Ideas to radically change human existence sought

Nokia Bell Labs has opened its global competition for the fourth annual Nokia Bell Labs Prize. The award recognises innovators with game-changing ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics with the potential to disrupt or profoundly change the state of...

Anti-corruption hotline shows results

More than 3 000 officials have been found guilty of misconduct related to cases reported via the National Anti-Corruption Hotline (NACH). This is according to Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba, leading a briefing of the Governance and Administration Cluster at the...

SUSE completes asset acquisition from HPE

SUSE has completed its acquisition of technology and talent from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), which was announced late last year. SUSE will use the acquired assets to expand its OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution and accelerate the...

Weaker growth for enterprise WLAN market

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments decreased 0,1% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2016 (4Q16), and increased 3,1% for the full year to finish at $2,43-billion. According to the results published in...

Syspro appoints new MD for Africa

Syspro has appointed Mark Wilson as the new MD for Africa effective January 2017. Wilson has over 20 years of professional experience within the IT industry, having held various executive roles including, financial director, MD and vice-president positions in the...

Jan du Plessis takes over as BT chairman

Jan du Plessis will succeed Sir Mike Rake as chairman of BT. He will join the board as a non-executive director from 1 June 2017 and become chairman with effect from 1 November 2017 when Sir Mike will retire from BT, following 10 years as chairman. Du Plessis has been...