Neotel director and shareholder Kennedy Memani will provide “interim executive oversight as the director in charge” following the decision last week to place CEO Sunil Joshi and chief financial officer Steven Whiley on “special leave” pending an investigation into
Neotel CEO Sunil Joshi and chief financial officer Steven Whiley have been placed on “special leave” pending an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption at the telecommunications operator
Maggy Sibiya tells me she is relieved when I arrive at her office in Rivonia in Johannesburg without a camera. The ICT-Works chief operating officer says she is a “behind the scenes type of person” and
The world’s cellphone manufacturers will sell 1,4bn smartphones in 2015, generating US$300bn in sales. Indeed, smartphone sales will dwarf the sale of all PCs, televisions, tablets and game consoles
Bad news: there is unlikely to be be a breakthrough in smartphone battery technology before the end of the decade, according to a new report. Although there will be incremental improvement in existing
The gulf between those with access to the fastest broadband speeds and those on basic speeds has widened over recent years and in the near term looks likely to increase further. This is a key finding in Deloitte’s TMT Predictions 2015 report, released this
Click-and-collect e-commerce, such as the locker system that Makro will introduce this year, is set to boom, according to a new report by Deloitte. The firm says in its TMT Predictions 2015 report, released last week, that strong growth is expected in Europe
Professional services firm Deloitte is relaunching a programme to recognise African technology businesses that have achieved the fastest rate of revenue growth over five years. The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Africa for 2014 forms part of an international programme run by the firm, and qualifying entrants will be put
Ten million wearable computing devices will be sold worldwide this year, generating US$3bn in sales from smart glasses, smart watches and wearable fitness trackers. That’s one of the predictions in Deloitte’s 2014 technology, media and telecommunications trend report. But the sale of wearables remains small fry next to smartphones
South Africa’s new “e-commerce tax”, to be introduced on 1 April, will mean education institutions will struggle to purchase academic journals. It is already difficult for South Africans to access international academic journals. The most prestigious, which contain the world’s leading research, charge – usually in dollars, pounds or euros – for article
