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Issue 174 Thursday, December 11, 2008

Hi-tech holidays
The best gifts and gadgets

Issue 173 Thursday, December 04, 2008

The good, and the ugly
2009 promises to be a difficult year, but there's light at the end of the tunnel

Issue 172 Thursday, November 27, 2008

Pathfinders
What goes into mapping Africa

Issue 171 Thursday, November 20, 2008

AMBUSH
Altech battle: Is the minister planning to strike back?

Issue 170 Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Blogosphere
Where companies fear to tread

Issue 169 Thursday, November 06, 2008

Take cover!
Can ICT help shield SMEs from the economic storm?

Issue 168 Thursday, October 30, 2008

Falling behind
SA lagging in Africa's race to the information age

Issue 167 Thursday, October 23, 2008

Not ready
The ICT's in place, but the vote stays manual.While other countries move to electronic voting, South Africa's low computer literacy rate is keeping our election processes manual.The problem, it seems, is a question of trust

Issue 166 Thursday, October 16, 2008

Innovation central
What's so hot about Cape Town? To Gautengers, Cape Town is about little more than the ocean and The Mountain. But the city boasts a growing number of innovative ICT start-up businesses that are making their presence felt throughout SA, and even abroad

Issue 165 Thursday, October 09, 2008

U-Turn
Sentech powers up a turnaround plan

Issue 164 Thursday, October 02, 2008

Back on ice
Back on ice High Court appeal forces industry to freeze plans

Issue 163 Thursday, September 25, 2008

All the president's men
All the president's men Mbeki thanks private sector council for guiding SA ICT change From a change in basic legislation, to the introduction of new pay-TV players and undersea cables, the president's advisory council has guided the country's ICT changes, says government

Issue 162 Thursday, September 18, 2008

Stuck in limbo
Despite government's promulgation of the Codes of Good Practice, SA business is still confused as to what is to be done

Issue 161 Thursday, September 11, 2008

ACCESS DENIED
Despite the successful outcome of Altech Autopage Cellular's landmark court case, SA's telecoms sector is still far from competitive

Issue 160 Thursday, September 04, 2008

Please be patient
Will SA make its digital TV migration deadline? SA has some tight deadlines to meet if it is to migrate to digital terrestrial TV broadcasting by 2015

Issue 159 Thursday, August 28, 2008

Thanks, Eskom
This year has marked a tipping point for the issue of green IT, partly because South Africa's energy crisis is opening communication about the topic.

Issue 158 Thursday, August 21, 2008

The flip side
Tough times on the economic front, but things are looking up for the ICT sector

Issue 157 Thursday, August 14, 2008

Swinging the balance
Local software gains momentum as companies try it and like it South African businesses don't necessarily want to buy locally developed software, but when they do, they love it, a new study has found.

Issue 156 Thursday, August 07, 2008

Government goes 2.0
State decision-makers promise real change

Issue 155 Thursday, July 31, 2008

BROKEN TELEPHONE
SA regulations and sector infighting hold back telecoms progress, and this week's Altech Autopage Cellular court challenge could slow things down yet further

Issue 154 Thursday, July 24, 2008

UP IN THE AIR
Will broadband-poor SA rise to the cloud computing challenge?

Issue 153 Thursday, July 17, 2008

NEW HOPE
IT promises independence for the disabled - but it's still priced too high for SA

Issue 152 Thursday, July 10, 2008

Unlocking the internet
Could internet business be the answer to unemployment woes?

Issue 151 Thursday, July 03, 2008

Standing firm
Emerging nations halt Microsoft's OOXML

Issue 150 Thursday, June 26, 2008

SA turns to IT to fight crime
The DHA has a repository of over 50 million sets of fingerprints and photographs that neither the police nor the NPA have access to.

Issue 149 Thursday, June 19, 2008

Gadget gauge
Gadget hoards replace LSMs to determine ICT's target market

Issue 148 Thursday, June 12, 2008

Pay up
The shortage of critical skills in the IT sector is driving a new surge in salaries as companies struggle to meet their demand for qualified, experienced staff

Issue 147 Friday, June 06, 2008

Snail's pace
While most organisations still practise the age-old philosophy of 'presenteeism', a growing number are slowly coming round to the benefits of a mobile workforce

Issue 146 Thursday, May 29, 2008

The sinking SME
Can IT offer a lifeline? The dire economic situation in SA is especially bad news for SMEs. What can ICTs do to help them stay afloat?

Issue 145 Thursday, May 22, 2008

Progress turns ugly
The security downside of advanced technology

Issue 144 Thursday, May 15, 2008

Customer is king
The digital revolution rewrites the advertising fairytale

Issue 143 Thursday, May 01, 2008

Being bad is big business
Organised crime goes digital By Leon Engelbrecht

Issue 142 Thursday, April 24, 2008

New-age dinosaurs: Telco 2.0
Telecommunications companies reinvent themselves

Issue 141 Thursday, April 17, 2008

A drop in the bucket
Can reducing IT system power consumption cut the total power drain?

Issue 140 Thursday, April 10, 2008

No more sucking
End to bandwidth squeeze in sight But where does it leave ISPs?

Issue 139 Thursday, April 03, 2008

Pie in the sky
SA's defence industry is trying to et a bite of the global aviation software market

Issue 138 Thursday, March 27, 2008

Something fishy at the GSSC?
Gauteng's administrative hub has lashed out against accusations of impropriety. This time, the focus is on a R2 billion schools ICT tender

Issue 137 Thursday, March 20, 2008

SA's skills it the road
ICT professionals join the brain drain By Bandile Sikwane

Issue 136 Thursday, March 13, 2008

CLOSING DOWN
The ongoing power crisis, skills shortage, and an inability to access finance could lead to more ICT SMEs going belly-up, say commentators

Issue 135 Thursday, March 06, 2008

Finally getting IT
President Mbeki keen to digitise Home Affairs in his final year of office IT key to "fixing" Home Affairs

Issue 134 Thursday, February 28, 2008

The EMV has landed
Smart bank cards arrive at last. After years of waiting, South Africans are finally able to carry more secure chip-based bank cards

Issue 133 Thursday, February 21, 2008

All systems GO
Neotel now a 'real' network operator with real services. With 50 blue chip clients already signed up and plans to launch a consumer offering in April, Neotel is officially open for business.

Issue 132 Thursday, February 14, 2008

The changeover puzzle
SA's digital broadcasting migration plan is missing crucial elements

Issue 131 Thursday, February 07, 2008

Dark ages
What the Eskom debacle is doing to business

Issue 130 Thursday, January 31, 2008

Crunch year
2008 a make-or-break year for the telecoms group

Issue 129 Thursday, January 24, 2008

Butterfly effect
One Laptop Per Child project inspires low-cost computing drive

Issue 37 Thursday, February 16, 2006

The year of the tender
We haven't seen the IT industry quite so buoyed since the ill-fated boom of the nineties. Are these the tender mercies we've been waiting for all this time?

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?