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 | Dave Meintjies If you're a South African business there's every chance that you're stuck in a dysfunctional relationship with your telco. read more>> |
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 | Paul Fick Mergers and acquisitions are useful when it comes to helping organisations to achieve business objectives. However, this strategy has the potential to create enormous complexity when it comes to consolidating the operations of the two disparate organisations involved in the merger or acquisition. read more>> |
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 | Frost & Sullivan has recognised T-Systems with the 2014 South African Company of the Year Award. T-Systems is an outsourcing service provider that offers end-to-end solutions across ICT operations and systems integration, and is particularly strong in the data centre and enterprise resource planning markets. read more>> |
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 | Datacentrix has been named as South Africa's most empowered company within the ICT services sector in two categories, by the Mail & Guardian's "Most empowered companies" study. read more>> |
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 | Aptronics, South Africa's foremost BEE-empowered IT solutions provider, has been recognised for its contributions to the empowerment of women in business. read more>> |
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 | There are regularly stories in the media about companies that accidentally lose data, whether in printout or digital form. Usually, the security focus is on the prevention of external threats, such as viruses and hackers. read more>> |
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 | Gary Allemann Big data is currently one of the most talked about megatrends affecting the business world, along with cloud computing, customer centricity and data-centric legislation, such as the Protection of Personal Information (PoPI) Act. read more>> |
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 | The proliferation of connected devices has resulted in the exponential increase of real-time data, but data on its own means very little if proper analytics does not take place. Frank Rizzo, Data and Analytics Leader of KPMG South Africa, discusses the importance of data and analytics. read more>> |
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 | All businesses that are looking to outsource their data needs instead of buying, maintaining and hosting their own servers in their own server rooms or data centres, need to do their homework first. read more>> |
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 | South African SMEs are enthusiastically embracing cloud-based applications, such as Dropbox and Google Apps. Though the market is becoming more sophisticated, there are still a few myths that prevail about the risks and benefits of cloud computing, said Ivan Epstein, co-founder of Softline and CEO of Sage AAMEA read more>> |
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 | The Tech Awards has nominated the FunDza Literacy Trust for the 'Microsoft Education Award', for providing 50,000 young South Africans with access to reading material on their cellphones. read more>> |
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 | As part of its on-going commitment to enhancing customer service while ensuring business sustainability and critical mass, Jasco Enterprise has announced the consolidation of its various coastal offices into a single Coastal division which will span the Western and Eastern Capes as well as Kwa-Zulu Natal. read more>> |
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Net1 UEPS Technologies reported a rise in earnings for the year to June‚ boosted by a $26.6m recovery for the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) contract it lost in a court dispute. read more>> |
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 | Morvest, a JSE-listed support services provider reported revenue growth of 15% to R1.1bn for the year to May. read more>> |
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 | The need for CIOs to consider digital ethics has become paramount as the pace of technology change accelerates, according to Gartner, Inc. Analysts are set to discuss the Role of Ethics in Digital Business at the Gartner Africa Symposium/ITxpo 2014, taking place in Cape Town from 10-12 September 2014. read more>> |
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 | Samuel Mungadze MTN has defended its retrenchment plans‚ which has been criticised by the trade union Solidarity and says the process was partly to review the cost structure of operations in South Africa‚ and allow the company to deliver on strategic investments and product innovation. read more>> |
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 | John Eigelaar Biometrics is often thought of as an almost mythical solution, something coming in the future but not here now. However, there are many biometric solutions implemented in financial institutions and hospitals around the world today. read more>> |
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 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: The European Union should convert a whole spectrum of television and radio frequencies for use by mobile broadband by around 2020 as smartphone use soars, a report has urged. read more>> |
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 | LOS ANGELES, USA: The FBI and Apple are urgently investigating an apparent hack of cloud data services that unleashed a torrent of intimate pictures of dozens of celebrities across the Internet. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Facebook said it is dabbling with letting members using smartphones or tablets search for past posts of friends at the leading online social network. read more>> |
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 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korea's Samsung Electronics has refuted fresh allegations by a labour protection watchdog that one of its suppliers in China is using child workers. read more>> |
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 | NEW DELHI, INDIA: "Wizard of Oz" heroine Dorothy only had to click her ruby red slippers together and they would spirit her home to Kansas. read more>> |
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 | SEOUL SOUTH KOREA: South Korea's Samsung and LG unveiled new smartwatches with upgraded functions and design as they step up their drive to lead an increasingly competitive market for wearable devices. read more>> |
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 | GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: The World Economic Forum (WEF) unveiled a project aimed at connecting governments, businesses, academia, technicians and civil society worldwide to brainstorm the best ways to control the internet. read more>> |
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 | NEW DELHI, INDIA: Intex, the manufacturer of a new $33 smartphone billed as India's cheapest said it aims to sell 500,000 devices in the next three months in what it called a "new era" for the market. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Apple will unveil an "iWatch" in September with the manufacturer of the iPhone finally embarking on its much-rumoured foray into wearable computing, technology news website Re/code says. read more>> |
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Hackers believed to be from Russia broke into the computer systems of JPMorgan Chase and a second US bank earlier this month, sparking a federal investigation, US media has reported. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A judge has rejected a bid by Apple to ban US sales of rival Samsung smartphones targeted in a recent $2bn patent trial in Silicon Valley. read more>> |
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 | MONTREAL CANADA: Two of Canada's largest cable companies teamed up to launch an online television service to compete with Netflix, amid fears of dwindling traditional television viewership. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Instagram has launched an application for capturing time-lapse videos using Apple mobile devices. read more>> |
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