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29 April 2022

Eskom announces week of power cuts

Eskom has announced Stage 2 load-shedding, starting from 17:00 on Tuesday, 3 May until 05:00 on Monday, 9 May 2022.

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MTN’s R624-million Eastern Cape upgrade — including 5G

MTN is pouring R624 million into network and tower upgrades in the Eastern Cape. The investment forms part of its national modernisation project, which aims to expand its network reach into rural communities, improve 5G availability, and restore vandalised network infrastructure.

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Telkom’s plan to switch off ADSL

Telkom has plans to migrate all of its copper-based services to fibre over time but will continue to sell its DSL services for the foreseeable future. This is according to a Telkom spokesperson who also told MyBroadband that the company would not disconnect DSL customers in areas where it does not have fibre infrastructure.

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Skills dearth, pricey tech hinder African banking digitisation

While digitisation is completely transforming the African banking sector, various barriers remain a hindrance to the speed of that transformation.

These obstacles include regulation, the lack of a skilled workforce and citizens in some regions not being able to afford the high smartphone prices.

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Despite spending more on cyber security, companies don’t feel protected

Although nearly three quarters of SA’s top 100 corporates are investing more in cyber security than the industry average, an almost equal proportion do not feel fully protected by their existing cyber security strategy.

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Apple sues start-up over alleged theft of chip trade secrets

Apple has accused “stealth-mode” start-up Rivos in a lawsuit of poaching its engineers to steal trade secrets used to develop its homegrown chip designs that make iPhones more powerful.

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Facebook gives up on podcasts

Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and plans to remove them altogether from the social media service starting 3 June. Facebook will stop letting people add podcasts to the service starting this week, according to a note sent to partners. It will discontinue both its short-form audio product Soundbites and remove its central audio hub.

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World Press Freedom Day: The ups and downs of digital technology

The use of digital technology has taken the media industry by storm globally, offering journalists the flexibility they need to execute their work from any corner of the world. But despite the convenience, it also places them at great risk of surveillance – compromising their safety, their relationships with their sources and their work.

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