled a new line-up of Pixel smartphones and gadgets, intensifying its efforts to embed artificial intelligence across a wide ecosystem of products. The products were launched at…
Upbeat Prosus plans R35-billion in asset sales
128 Fabricio Bloisi Dutch technology investor Prosus plans to raise US$2-billion (R35-billion) through asset sales in the near term, the company’s CEO said on Wednesday as he announced a 54% increase in…
Maziv says it’s ready to roll with new fibre builds
164 Maziv chairman Pieter Uys Last week’s decision by the competition appeal court to set aside an earlier ruling by the Competition Tribunal blocking Vodacom’s Maziv deal – allowing the merger to…
China may embrace stablecoins in major monetary pivot
166 China is considering allowing the usage of yuan-backed stablecoins for the first time to boost wider adoption of its currency globally, sources familiar with the matter said, in a major reversal…
M-Net pioneer Cobus Stofberg steps down from Naspers, Prosus boards
160 Cobus Stofberg in an undated file photograph, likely taken in the 1990s, on the roof of MultiChoice’s broadcast centre in Randburg, Johannesburg. Image: MultiChoice Group Cobus Stofberg, a veteran of television…
Checkers rolls out smart trolleys to kill the checkout queue
150 There’s no escaping the advance of technology, which is now coming to supermarket trolleys in South Africa through Shoprite Group-owned retail chain Checkers. The Checkers Xpress Trolley lets shoppers scan as…
Malatsi prioritising BEE policy review
229 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image c/o DCDT Government is prioritising a review of broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) rules on the licensing of telecoms companies, which could see companies like Elon…
MVNOs could wreck SA’s mobile market, MTN boss warns
142 MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has warned that discounted pricing by mobile virtual network operators could have adverse consequences for the entire mobile telecommunications industry if MVNOs continue to offer data…