African voices on poetry Web site

The voices of Africa and the African diaspora can now be easily accessed via smart- and feature phones on a new site: www. badilishapoetry.com. The Badilisha Poetry X-Change formed its distinctive online platform in 2012, and now features 350 poets from 22 countries...

Self-driving cars close to reality

A Gartner research report has found that self-driving and autonomous vehicles are much closer to reality than most people and businesses realise. Over the next six years, self-aware vehicles will emerge first that are increasingly also able to autonomously sense,...

What SA needs to do to fix manufacturing

For South Africa to become a top-class manufacturing nation, South Africa needs to fix some fundamental problems while nurturing skills and driving demand. Coenraad Bezuidenhout, executive director of the Manufacturing Circle, told delegates to the Siemens Future of...

IBM, Microsoft collaborate on cloud

IBM and Microsoft are working together to provide their respective enterprise software on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. As the adoption of hybrid cloud computing accelerates, this relationship will give clients, partners and developers more choice in the cloud,...

Digital migration deadline set for 2015

The Department of Communications has set June 2015 as the deadline to begin digital migration, but has offered no guidelines as to when the process should be completed. Deputy Minister of Communications, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, says the department has a...

Siemens helps to drive SA’s manufacturing

Industry, government and industrial labour need to develop a shared purpose to drive the manufacturing industry in South Africa. Raymond Padayachee, vice-president: process industries and drives at Siemens Southern and Eastern Africa, says Siemens is prepared to take...