All change for new Altron TMT division

Allied Electronics (Altron) has announced that a new division, Altron TMT (Telecommunications, Multimedia and Information Technology), will be created following the operative date of the acquisition of the minority shares in Allied Technologies (Altech). Approval has...

IM landscape changes rapidly in SA

The rapid growth of the WhatsApp instant messaging (IM) client and the decline in the volume of chat messages going through MXit over the past 12 months in South Africa, are indicative of the change in the way people are using their mobile phones to communicate with...

SA CIOs can drive business innovation

The pace of change in the world of IT is phenomenal; every three months, new trends and technologies emerge that change the way people live and work. Keeping up with ongoing technological revolutions and further applying them to solve business problems has become a...

Attitudes changing towards telecommuting

While telecommuting is nothing new to European and American markets, many companies in South Africa have viewed it with a fair degree of scepticism. However, says Mike van Lier, business leader for IT Solutions at Samsung SA, innovations in technologies are seeing...

IT demographics change encouraging

Young black males are emerging as a dominant force in SA’s IT industry, according to an IT Skills Survey conducted recently by Network IT Recruitment. The changing demographics were in line with the country’s B-BBE policies and were hugely encouraging for the IT...