
Pressure builds on Vodacom’s South African mobile business
With voice revenue falling and customer growth stalled, Vodacom is struggling to cash in on surging data traffic.
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With voice revenue falling and customer growth stalled, Vodacom is struggling to cash in on surging data traffic.
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The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.

Disparate projects have resulted in several systemic challenges, says the Department of Home Affairs.

Disney+ debuted the official trailer and key art for season two of the Original comedy series “Deli Boys,” premiering on Thursday, 28 May with all 6 episodes, exclusively on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally. Turns out inheriting a criminal empire was the easy part… and more money really does mean more problems. This season on “Deli Boys,” the Dars are drowning in dirty cash […]
A new collaboration with Alphabet’s Wing will only deliver sandwiches. It demonstrates the tricky parts of taking to the sky.

Severe weather has cut power across dozens of Cape towns, with restoration delayed by unsafe conditions.
Linux 7.1 started phasing out support for Intel’s 37-year-old i486 processor. Linux 7.2 removed drivers for the old AMD Elan 32-bit systems on a chip. And now some i586 and i686 class processors are being removed, reports Phoronix:Supporting those vintage GPUs without the Time Stamp Counter “TSC” instruction are becoming a burden… TSC-capable Intel Pentium processors and the likes will still be...

Meetable, the South African social discovery platform curating dinners between strangers, officially launches in Johannesburg this month, with its first Johannesburg dinner taking place on Thursday 14 May 2026. Originally launched in Cape Town, Meetable brings together four to six strangers for curated dinners at carefully selected restaurants across the city. The concept is intentionally […]

The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions, even as Texas lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.

Balwin Annuity delivered another SOLID performance, with revenue increasing by 25% to R219.0 million for the year ended 28 February 2026. JSE-listed Balwin), a developer focused on environmentally responsible building practices and the delivery of high-quality, affordable, lifestyle-oriented apartments, today released its audited financial results for the year ended 28 February 2026. Balwin...

Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub has compared voice’s decline to the same trajectory SMS followed into irrelevance.

The Eastern Cape province looks to solidify itself as a key contender in the business process outsourcing sector.

GenAI will evolve to autonomous agents, with humans central to control and oversight, says Absa Group’s Johnson Idesoh.

Disconnected customer engagement systems are frustrating consumers and hurting business loyalty, according to speakers at the Infobip Leadership Soirée 2026.

Vodacom and MTN groups’ fintech arms now process a combined value of over $1-trillion/year in transactions.

There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware.

For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

The firm’s pending Safaricom acquisition – currently in court – will accelerate its transformation from telco to African technology company, it says.

Companies eager to tap into AI must apply strong governance to avoid legal and compliance risks, says Cloudflare’s Özgür Danisman, who will address the ITWeb Security Summit 2026.

The community safety committee raises concerns about Pretoria West police station’s ICT issues, calling for decisive action.