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...

Follow Rosetta on Twitter

Following a ten year journey through space, the Rosetta spacecraft landed on a comet’s surface yesterday....

Internet.org takes app honours at AfricaCom Awards

The internet.org app developed as part of Facebook’s connectivity initiative in developing countries has earned Bharti...

You put your right finger out….

The original Hokey Pokey may have you shaking all about, but the biometric version most certainly...

CEOs must talk to IT

Technology will increase a company’s overall revenue and drive profits. But, if it is badly implemented...

Perimeter defence no longer enough

Businesses need to supplement their traditional security tools with incident response teams, forensic tools, and technologies...

How data centres beat Eskom

Using the services of a well-designed and maintained data centre will help any sized company mitigate...

Intel Capital puts $62m in 16 young tech companies

Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organisation, has announced investments in 16 technology companies. Totalling approximately $62...

Retailers, banks, face cyber war

Trend Micro’s threat defense experts predict that hackers in countries like Vietnam, UK, and India will...

Cash for recycling on WeChat

M4JAM recently launched a pilot recycling project where WeChat users got paid R5 for each toner...

Biggest data threat: from within

Research by Cisco has revealed that critical company data is at risk in South Africa as...