Virtual telcos to the rescue

Many South African businesses are tied up in fixed contracts with their telecoms providers. But, says...

Seeking Marvel fashion in SA

Marvel Africa and SA Fashion Week have announced that entries are now open for the 2015...

Simplicity comes to ERP

Traditional enterprise software vendors find it hard to change their existing products to fit a more...

Cloud does not wash away the hardware channel

Distributors can easily weather the changes by doing what every other company in every other industry...

Mobile marketing needs right message at right time

Gemalto has released the results of a survey in South Africa and Nigeria, revealing that although...

Samsung opens more stores

Samsung has opened two new Experience Stores in South Africa. The storers are designed to give...

Johannesburg connected, but …

Ericsson’s latest Networked Society City Index ranked Johannesburg as 29th among 40 key cities in the...

SA careless in e-commerce

According to a survey by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, nearly a third of users are...

Wits offers MOOCs to Africa

Wits has announced a partnership with edX, a nonprofit online learning company founded by MIT and...

Frankel & Co take over Hellopeter

Hellopeter.com has been acquired by a consortium of South African and global entrepreneurs including Frankel &...

Why innovation disrupts business

Technologies like big data, social media and cloud computing are regarded as positive developments, many regard...

Business slowed by mobile gap

Research by VMware has revealed that the average IT company in the EMEA region takes up...

Bringing women back to programming

In the 1960s, computer programming was viewed as a lucrative career for women, however over the...

Mxit to sponsor codeX

Mxit has partnered with codeX, a company focused on training software developers, and is offering three...

SA falls behind in ICT skills

According to Wits University’s Joburg Centre for Software Engineering skills trends survey, South Africa is falling...

BYOx: new challenges and opportunities

A few years ago, BYOD was causing headaches among CIOs around the world. Now that the...

Job description: ‘Games developer’

There are now hundreds of South African game developers according to a recent survey by Make...

Chilean team wins Intel science education challenge

Lab4U, a team of student entrepreneurs from Chile, has won the 10th annual Intel Global Challenge,...

Google bootcamp open for applications

Applications are now open for the January 2015 intake of the Google and IAB SA-backed Digify...

Business booming at AfricaCom

Business is booming in the telecommunications, ICT and digital media ecosystem, as evidenced by the number...