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Laptops needed to teach aspiring young coders
ICT focused NPO, Code for Cape Town (Code4CT) has kicked off its laptop drive for young women interested in coding... read


Cloud Computing
Dropbox to drop Mailbox and Carousel
[NEWSWATCH] Dropbox, the huge cloud storage website, will reportedly be shutting down two of the company's other ventures, Mailbox and Carousel in 2016... read
Cloud migration offers various methodologies

AJ Hartenberg

Cloud is one of the most significant over-arching growth trends driving digital transformation today. Although in South Africa we are seeing some uptake of this technology... read
Cyber Security
Insufficient security a concern for IT decision makers
Insufficient wireless security is a concern for 71% of the information technology decision makers (ITDMs), according to a new survey from Fortinet... read
Network
Maximizing business performance with mobility
As more employees work remotely the need for mobility has spiked. In order to perform business tasks, employees need to be able to access central resources from remote locations and with various devices... read
Conditional approval for Vodacom/Neotel deal but a no to MTN/Telkom deal

George Miller

The decline in revenue from voice services results in mobile network operators becoming dependent on data revenue to remain profitable. Mobile broadband spectrum is, however, a scarce resource... read
Services
Business continuity plan must be put into operation timeously
ContinuitySA, a provider of business continuity solutions, says there is a growing number of organisations in the private and public sectors that have business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place... read
Software
Software-based video conferencing expands the technology's reach

Stefan Mayer

The rapid expansion of the market for software-based video conferencing and telepresence solutions have not yet (and will most probably never) replace the need for... read
Tech Startups
Young garage developers in the running to start own businesses
Thirty young graduate developers from Khayelitsha and Gugulethu are competing in the MTN SA Foundation Community App Challenge in partnership with mLab... read
Technology
Smartphones will be the centre of IoT ecosystem

Ernst Wittmann

The falling prices and shrinking sizes of computer processors and sensors, coupled with a proliferation of mobile connectivity, is spurring the rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT)... read
Telecommunications
Using international phone cards or VoIP phone services

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

Technology has advanced at a really high rate. Various options are now available to make international business phone calls cheaper than anyone imagined a few years ago... read
International
Wearables market surge led by Apple, Chinese makers
WASHINGTON - The global market for wearable tech surged in the third quarter, fueled by the Apple watch and gains from Chinese manufacturers, a market tracker said on Thursday... read
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Business
Making hard decisions, easier

Deirdre Elphick-Moore

Each day we make thousands of decisions. Most are fairly insignificant, but others carry weight and consequences, like some of the decisions you find yourself having to make... read
New appointments
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  • T-Systems appoints vice president of sales and service management - more info

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