Western Cape signs LAN deal with Sizwe

Jul 31, 2015

The Western Cape government signed a five-year LAN (local area network) contract with Sizwe Africa IT Group, for the provision of LAN equipment and services to schools in the Western Cape. Premier Helen Zille and Minister Debbie Schäfer say in a joint statement that...
Gloomy picture for SA jobs

Gloomy picture for SA jobs

Jul 30, 2015

Although unemployment improved during the second quarter of 2015, overall figures paint a gloomy picture. Statistics SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the second quarter of 2015 show that South Africa’s working-age population was 36-million people, 15,7-million employed, 5,2-million unemployed and 15,1-million “not economically active”.

Load shedding the main concern for SMEs

Jul 30, 2015

Frequent and prolonged power failures are the top concern for South Africa’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs), overtaking other pressing concerns like access to finance, competition and crime.This is one of the findings from the SME Survey 2015, released today,...

SMEs take to the cloud

Jul 30, 2015

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are recognising the benefits offered by cloud computing and, in 2015, 39% of them are using cloud services – up 10% from 2014. This is according to Arthur Goldstuck, MD of World Wide Worx, releasing results from the latest SME...

Internet of Things drives software shift

Jul 30, 2015

The Internet of Things (IoT) is turning many manufacturers of “things” into first-time software vendors that need licensing and entitlement management (LEM) solutions, according to Gartner. By shifting product value from device hardware to the software...

Tablet market continues global decline

Jul 30, 2015

The worldwide tablet market declined -7% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2015 (2Q15) with shipments totalling 44,7-million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Marked by little...