Apr 21, 2015
South Africa’s Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA) has urged government to build a monument to the future by tripling its proposed R1,1-billion broadband investment, while also providing roll-out specifics. Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene allocated...
Apr 17, 2015
Worldwide IT spending is set to shrink to $3,66-trillion in 2015, a 1,3% decrease from 2014, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Gartner says that the rising dollar is chiefly responsible for the slowdown. “We forecast US-dollar-valued worldwide IT...
Mar 31, 2015
FNB is seeing continuous growth in online shopping spend by its credit card holders. January 2015 statistics reveal that online shopping now accounts for 12% of total credit card purchases – a 7% increase from the same period in 2014. The majority of these online...
Mar 11, 2015
The South African mining industry has experienced a significant decrease in profitability over the past two years. This decline is primarily the result of rising energy costs, labour unrest, the demand for increased wages, and older and deeper mines resulting in...
Feb 24, 2015
Small business owners no longer need to see IT as a grudge purchase, says Brian Timperley from Cloudware Technologies. One of the key enablers to doing business in today’s world is technology – go into any small office, and the desktop computers and laptops on...
