Technology

[ad_1] Economies around the world were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, which limited international trade and forced many companies to close their doors temporarily or permanently. The shock led to the fastest stock market crash in financial history and the largest since the Wall Street crash of 1929, which …

[ad_1] Shameel Joosub, CEO of Vodacom Group Vodacom Group parent company, UK-based Vodafone Group has reached an agreement with AST SpaceMobile to launch the first phase of a space-based commercial mobile communications service in 2023. The goal of the project is to “transform mobile network coverage” for the 49 largest …

[ad_1] Netflix says it named Zimbabwean telecom billionaire Strive Masiyiwa in its directory. Masiyiwa is the founder of the Econet Group, which has operations and investments in 29 countries in Africa and beyond, including Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s leading mobile operator; Liquid Telecom, the pan-African broadband company and its subsidiary Africa …

[ad_1] As of Wednesday, December 16, the cumulative number of Covid-19 cases detected is 883,687 with 10,016 new cases identified, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize confirmed. In a statement, Mkhize stressed that the case of South Africa was “growing exponentially”, with a positivity rate of 21%. “This far exceeds the ideal …

[ad_1] It is appropriate that in a crazy week of a crazy year, we had the President of the United States, Donald Trump, speaking of the Covid-19 vaccine as “the gold standard in safety”, even as Mogoeng Mogoeng, the face of the judiciary SA widely respected, he was floating in …

[ad_1] Vaccination campaigns have already started in Great Britain and the United States. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is conducting a COVID-19 vaccine trial together with BioNTech. Image: Supplied. GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it is in talks with Pfizer and Moderna about the possibility of including …

[ad_1] By the time Lt. Col. Charl Kinnear, a key member of the police’s Anti-Gang Unit, was killed outside his home in Cape Town, the cell phones he was carrying had been illegally tracked thousands of times. His death revealed a murky spy world where cell phone tracking technology, meant …

[ad_1] The Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, met with senior executives from her department this week to discuss a performance agreement that she signed with President Cyril Ramaphosa. The agreement sets out a series of targets that Ndabeni-Abrahams is expected to meet in the coming years in …

[ad_1] US government agencies were hit by cyberattacks that exploited a flaw in an update from software company SolarWinds. SolarWinds sells technology to the US Department of State, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, the FBI, all five branches of the US military, and 425 …

[ad_1] US government agencies were hit by a “global intrusion campaign” of cyberattacks that exploited a failure to update a software company, according to cybersecurity firm FireEye, which discovered the hack. “We have identified a global campaign that introduces engagement in the networks of public and private organizations through the …