Samsung unveils Digital Village for Africa

Samsung Electronics Africa has showcased the company’s first ever Digital Village – solutions that use a renewable and environmentally friendly resource (solar) to improve the lives of Africa’s inhabitants. “Everyone speaks of the need to bridge the digital divide but...

Data the hero as MTN reports marginal growth

Although its subscriber growth has been impacted by price competition and registration regulations, MTN has reported 203,8-million subscribers as at the end of the third quarter. With the South African market still challenging, the operator has reported growth of...

CIOs must plan for data centre growth

The increasing business demands on IT mean that data centre managers must plan to increase their organisation’s computing and storage capacity at a considerable rate in the coming years, according to Gartner. Organisations that plan well can adjust to rapid growth in...

Young workers snub work policies

There is a growing appetite among Generation Y employees to contravene corporate policies governing use of own devices, personal cloud storage accounts and new technologies such as smart watches, Google Glass and connected cars. This is one of the findings from an...

IBM: focus innovation for transformation

The innovations that will successfully transform South Africa will be those that are right for the conditions and needs in the country, because innovation simply for the sake of innovation does not help the world work better. This is according to Abe Thomas, IBM South...

New GM for MWeb Business

MWeb has appointed Debbie Pretorius as general manager (GM) of MWeb Business. Pretorius has worked in the Internet service provider (ISP) industry for the past 15 years. Most recently she headed up MWeb Business’ operational activities, and was responsible for...