I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft. I’ve made that pretty clear over the years. The company has spent a decade in various degrees of stagnation, largely thanks to keeping Uncle Fester’s evil twin as its CEO. It has made a string of expensive and stupid acquisitions

Implementation of “carrier pre-selection”, which will allow consumers to route a phone call over a network of their choice by adding an access code in front a dialled number, has been delayed until the end of November. The regulations are meant to help foster

Banking group Absa will soon overhaul its ATMs, adding a broad range of functionality to them, and launch mobile banking applications supporting a range of popular smartphone and tablet computer operating systems.It says this is part of its long-term goal of providing a

Captain America: The First Avenger, the third Marvel Comics film of blockbuster season, bathes in nostalgia for the black-and-white clarity of the battle against Nazism. Its hero, created during World War 2, is a relic of the days when

Are you an entrepreneur running a small business? Don’t have or can’t afford a personal assistant to help you with tedious tasks that distract you from more important work? A new Cape Town-based Web start-up, Lessfuss, has been launched that hopes to make money

Online retail giant and Fortune 500 company Amazon is expanding its customer services and development team in Cape Town to create 600 permanent jobs by the end of the year and employ a further 400 temporary employees during peak periods. This adds to the 250

Japanese optics manufacturer Olympus has enjoyed mixed fortunes over the years. Today, it’s best known for its four-thirds, digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) system and its budget compacts. But with the XZ-1 the company is clearly hoping to reclaim a share of the

JSE-listed Altron’s IT subsidiary, Bytes Technology Group, has acquired UK-based IT security specialist Security Partnerships in an all-cash deal worth R72m. Security Partnerships provides IT security solutions and managed services

Delivering fibre to the home (FTTH) will become part of mainstream politics in SA, just like it has in Australia, predicts Steve Nola, who was until recently CEO of Dimension Data Australia. Nola, who has been named as head of Didata’s new cloud solutions business unit

RSAWeb has become the latest Internet service provider to offered uncapped hosting on shared computer servers, joining the likes of MWeb and Web Africa in offering the service. The packages start at R19/month for a product offering 20 e-mail accounts and unlimited traffic