Court deems Sassa contract unconstitutional
The South African Constitutional Court has ruled that the tender process followed by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) in awarding a contract to Net1’s wholly-owned subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) was constitutionally invalid. However, the...SA retailers lead in mobile payments
Turning mobile phones into wallets has been a dream for a long time. The phone is already an address book, camera, diary, music player, GPS system, notebook, dictaphone, photo album and general factotum – why shouldn’t it also replace a wallet, with all its clunky...PaaS tipped to exceed $14bn
The International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that the worldwide public platform as a service (PaaS) market is expected to grow to over $14-billion in 2017. The opportunities for monetising public PaaS functionality are high in light of the advances being made in...Spies to take on new CEO role
By Mark Davison – After more than six months in the wilderness, one of the local IT channel’s most respected executives, Pierre Spies, is returning to the realm he relishes – as CEO of one of the country’s biggest distributors. Following lengthy negotiations,...iPad Air in store within a week
The new iPad Air will be available from Core Group in South Africa by the end of next week. “We are thrilled to announce the launch of iPad Air in South Africa. iPad created an entirely new mobile computing experience, and the new iPad Air is another big leap ahead....