SA’s biggest tech story is playing out in the sky

SA’s biggest tech story is playing out in the sky

There are some major economic transformations that don’t announce themselves. No fanfare, no keynote, no billionaire standing in front of a very large screen. They just quietly become the thing that everything else depends on. Roads did it. Electricity did it. The...

Argility completes world-first workspace migration

Argility, the Google Workspace Premier Partner and Smollan Technologies company, has announced the successful completion of a group-wide migration of Smollan  from Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace. The project ranks among the most complex multi-domain, multi-region...
Money for nothing …

Money for nothing …

By Barry Buck, with Claude Opus 4.8 – Last week OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, and the AGI era was declared — mostly by people with something to sell. OpenAI’s president closed the launch briefing with “Welcome to the AGI era.” Nvidia’s CEO, whose chips trained...

Buying AI was the easy part. The work begins with adoption

Something is happening in the South African market that doesn’t always surface in the enthusiasm around AI. Customers are investing. Pilots are running. Licences are in place. And 12 months later, the question is why it hasn’t delivered. It is not the...
AI becomes a bigger business cost – but what is the return?

AI becomes a bigger business cost – but what is the return?

For many organisations, AI adoption started small, through proof of concepts and small-scale trials, rather than full-scale rollout. By Junaid Kleinschmidt, intelligence lead for Accenture, South Africa Teams tested chatbots, employees began using generative AI tools,...