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  • Xmas goes hi-tech

    Martin Czernowalow
    Another year draws to a close and silly season is well and truly upon us. ...
  • Telkom talks acquisitions

    Nombulelo “Pinky” Moholi
    Telkom, SA’s dominant fixed-line company, is looking to make select ICT acquisitions as it seeks to diversif...
  • DOC withdraws EC Amendment Bill

    Dina Pule
    The proposed amendment would trim ICASA’s power...
  • SITA fights corruption

    Roy Padayachie
    The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) has instituted several controls to combat corruption and irregul...
  • SKA gets additional €69m


    Seven national governmental and research organisations announced the formation of the SKA (Square Kilometre Array) Organisation that will run the €1....
  • Transport contracts at court

    Ismail Vadi
    The AG recommends the letters of award be null and void...
  • Neotel targets profitability

    Sunil Joshi
    Neotel, SA’s second national operator, aims to return a net profit by the end of the 2014 financial year, after becoming profit...
  • Security efforts misguided

    Kris Budnik
    Companies shouldn’t think perimeter security keeps them safe, says Kris Budnik, national security services leader for Pricewaterho...
  • ICT metrics

    The global optical network equipment market dropped 4% in the third quarter of the year, from $3.5 billion to $3.4 billion. Huawei is the leader in this market, with global revenue up 23%.
    – Infonetics...
  • African growth driven by lower cost

    While most African countries have Internet penetration levels below 5%, many have experienced a steady uptake of mobile communications....
  • Torque IT bolsters Kelly

    Listed staffing solutions provider Kelly Group reported a loss for the full year, but says this situation would have been worse without Torque IT’s profit....
  • MWeb drives ‘Free the Web’ campaign

    MWeb has unleashed a social media campaign to encourage South Africans to demand “naked ADSL” by voting to remove mandatory landlines with ADSL lines....
  • Incubeta buys Interface for R100m

    Local Internet company Incubeta Holdings has bought South African online media company, Interface Holdings, in a deal worth R100 million, as part of its global expansion into the small and medium enterprise (SME) segment....
  • Pay-TV operators to face tribunal

    SA’s two pay-television operators now face a tribunal process after they were issued with compliance notices by the National Consumer Commission (NCC) last month....
  • 8ta expands airtime options

    Mobile newcomer 8ta has announced that prepaid and hybrid subscribers can now buy airtime online via its Web site, using their credit cards. ...
  • Purpose built BI: Going beyond ‘mere’ analytics

    About the author: Kevin Clarke is sales director at Afresh Consult.
    The typical enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution of today has mature...
  • More choice for cellphone banking

    About the author: Arno du Toit is CCO of Virtual Mobile Technologies.
    South Africa has one of the most established mobile banking environments ...
  • UC, cloud the future of enterprise comms

    Keith Jones
    Unified and cloud communications are key new trends in enterprise communications, said industry experts speaking at ITWeb’s Busine...
  • Speed of change

    David Dobson
    Cloud was a hot topic at the conference again, as rapidly changing demands create a ‘new normal’ for IT....
  • SAP drives cloud, mobile, in-memory analytics

    Jim Hagemann Snabe
    Global business software company, SAP, is making big investments in mobile business intelligence (BI), cloud computing...