Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will probe the “flawed” R2,4bn IT tender, “Who Am I Online?”, awarded to technology group Gijima. The contract was awarded in 2007 and later cancelled after costs ballooned. According to City Press newspaper, Madonsela will investigate whether Gijima CEO Jonas Bogoshi
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Last week, Eastman Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. How did the Rochester-based company that made photography accessible, affordable and ubiquitous go from being unbeatable to broke? It wasn’t hubris or avarice that prompted Kodak’s
Research in Motion (RIM) co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, have resigned under pressure as the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones continues to come under pressure from bigger rivals Apple and Google in the market they effectively
Rape, murder, suicide and twisted medical experiments are just the beginning. Even by the perverse standards of Pedro Almodóvar, The Skin I Live In is bizarre and disturbing. It’s made even more so that it is one of the most carefully controlled films ever made by Spain’s greatest living director. The
Mobile operators need to find ways of boosting revenues and sustaining or growing profits by selling applications or other value-added products and services that can make up for the growing deficit between profit margins on data and those from traditional voice calls. This is the view of Fernando Usera
It seems such an obvious truth now: the Internet can be catalyst for political and social change. But until the Arab Spring of 2011 few people fully realised or believed quite how powerful it could be. Now the US government, accustomed to celebrating the democratising power of the Internet, is getting a taste of
Jeffrey Hedberg has resigned as Altech’s chief operating officer less than nine months after joining the JSE-listed technology group, adding to a growing exodus of top management. Hedberg, a US national who was previously acting group CEO at Telkom, was appointed to Altech
SA’s telecommunications industry has become “a bit boring” and “looks too settled”, says new Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who was named on Thursday as Lars Reichelt’s successor at the mobile operator. He appears keen to change that, promising big changes at Cell C, with a special focus on social networking, mobile broadband
Google has launched a new initiative to get SA small and medium-sized businesses online. Called Woza Online
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has responded to the Communications Workers Union’s planned strike action, which is expected to start on Friday, by warning that although it respects the right of its employees to strike those that do so will not be paid while they’re not at work