Jan 26, 2017
The proposed National Integrated ICT Policy White Paper could set South Africa’s ICT industry back significantly – and we might see legal challenges if government attempts to implement it as it stands. The white paper was pushed through despite inadequate...
Jan 25, 2017
Jonas Bogoshi is to lead Dell EMC’s channel team in South Africa and the SADC region. Bogoshi was country manager of EMC in South Africa prior to the merger of Dell and EMC in September 2016. In December it was announced that Dell country manager Doug Wooley is...
Jan 24, 2017
GOES-16, the first spacecraft in NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, has sent the first high-resolution images from its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument. Included among them are a composite colour full-disk visible image of the Western...
Jan 23, 2017
Samsung has confirmed that errors in its batteries caused some of its Galaxy Note7 devices to overheat, and has implemented a series of safety protocols to prevent the situation arising again. “For the last several months, together with independent industry...
Jan 20, 2017
After years of relentless focus on costs, settlements and regulations, the future of banking is looking brighter, agreed panellists in a session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. On the regulatory front, the majority predicted a significant paring-back of...
Jan 19, 2017
Earth’s 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880 – the third year in a row for new record highs. According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),...
