OpenWorld: not just tech and yachts

Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – The America’s Cup and OpenWorld are not the only reasons Oracle is in the headlines this week – local TV news stations have been prominently featuring a lawsuit that a San Francisco strip club has brought against the...

Etisalat goes big with M2M

Etisalat Group, a telecoms operator in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has pioneered machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and is gearing up to showcase the industry’s potential. Khalifa Al Shamsi, chief digital services officer at Etisalat, says: “Having launched a...

US, China lead in tech innovation

Technology executives worldwide believe that the US and China are the top two countries with the greatest potential to drive technology breakthroughs that will have a global impact in the next four years, according to the Global Technology Innovation survey by KPMG....

Schools win R200k worth of technology

Neotel, in partnership the Department of Communications, Gauteng Department of Education and Huawei, has announced that Kingsway Secondary School, Phomolong Secondary School and Willowmoore High School have won the IgniteIT ICT schools competition. The winning schools...

Tech drives new behaviours

By Kathy Gibson, Satnac 2013, Stellenbosch – In the last decade, digital technologies have changed our lives, driving new behaviours. But why is broadband important? And why don’t we just continue to use copper infrastructure? Asks Lu LiangJi, managing principle...