SpaceX’s Starlink suffered one of its biggest international outages on Thursday when an internal software failure knocked users offline, a rare disruption for Elon Musk’s powerful satellite internet system. Users in the US and Europe began experiencing the outage at around 9pm SAST, according to Downdetector, a crowdsourced outage tracker. Starlink, which has more than…
MoData helps clients digitise manual processes. (Image: MoData) South Africa is poised for a digital currency shift, and technology innovator MoData states that it is positioned to play a key role in underpinning the next generation of money. As South Africa accelerates its digital currency ambitions, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is laying the…
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Laure Andrillon/Reuters Intel is going to end the year with a workforce that is over a fifth smaller than last year, it said on Thursday, and new CEO Lip-Bu Tan presented a blueprint for a more cost-disciplined, streamlined chip maker that would issue “no more blank cheques”. The job cuts —…
Nicolas Callegari, founder and CXO, Decapod Customer Experience. The desire to differentiate the business and enhance the customer experience leads companies to “throw AI” at processes, but this does not work, said Nicolas Callegari, founder and CXO at Decapod Customer Experience. This approach leads to the business using resources to try solving problems that don’t…
Obsidian Systems chief marketing officer Angela Ho On 30 June 2025, more than 100 professionals from across South Africa’s leading finance, telecommunications, retail and IT sectors tuned in to the highly anticipated webinar “Automation in Jira: Do More with Less”. This collaborative event was hosted by Obsidian Systems and Atlassian, and powered by TechCentral. In…
Fraudsters sometimes create entirely fake taxpayer profiles using stolen ID numbers. As tax season kicks off with manual filing now open, cyber criminals are ramping up phishing scams and leaked credentials to get access to South African Revenue Service (SARS) taxpayer profiles and steal refunds. In most cases, scammers break into a taxpayer’s SARS account…
IT security breaches are on the rise in South Africa and worldwide and, with AI tools at their disposal, criminals are scaling up their attacks. With the risk of attack so high, organisations are forced to look beyond beefing up security – they must prepare for the unfortunate event where their systems are, in fact,…
Restructuring forms Telkom’s broader turnaround strategy to create a more agile business. JSE-listed telecommunications firm Telkom has revealed it incurred R160 million in restructuring costs during the past financial year, as part of its efforts to streamline operations and improve long-term efficiency. This figure was disclosed in Telkom’s integrated report for the year ended 31…
This Monday, TechCentral will launch the first episode of an exciting new motoring show called Watts & Wheels. The show, hosted by motoring journalist and “buzzhead” William Kelly and TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod, has a special focus on the shift to electric motoring, a space that’s still relatively new in South Africa but which is…
James Manyika, senior vice-president for research, labs, technology and society at Google. South African institutions of higher learning – the University of Pretoria (UP) and the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) – have received R35 million funding from US-based internet search giant Google to drive artificial intelligence (AI) research. This, after Google announced a wave of…
