Dimension Data deserves to be remembered for more than this
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod8 Oct 2026
There is a sentence in Jason Goodall’s remarkable confession this week that I keep coming back to.
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top 90%The memory crunch is making Samsung fabulously rich
TechCentralby Agency Staff8 Oct 2026
Samsung Electronics on Thursday projected that its quarterly profit would top ₩100-trillion, a world first for a technology company, estimating a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter earnings as...
'We will not be judged by Goodall': former Dimension Data executives fight back
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod7 Oct 2026
Four former Dimension Data executives fingered by Jason Goodall in his admission of wrongdoing over the 2019 Campus sale have hit back.
Seacom CEO Alpheus Mangale on special leave pending probe
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod7 Oct 2026
Seacom’s board has placed CEO Alpheus Mangale on special leave and appointed an independent third party to investigate allegations it received about how the company was being run, chairman Pieter...
30 years of Hisense in South Africa: inside the Atlantis factory
TechCentralby Hisense7 Oct 2026
Hisense South Africa is marking 30 years in the country this October, a milestone that traces the company’s growth from its first overseas subsidiary into one of its most significant global...
Four Microsoft dates before February: the cost is in the calendar
TechCentralby Ascent Technology7 Oct 2026
Key takeaways - Nothing will say price increase – Between July and February, four dated changes decide what the Microsoft estate will cost, through list pricing, billing cadence, currency policy...
Paratus Namibia launches Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO connectivity
TechCentralby Paratus Group7 Oct 2026
Paratus Namibia has launched Eutelsat’s OneWeb low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite service in Namibia.
Jason Goodall in bombshell confession in Dimension Data Campus saga
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod7 Oct 2026
Jason Goodall, the former group CEO of Dimension Data and NTT Ltd, has admitted that he secretly took part on the buying side of the 2019 sale of Dimension Data’s Johannesburg head office while...
The giant batteries coming to South Africa's grid
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen7 Oct 2026
Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has announced a determination for 9.6GW of new capacity, made up entirely of battery storage and gas-fired power, with no new wind or solar, to tackle a...
South Pole neutrino hunter wins Nobel Prize in Physics
TechCentralby Agency Staff7 Oct 2026
Belgian-American scientist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating an observatory in Antarctic ice that detects high-energy neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that...
Why South Africa's biggest drone isn't flying for the country
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen6 Oct 2026
Four years after Milkor earmarked five of its 380 drones for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), South Africa has still not bought one.
Why laser technology makes sense for small businesses
TechCentralby MaxLaser6 Oct 2026
One of the biggest challenges when starting a small manufacturing business is deciding what to sell. Investing in equipment designed to manufacture a single product can be risky.
Human-centred design: the business case for simpler enterprise software
TechCentralby BBD6 Oct 2026
Our experience designing enterprise software at BBD has shown that systems rarely fail because they lack features. More often, they fail because they ask too much of users.
Nersa wants five-year ban on automated electricity trading
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen6 Oct 2026
Energy regulator Nersa wants to keep fully automated trading off South Africa’s new wholesale electricity market for its first five years.
South African boardrooms are about to get a lot less private
TechCentralby Duncan McLeod6 Oct 2026
Anyone at your next board meeting could already be recording it on a phone left face down on the table.
FNB launches crypto trading
TechCentralby Staff Reporter6 Oct 2026
First National Bank has launched cryptocurrency trading on its share trading platform, in partnership with local crypto exchange VALR – but customers will not be able to move their coins off it.
Meta met Information Regulator over its camera glasses
TechCentralby Fanie van Rooyen6 Oct 2026
South Africa’s Information Regulator met Meta Platforms in September, when the company demonstrated its camera-equipped smart glasses to the privacy watchdog.
iONLINE launches Sydney breakout point, expanding its global network core
TechCentralby iONLINE6 Oct 2026
For many global deployments, connectivity remains reliant on centralised network paths that add latency, limit visibility and make even simple network changes painfully slow.
Sam Altman: the world should accept 'some bad things' from AI
TechCentralby Agency Staff6 Oct 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the benefits of artificial intelligence justify accepting some risks, and argued that the technology should remain broadly accessible to the public.
Pothole bounty app wins Wits hackathon
TechCentralby Tinashe Mazodze5 Oct 2026
A platform that lets residents crowdfund repairs to potholes and illegal dumping sites has won this year’s Wits Social Good Hackathon, with the winners announced on Friday at the Wits Science...