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Issue 41 Thursday, March 17, 2005

Ready to roll
Most retailers' bank-supplied electronic fund transfer systems are MV-capable. But mass-retail groups with custom solutions and in-house systems have a longer road to travel in terms of upgrades

Issue 32 Thursday, December 08, 2005

Reading - IT LEAVES
The year in review, and the one ahead The past informs the future. To ascertain what might happen in the year to come, iWeek asked financial analysts, research gurus and vendors about the game-changing happenings of the year that was

Issue 31 Thursday, December 01, 2005

Using users
Hacking's final frontier Individuals are increasingly being targeted in a new wave of hacking. iWeek takes tips on avoiding risk from the world's most notorious ex-hacker and others in the know

Issue 30 Thursday, November 24, 2005

Black gold rush
Gushing oil prices have sent IT companies rushing to get their share of the black gold's profits. But will the oil industry grab the opportunity to regain former glory, as it still smarts over the lean times of yesterday?

Issue 29 Thursday, November 17, 2005

Talent trouble
South Africa's ailing skills machine. South Africa's shortage of IT skills is widely recognised, yet there is no long-term solution. If the industry is to contribute to 6% target economic growth and survive a global recruitment onslaught, we need the right skills, and lots of them

Issue 28 Thursday, November 10, 2005

Chasing value
Is your IT budget prioritised correctly? Analysts say too little of IT budgets is being spent on creating value for businesses. SA CIOs think differently. Despite the difficulty with measuring the business value of technology, the best of them have come up with good spending ratios.

Issue 27 Thursday, November 03, 2005

Punching above its weight
Telkom's per-usage billing for ADSL is good news for only some ISPs. Speaking for the rest, Cape Town outfit Dotco made a mighty stand last week.

Issue 26 Thursday, October 27, 2005

Miss it, miss out
SA's software opportunity

Issue 25 Monday, October 17, 2005

Slow on the uptake
South Africa doesn't get instant messaging Enterprise IM is here. Some companies still see it as just chat, but in time, it will be unstoppable, relegating e-mail to a far more formal role

Issue 24 Thursday, October 13, 2005

Unbundle or else
Telkom has argued against unbundling of the local loop for years.

It will get another chance at this week's second telecoms pricing colloquium.

At stake is South Africa's global competitiveness

Issue 23 Thursday, October 06, 2005

Crippled by compliance
SA companies are overburdened by the cost of compliance. On top of this they worry about a vast body of laws and regulations. It's time to take stock

Issue 22 Thursday, September 29, 2005

IT's back
The finalisation of the draft ICT Charter has caused a flurry of black empowerment deals, and the outlook for the industry is good for the first time in five years. - IT companies are attractive again.

Issue 21 Thursday, September 22, 2005

GET IT TOGETHER!
Marrying the best aspects of the black economic empowerment drive and the Proudly South African campaign has staggering potential ? a global brand that will be truly South African.

Issue 20 Thursday, September 15, 2005

Tit for tat
SA's cellular price war is not a passing marketing fad. It's going to be a drawn-out battle for subscriber numbers amidst declining average revenue per user.

Issue 19 Thursday, September 08, 2005

Last man standing
As private companies scramble to satisfy the Promotion of Access to Information Act, the fiercely competitive SME accounting software industry is in the spotlight. Who will win the battle for supremacy?

Issue 18 Thursday, September 01, 2005

A little less conversation
The enterprise market's move towards mobile applications has been slower than anticipated, and operators are, predictably, making much of their money from voice calls. What are the early business adopters up to?

Issue 17 Thursday, August 25, 2005

Boys don't cry
First, Dimension Data didn't make the Nitel shortlist. Then, Bussiness Connexion was chosen to help take Cisco's 'AON' vision to market. And finally, Didata lost to Telkom in the Old Mutual/Nedbank outsourcing deal.

Issue 16 Thursday, August 18, 2005

Telkom torpedos
A letter announcing Telkom's intention to change its ADSL pricing structure for ISPs underscores the arbitrary effect of the telecommunications utility's decisions on small and medium-sized companies.

Issue 14 Friday, April 08, 2005

Progress check on SITA
SITA's daunting list of tasks is made all the more frightening, given the massive change under way at the state-owned entity

Issue 12 Monday, July 05, 2021

Redmond rush
Microsoft got very busy in the first two weeks of July, whetting the appetites of users, IT managers and developers alike as it divvied out bits and pieces of what is coming down the line this year and early next year.

Issue 11 Thursday, July 14, 2005

S.A's e-crime strategy takes shape
He points out that it does not make sense for the SAPS to have all the expertise relating to cyber crime in-house. "No bank will allow external interference with their IT systems.

Issue 10 Thursday, July 07, 2005

SNO set to clear last licence hurdle
LET'S HOPE Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, Minister of Communications, has tidied her desk and cleared her diary.

Issue 7 Thursday, June 16, 2005

Converging challenges
Telkom's ambitious goal of having an entirely IP-based telecoms network by 2009 is easier said than done.

Issue 6 Monday, June 06, 2005

On The Cover
There may have been a time when keeping the company's data centres up and running was good enough, but today's expectations for a chief information officer (CIO) are much, much higher.