Huawei's Mate 90 bets on 3D chip design to get around US curbs
TechCentralby Agency Staff·11d ago
Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 90 smartphone series on Thursday, betting on its in-house operating system and a redesigned chip architecture to boost performance in the face of US curbs on...
BMW restructuring plan bets on AI and new models
TechCentralby Agency Staff·11d ago
BMW has set out a restructuring plan on Wednesday centred on AI, management cuts and two new model launches as the German luxury automaker seeks to restore investor confidence after a string of...
A shrinking JSE goes hunting for tech SMEs
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·12d ago
The JSE and government’s Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) have launched a four-month pilot to prepare 10 small and medium-sized technology enterprises to raise capital – without giving them...
Apple's next big category is the smart home - and it has a launch date
TechCentralby Agency Staff·12d ago
Apple plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on 13 October with a new hub code-named J490, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
MTN Uganda and Huawei bring LinkHome to the MyMTN app
TechCentralby Huawei South Africa·12d ago
MTN Uganda has partnered with Huawei to improve the home broadband experience through LinkHome, a smart home management application now fully integrated into the MyMTN app.
Africa's internet bridge to the US gets an upgrade
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·12d ago
Angola Cables will upgrade the two subsea cables that link Africa with Brazil and the US, using equipment from US networking group Ciena, the companies said on Tuesday.
How AI voice reduces cost and improves performance in South African contact centres
TechCentralby 1Stream·12d ago
The contact centre has become the most expensive place to answer a simple question. A customer calls to check the status of an order, confirm a balance or reschedule a delivery.
The case for regulating cybersecurity service providers in Africa
TechCentralby CyberM8·12d ago
You hire a cybersecurity company to protect your organisation. You give its team access to your networks, systems, security architecture and, in some cases, highly sensitive information.
Why school fees keep rising faster than inflation
TechCentralby CambriLearn·12d ago
On 4 September, the Competition Commission published its third Cost of Living Report. Between January 2020 and July 2026, public primary school fees rose 46% and public secondary fees 51%, against...
Capitec's non-bank bet is paying off, big time
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·12d ago
Capitec’s fintech business – value-added services including prepaid airtime, data, electricity and money transfers, plus its Capitec Connect mobile service – contributed R2.7-billion to group...
Mustek profit soars even as gross margin shrinks
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·12d ago
Mustek’s earnings nearly tripled in the year to end-June 2026, but the JSE-listed technology distributor made less gross profit from selling its products than it did a year earlier, and the cash...
OpenAI launches always-on dots agents to take on Meta
TechCentralby Agency Staff·12d ago
OpenAI on Tuesday unveiled always-on agents called “dots” that chase user goals across apps on their own, deepening its push into the lucrative enterprise market and pitting it against Meta in the...
Ternus plots a faster, leaner Apple
TechCentralby Agency Staff·12d ago
Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, is weighing a broad overhaul of the iPhone maker aimed at sharpening its engineering focus, introducing products more frequently and creating a leaner organisation...
Should South Africa ban ransomware payments?
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·12d ago
Richard Firth has paid a ransom and seen what it bought. Now the MIP Holdings CEO wants South Africa to outlaw such payments.
MTN loses bid to halt US Anti-Terrorism Act claims
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod·12d ago
MTN Group has lost a bid to overturn, or immediately appeal, a US court ruling allowing claims against it under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) to proceed, clearing the way for two of the cases to...
South Africa now hosts world's fourth-largest Comic Con
TechCentralby Tadek Szutowicz·13d ago
When Comic Con Africa launched in 2018, organisers faced an immediate surge in local demand for a large-scale pop culture and gaming convention.
Ease of doing business takes centre stage at GEC+Africa
TechCentralby GEC+Africa·13d ago
The need to make it easier to start, operate and grow a business in South Africa took centre stage on the second and final day of the 2026 Global Entrepreneurship Congress Africa (GEC+Africa), with...
Standard Bank and Huawei forge strategic cloud partnership
TechCentralby Huawei South Africa·13d ago
Standard Bank has deepened its strategic technology collaboration with Huawei as the group accelerates the modernisation of its banking platforms to support growth, innovation and greater financial...
Electric delivery bikes gain ground as petrol heads for R30/litre
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen·13d ago
Kenyan motorcycle company ARC Ride has launched an electric delivery bike in South Africa priced from R22 500, betting that last-mile riders paying close to R27/l for petrol would rather pay per...
South Africa's next energy crisis is in the accounts department
TechCentralby Craig Holmes·13d ago
In the first half of 2026, 17 independent power producer projects reached commercial operation in South Africa, adding 1.92GW.
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