Containing the cost of compliance

Compliance is increasingly becoming a pressing issue for CTOs and CIO’s in South Africa who are struggling to get to grips the fulfilment of legislative requirements and importantly, containing costs associated with this, says Bryan Balfe, enterprise account manager...
Apple maximises iPhone profits

Apple maximises iPhone profits

For consumers opting to buy Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus rather than the iPhone 6, the additional 0,8-inches of screen size will cost $100 extra. However, for Apple, the iPhone 6 Plus costs only about $16 more to produce.

XDSL upgrades fibre at no extra cost

Internet service provider (ISP) XDSL is upgrading all its fibre broadband customers to dedicated Internet connectivity – that’s Internet at full capacity of a user’s fibre broadband connection, whether 25Mbps or 100Mbps – at no additional cost.

The cost of vandalism in Jo’burg

Vandalism and theft of Johannesburg’s road infrastructure have cost R57,46-million in the last year. The M1, M2 and Soweto highways are hardest hit and everything is targeted; from guardrails, storm water drain slabs, manhole covers and grids, metal directional signage, poles and gantries, bridge expansion joints and bridge railings.

Avoiding the high cost of human error

Companies, small and large, are potentially losing millions of rands to human error, or employee misunderstanding, by its more diplomatic name, says Mark Robson, executive director and co-founder of PRP Solutions. This is defined as actions by employees who have...