Siemens has declined to comment on a decision by the department of labour to terminate its 10-year IT contract with the German-owned firm, saying it has not seen a report which recommended

President Jacob Zuma said little about IT or telecommunications in his state of the nation address, delivered in parliament on Thursday evening. Zuma’s speech, which focused heavily on job creation

Trade unions expressed concern on Thursday over Telkom’s proposed voluntary severance packages. The leadership of the Communication Workers Union (CWU)…

Cape Town-based start-up Afrozaar thinks there’s a big future in merging cloud computing (computing on the Internet) and mobile telephony to offer hosted mobile applications to the corporate market

The original panel of the ZA Tech Show reassemble this week for a special, re-launch episode. They discuss Motorola’s Super Bowl Xoom commercial, gadget pricing, Nokia’s strategy and tablet rumours, and much more

Telkom has reinstated plans to offer employees voluntary retrenchment and early retirement packages in a bid to cut costs. The telecommunications company offered severance to managerial staff last year

The R35m sale of 51% of disaster-recovery firm Continuity SA by JSE-listed outsourcing specialist the Dialogue Group, has been finalised. CoroCapital, the investment banking firm

Smartphone sales soared 72,1% from 2009 to 2010 and accounted for 19% of total mobile communications device sales, new research from Gartner shows. That means nearly one in five phones now sold is a smartphone

Cell C has finally sold its stake in Virgin Mobile SA. UK-based Virgin Mobile will increase its stake by 5%, to 55%, with the remainder of Cell C’s 50% stake in the company being sold to Calico Investments of the Bahamas

Google is on the hunt for talent, hoping to double the size of its SA subsidiary from about 20 staff now, to roughly 40 people in the medium term. That’s the word from Google SA’s new country manager