Jun 3, 2014
By Kathy Gibson – Companies no longer really have a choice about whether to become digital enterprises: the decision now is about when and how. “Digital is changing the world – how we work, learn, and behave,” says Mike Sutcliff, group chief executive at...
Jun 3, 2014
A great unmet need for agile cloud application development, application scalability, broader data collection, extreme transaction processing and streaming data management are creating a need for multiple big data technologies besides Hadoop. A newly published...
Jun 3, 2014
The Parkhurst Residents and Business Owners Association (PRABOA) has nominated Vumatel as its preferred provider to supply fibre to the area, after a competitive proposal process. The adjudication committee reviewed 16 proposals from operators such as MTN, Vodacom,...
Jun 3, 2014
A sound regulatory framework is vital for the future of wireless technologies in South Africa. The first Future Wireless Technologies Forum, held on 29 May, brought together service providers, equipment manufacturers, and stakeholders from government and the regulator...
Jun 3, 2014
A neurologist who became a classroom teacher will explain how best to stimulate young people’s brains to process information into knowledge and wisdom during the upcoming SABC Education African EduWeek, to be held in Johannesburg in July. Thousands of teachers and...
Jun 3, 2014
The 2014 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Information Technology Report has ranked South Africa’s maths and science education quality as the worst in the world. Furthermore, the overall perceived quality of our education system has also plummeted from 140 to 146 of...
