Women earn more if work is segregated

Women earn relatively more money when they choose careers not dominated by men, new research suggests. A study of 20 industrialised nations found that in countries where men and women worked in different occupations, there was not such pay inequality between them. The...

MWeb Business launches virtual data centre

MWeb Business has launched a cloud-based service that frees corporates from the expense and hassle of setting up, operating and maintaining a dedicated data centre – without compromising on data security or the flexibility and control of their IT infrastructure....

Labour governance under the spotlight

A prominent industrial relations professor has called for an assessment of the different forms of global labour governance in the light of claims from China Labour Watch that Apple’s new cheaper iPhone is being produced in poor working conditions at Jabil Circuit’s...

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...

EMC, NetApp lead storage market

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted a year-over-year decline of -0,8%, totaling just over $5,9-billion, in the second quarter of 2013 (2Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems...