SA schools’ team wins CERN competition

Students from two South African schools – St Johns College and Barnato Park High School – has won CERN’s 2015 beamline for schools competition.  The “Accelerating Africa” team shares the honour with the “Leo4G” team from Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci School in...

Wearables still on upward trajectory

The wearables market maintained its upward trajectory in the first quarter of 2015 as new vendors, including Apple, prepared to enter the market. A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker estimates that...

CFOs still make decisions on ‘gut feel’

Almost half of chief financial officers (46%) rely on “gut-feel” and instinct to make business decisions in the absence of fast access to accurate internal data – a practice that can delay decision-making, introduce errors and erode profitability. These are just...

Business as usual as BCX awaits merger call

Business Connexion confirms that it is “business as usual” while the company awaits the final decision on its proposed merger with Telkom. On 14 May 2015, Business Connexion Group (BCX) and Telkom Group reported that the Competition Commission of South Africa had...

Simpler access to free WiFi for non-Telkom users

Telkom has announced enhancements to its free WiFi offering that will make access to Internet and the management of time online, for non-Telkom customers, much easier across more than 6000 WiFi hotspots nationally. Manelisa Mavuso, Telkom’s MD: content and value-added...

Cell C voices concern on Vodacom-Neotel merger

Cell C has issued a statement voicing its concern that, since the apparent approval of the Vodacom-Neotel transaction, ICASA has not published its decision nor explained the reasons for this decision. “With the exception of comments attributed to the outgoing...