techcentral.co.zaadded August 2026
TechCentralby Ascent Technology24d ago
For most of the last decade, Microsoft made it inexpensive to wait. Each time a SQL Server version reached the end of its extended support – 2008, 2012, 2014 – the same escape hatch was available.
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen24d ago
South Africans paid R26.92/l for 95 unleaded inland when prices rose on 2 September. Average Brent crude climbed to US$87.88 from $82.37 in the review period, on US-Iran tensions and renewed fears...
TechCentralby Paratus Group24d ago
Internet Technologies Angola (ITA) presented its OneWeb connectivity solution at the Angola Oil & Gas 2026 conference this week (9-10 September) to demonstrate reliable connectivity solutions that...
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod24d ago
The criminal group behind the June breach at MIP Holdings is now extorting South African insurers directly after taking a ransom payment from the software supplier in exchange for an undertaking to...
TechCentralby Agency Staff24d ago
Anthropic said Claude “leads” 26% of the AI research and development work inside the company, part of new measures that it will publish regularly to show outsiders how quickly AI is building the...
TechCentralby Publishared25d ago
Every year, technology vendors set aside market development funds (MDF) for the IT channel partners who sell on their behalf. Most of it never does what it was meant to do.
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen25d ago
Government has pitched offshore wind as a way to power Cape Town’s growing AI data centre industry, but the laws and regulations required do not yet exist and the costs are enormous.
TechCentralby Paratus Group25d ago
Paratus South Africa is backing the Revived Pulse Foundation for a third consecutive year as a principal event partner for Le Tour de Spirit of the Great Heart, the foundation’s annual charity...
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen25d ago
The City of Cape Town is drafting new development guidelines for large data centre applications, its first public acknowledgement that the approvals process needs changing, and has confirmed that...
TechCentralby Martin Dippenaar25d ago
Many South African companies are walking blindly into an unhealthy and unsustainable dependence on public large language models without understanding the commercial and governance risks.
TechCentralby Agency Staff25d ago
The US International Development Finance Corporation said on Wednesday it would invest up to US$155-million in African digital infrastructure provider Wiocc Group, underscoring Washington’s support...
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen26d ago
South Africa’s Chinese car boom is usually explained with a price list. But that explanation has stopped being sufficient.
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod26d ago
Octotel and MetroFibre Networx are actively assessing a combination that would create South Africa’s third-largest fibre network operator, Octotel CEO Trevor van Zyl has told the TechCentral Show.
TechCentralby Agency Staff26d ago
Kenya’s government will appeal the court ruling that ordered the cancellation of the deal in which it sold an extra 15% stake in Safaricom to Vodacom, finance minister John Mbadi said on Wednesday.
TechCentralby Agency Staff26d ago
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said competition and liability give AI companies enough reason to act individually on safety, appearing to break from calls by the leaders of top AI firms for a...
TechCentralby Agency Staff26d ago
US secretary of state Marco Rubio has announced a new visa restriction policy targeting some foreign nationals from South Africa as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to cool ties...
TechCentralby Editor26d ago
The US senate failed on Tuesday to advance comprehensive cryptocurrency legislation backed by President Donald Trump in a major blow for digital asset companies and Republicans who had championed...
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod27d ago
Kenya’s high court has declared the government’s sale of a 15% stake in Safaricom to Vodacom unconstitutional, null and void, and ordered the shares restored to the state — 11 weeks after the...
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod27d ago
Personal information belonging to the customers of roughly 45 insurance companies was taken from IT service provider MIP Holdings in June, after intruders spent about three weeks inside a support...
TechCentralby Agency Staff27d ago
Taiwan’s MediaTek unveiled a new smartphone chip on Tuesday made using TSMC’s most advanced manufacturing process as it goes after the premium handset market with silicon able to run more AI...
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