The South African arm of German technology services company T-Systems has won a R67,5m contract from the department of water affairs to manage and modernise the SAP enterprise resource planning applications the department uses. The contract term is three years and the

With location-based services growing in popularity, the race to provide location solutions for developing markets that don’t require users to enter full address details is hotting up. MyDoorHandle is a Cape Town-based start-up looking to stake its claim. Started by Steven Ellis, 38, and

Naspers’s decision, 12 years ago, to buy a stake in Chinese instant-messaging, entertainment and online advertising company Tencent continues to pay big dividends for the South African-headquartered media and technology group. Financial results published on Tuesday

Dave Greenway and Christo van Gemert join Brett Haggard this week for a recap on the goings-on in the technology industry over the past week. Topics of discussion include

The department of communications is “outraged” by a press ombudsman ruling that cleared the Sunday Times of violations of the South African press code and will appeal the decision, communications minister Dina Pule’s spin doctor, Wisani Ngobeni, said on Monday. On Saturday, press ombudsman

Advances in technology, coupled with the falling cost of hardware and software, have made it easier than ever to work in animation. The result has been studios springing up all over the world, including South Africa. Now, thanks to increasingly speedy and reliable connectivity and a weakening

Human beings can be exasperating creatures. We go from amazement to bored entitlement so quickly that even rapidly evolving technology is soon passé. Geosynchronous satellites? Ho hum. Smartphones? Yawn. So it takes something quite special to remind us of the wonders of technology, and Google Loon

Call it the gift of lowered expectations, but zombie apocalypse flick World War Z isn’t as bad as you may have feared following reports of the expensive reshoots and on-set feuds that dogged the production. It’s not genre-redefining like the novel on which it is based, but World War Z delivers enough thrills to make it worth

Police have been forced to seek help from cellphone manufacturer Apple in the US to gain access to murder accused paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s phone, The Mail on Sunday reported. Pistorius could reportedly not remember the four-digit passcode needed to unlock a cellphone he was using on the night his

For years, Telkom has been like a frog in slowly warming water. It’s kept broadband prices far too high while watching on puzzled as its subscribers abandoned it in favour of mobile alternatives. It has a high cost structure – mainly because it has too many employees – but consumers don’t care about its challenges. And