The department of labour will not renew its 10-year IT contract with Siemens and plans to seek redress for failures by the electronics giant in the 22 months before it runs out. This route was recommended by KPMG in a report handed
In a no-holds-barred memo to Nokia employees this week, new CEO Stephen Elop has lamented the company’s slow response, first to Apple’s iPhone, and then to the rise of Google’s Android, suggesting it is “standing on a burning platform”
Arianna Huffington must be smiling from ear to well-groomed ear right now. You would be too if you’d just suckered a struggling Internet giant into paying you US$315m for a site you started in 2005
Energy-drinks company Red Bull and mobile operator Cell C have taken the wraps off their telecommunications joint venture, unveiling aggressive tariff plans that should get consumers
An undersea fibre-optic cable laid along the West African coast came ashore in Namibia on Tuesday, allowing high bandwidth connectivity for the country and its neighbours
Could Zimbabwe be the next big investment opportunity for emerging markets-focused telecommunications operators? A new report from Renaissance Capital suggests it might be
Although there is still some time to go before SA runs out of Internet addresses based on the outgoing Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), not enough Internet service providers are taking the move to the new Internet Protocol
Telkom’s attempt to have one of two potentially damaging competition cases against it quashed has been dashed by the Competition Tribunal. The case relates to allegations of abuse of dominance referred to
JSE-listed Reunert, which owns Nashua Mobile and other technology companies, has bought back another 3% of its ordinary share capital for R392,8m. The purchase brings to
The emerging world of IT is one in which data is king, social platforms evolve as a new source of business intelligence, and cloud computing finally delivers on IT’s role as a driver