African development is still constrained

Sep 2, 2015

Development on the African continent continues to be affected by insufficient resources. This is according to Armando Manuel, president of the African Group and Minister of Finance of Angola, in a speech to participants at the Luanda Caucus 2015 meeting. “This...

Opera partners to reach 10m African readers

Sep 2, 2015

Worldreader, a global non-profit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital books, has partnered with Opera Software to reach 1-million readers in Africa by the end of the year.

Governance under the spotlight at Smexa 2015

Sep 2, 2015

The rapidly-changing IT world – with cloud computing, shadow IT, increased mobility and rapid consumerisation – is a major cause of headaches for CIOs and IT service managers as they struggle to prove their relevance. But the very nature of the changing...

SA inventors show their paces

Sep 2, 2015

An early warning device to predict asthma attacks was the winning invention at the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) Inventor’s Garage at the SA Innovation Summit. The Asthma Grid was the invention of PhD student Moses Kebalepile, who walked away with R25 000...

Deadline looms for ICT Achievers nominations

Sep 2, 2015

South Africans interested in nominating fellow citizens for the country’s premier ICT Achievers Awards have until next Friday (11 September 2015) to submit nominations. “We’re expecting a surge in nominations this week and next. The ICT sector...

Mixed results for WLAN market in Q2

Sep 2, 2015

The combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments decreased -5,3% year over year in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15). According to the preliminary results published in the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...