Can mobile enterprise apps keep up with the tablets?

The unprecedented adoption of tablet PCs means that the fully mobile enterprise is now possible, but true enterprise mobility also requires access to full ERP functionality on the road. With tablets, smartphones and phablets moving to surpass PC shipments, mobile computing is the way of the future. 20 May 2013 16:03

Production falls - Easter holidays blamed

Manufacturing production fell 2.2% year-on-year (y/y) in March after a slightly revised 2.8% (2.9%) year-on-year decline in February‚ data released by Statistics SA on Thursday (9 May) showed. 10 May 2013 08:41

Icasa 'snatches' phone provider's kit

[Thabiso Mochiko] The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has shut down the operations of Eastern Cape-based Amatole Telecommunications Services by confiscating its equipment after it failed to pay its licence fees‚ Icasa said on Thursday (9 May). 10 May 2013 07:30

TV series sponsorship: Think out of the box

[Bonnie Ramaila] I have never understood why companies should have those closing and opening billboards before, during and after a TV programme, until I saw 1st for Women's sponsorship of the M-Net series, 'Revenge'. 8 May 2013 10:26

ATMs are now 'virtual tellers'

South African banks have been installing more innovative cash-accepting automated teller machines (ATMs), a move that is changing both the role of the teller inside the branch and the way banks are accessed by clients. 2 May 2013 07:55

Cape Town company makes breakthrough in transistor design

At the IDTechEx 2013 Printed Electronics Europe Conference and Exhibition in mid April, Cape Town-based PST Sensors announced the commercial release of the first new type of transistor in 65 years. 2 May 2013 07:21

Pule comes out guns blazing on allegations

Communications Minister Dina Pule has come out guns blazing to defend herself against allegations of corruption and meddling in tender processes reported in the Sunday Times on Sunday. 23 Apr 2013 07:12

Pule concerned by digital TV delays

[Thabiso Mochiko] Communications Minister Dina Pule has raised concerns about delays in finalising matters relating to conditional access control to digital television. 18 Apr 2013 11:02

IMF forecasts "solid growth" for Africa

Economies in sub-Saharan Africa will ride out the bumpy global recovery in the next few years to post growth rates not seen outside Asia, the IMF said in its latest economic forecasts Tuesday (16 April). 17 Apr 2013 09:47

Altron warns its earnings will fall

Allied Electronics Corporation Limited (Altron) advised that a reasonable degree of certainty exists that the company's headline earnings per share for the financial year to February are expected to be down by between 27% and 32% compared with the previous period. 15 Apr 2013 10:21

Broadband delays bad for economy: report

Government delays in improving broadband internet access are having a negative impact on the country's economy, according to rankings by the World Economic Forum (WEF) published in a report yesterday. 12 Apr 2013 06:42

Reduce data centre operational expenditure

[Xolani Ndlovu] The impact on the physical infrastructure of virtualisation and cloud computing has escalated the importance of specifying the most effective and cost-efficient equipment that suits the needs of the business. 8 Apr 2013 09:11

South Africa and the rise of the VoIP industry

[Rachel Greenberg] SAN DIEGO, US/ JOHANNESBURG, SA: In the next few years, South Africa will become more interconnected than ever with newly improved wireless communication technologies throughout the country. 4 Apr 2013 11:00

Mind what you say - or write

[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: If the ANC has its way, there will be no judicial oversight over eavesdropping on communications originating outside of SA, reports BD Live, and Dina Pule's going to have her conduct investigated, reports Mail & Guardian. 28 Mar 2013 09:34