Olympic torch back from space

The Olympic torch that will be used to open the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, has completed a sojourn in space and this morning landed back on Earth. The torch arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and was...

Financial challenges limit EAS growth

Overall enterprise applications software (EAS) spending in South Africa is set to increase 10,5% year-on-year in 2014 to total $518,45-million, according to the latest South Africa Enterprise Applications Software Market 2013–2017 Forecast from International Data...

Fear of cyber-threats leaves systems exposed

Recent publicity about cyber-attacks and data security breaches has increased IT risk awareness among CIOs, chief information security officers (CISOs) and senior business executives. However, Gartner’s 2013 Global Risk Management Survey found that fear of...

Healthy six months for Vodacom

Vodacom has reported a group revenue increase of 6,6%, a service revenue increase of 2%, strong growth in international operations and improved growth trends in South Africa for the latest six month period. Group active customers increased 9,7% to 53,8-million; with...

Telkom revises innovation challenge rules

Telkom has revised the rules of the Open Innovation Mega Challenge to ensure that participating innovators and the company are well protected with regard to the ownership of intellectual property rights. Initially the rules of competition were designed to mitigate...