Technology News
DoC advances broadband policy
The Department of Communications (DoC) is urging all stakeholders to get involved in advancing South Africa's broadband policy and strategy. The SA Connect strategy was adopted by Cabinet on 4 December 2013 and, since then the DoC has connected 788 schools to fast...
Businesses unprepared for security breaches
Despite 77% of companies having suffered a cyber-security incident in the past two years, more than one-third (38%) still have no incident response plan in place should an incident occur. And only 17% of businesses globally are fully prepared for an online security...
Job applicants want to know salary values
Recruitment advertisements that include salary information are more likely to garner responses than those that don’t. This is one of the conclusions that CareerJunction has reached from analysing online recruitment trends. The company conducted an analysis of 1 000...
SA sites will have access to web.za domains
South Africa's web.za second level domain (SLD) is being relaunched, and will soon be available to the public following sunrise and landrush phases where the rights of intellectual property holders will be prioritised and premium names delegated. This is according to...
Discover Digital gears up for Internet TV
South African digital entertainment company Discover Digital has concluded its first sports content deal in anticipation of the launch of Internet television in South Africa later this year. The company has acquired the streaming, download and electronic sell through...
Education a big mobile app driver
Educational apps rank ninth among all app categories, with 17% of mobile media users across the globe downloading an educational app. This is a slight decline from 20% in 2012, but should be taken in the context of the trend in overall app consumption identified in...
DiData aims for $4bn data centre by 2018
Dimension Data plans to quadruple the size of its data centre business to $4-billion in the next five years. The group’s existing $1-billion data centre business has a significant presence in all major regions. It’s looking to aggressively grow and scale these...
Pinnacle director’s bribery case postponed
The bribery case against Pinnacle executive director Takalani Tshivhase has been postponed until June. Tshivhase appeared in court yesterday (24 April), and the case was postponed to 2 June 2014. Tshivhase is alleged to have offered a lieutenant-general of the South...
Wireless Technologies Forum set to meet
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has engaged the Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) to assist in bringing stakeholders from the regulatory field and industry together to discuss new and innovative technologies, products and...
ASA rules for MTN
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has dismissed an application lodged against MTN South Africa for the Mobile Money Reseller Project advertisement. Cell C lodged the complaint against MTN on the basis that the campaign was misleading and dishonest. The ASA...
BYOD is usurped by CYOD in 2014
Until very recently enterprise mobility has been considered one of the most disruptive trends. While it is exactly that, there is a misconception as to why it is so disruptive. Quinton Pienaar, CEO of Agilitude, the first African Salesforce.com reseller, says that it...
Shadow IT illuminates business, IT gap
As TDWI put it in its story, Meet the new BI-Enabled IT, “Industry luminary Jill Dyche champions a new, more responsive IT – enabled by business analytics.” Dyche was addressing attendees of TDWI’s World Conference in Las Vegas and offered alternative roles for IT: as...
Security challenges in a virtual world
Mobility and cloud computing are currently hot topics in the IT space, enabling users to work on the move and from practically anywhere in the world. However, in order to deliver the full capabilities of these two technologies, virtualisation is critical to creating a...
DoC advances broadband policy
The Department of Communications (DoC) is urging all stakeholders to get involved in advancing South Africa's broadband policy and strategy. The SA Connect strategy was adopted by Cabinet on 4 December 2013 and, since then the DoC has connected 788 schools to fast...
Businesses unprepared for security breaches
Despite 77% of companies having suffered a cyber-security incident in the past two years, more than one-third (38%) still have no incident response plan in place should an incident occur. And only 17% of businesses globally are fully prepared for an online security...
Job applicants want to know salary values
Recruitment advertisements that include salary information are more likely to garner responses than those that don’t. This is one of the conclusions that CareerJunction has reached from analysing online recruitment trends. The company conducted an analysis of 1 000...
SA sites will have access to web.za domains
South Africa's web.za second level domain (SLD) is being relaunched, and will soon be available to the public following sunrise and landrush phases where the rights of intellectual property holders will be prioritised and premium names delegated. This is according to...
Discover Digital gears up for Internet TV
South African digital entertainment company Discover Digital has concluded its first sports content deal in anticipation of the launch of Internet television in South Africa later this year. The company has acquired the streaming, download and electronic sell through...
Education a big mobile app driver
Educational apps rank ninth among all app categories, with 17% of mobile media users across the globe downloading an educational app. This is a slight decline from 20% in 2012, but should be taken in the context of the trend in overall app consumption identified in...
DiData aims for $4bn data centre by 2018
Dimension Data plans to quadruple the size of its data centre business to $4-billion in the next five years. The group’s existing $1-billion data centre business has a significant presence in all major regions. It’s looking to aggressively grow and scale these...