Offsite document storage specialist Metrofile has suffered a blaze at one of its records management facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, it told shareholders on Monday. Client data has been “affected” by the fire, which broke out on Friday evening and which was only contained by the following day. No injuries
High-flying IT services company EOH has acquired 100% of financial services software specialist Sybrin, which employs 150 people, for an amount neither party is disclosing. EOH, which is listed on the JSE with a market capitalisation of R8bn
Guy Taylor returns to the ZA Tech Show Studio this week and joins Brett Haggard and Liron Segev for a meandering discussion on the rAge expo, the closure of Silk Road, the launch of SnappCap in Johannesburg, Google Now for enterprises, BlackBerry’s cloud-based device management
The process of monitoring South Africa’s consumer price inflation is going digital. Government’s statistics service, Stats SA, said on Friday that it has decided to “explore possible digital alternatives to the paper-based collection which currently informs the CPI”
The user-pays principle to be implemented on Gauteng’s freeways was comparable to paying to use a toilet, transport minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday. “Those who use a facility, you pay R1 or R2. Those toilets need to be maintained. Would you pay [to use a] dirty toilet?” she asked
Users of home-grown mobile messaging platform Mxit remain highly loyal to the platform, despite the fact that the service was recently supplanted by Facebook as the country’s biggest social network, according to what World Wide Worx and Fuseware are calling a “final analysis” of their “SA Social Media
Annual spending on IT in South Africa will increase by 6,3% in 2014, to reach US$14,6bn (about R146bn), according to research and advisory firm International Data Corp (IDC). Over the next five years, the biggest IT spenders will be consumers, financial services, government and the communications
The supreme court of appeal dismissed an appeal by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) on Wednesday in its e-toll challenge against roads agency Sanral. Judge Fritz Brand said the appeal was refused and no order for costs was made. However
Telkom has warned that criminals are targeting “unsuspected” customers with the aim of either defrauding them of cash or acquiring their personal details or Internet usernames and passwords under false pretexts. “The latest modus operandi that fraudsters are
New technology is being rolled out across licence testing centres in Gauteng in an attempt to fight fraud and corruption. A new electronic system for learner’s licence tests had replaced the booklet system at eight testing centres in the province, transport MEC Ismail Vadi said on Tuesday
