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Africa tapped for 1m digital jobs
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a new initiative that will focus on Africa's youth and employment, Digital Jobs Africa. The Rockefeller Foundation's nearly $100-million investment in Digital Jobs Africa will impact 1-million people in Africa through jobs and...
Neotel brings fibre video network to SA
Neotel has launched a local fibre video network solution, Video Connect. Video Connect, designed to offer connectivity and accessibility to key media hotspots globally, was introduced to the market last year, to test its performance and usability. Abid Qadiri, chief...
BT aims to connect 700 000 in Africa
BT has announced its Connecting Africa project, which will bring broadband Internet access to communities across Africa. BT is working with SOS Children’s Villages, an international charity that focusses on children at risk, to connect twenty of the charity’s sites in...
FNB site most popular
In its most recent survey of Web users, Alexa notes that FNB was the only banking Web site in the top 10 sites in Africa, and the most popular banking Web site on the continent. FNB Online CEO Lee-Anne van Zyl comments: “We have over 2,8-million unique visitors to our...
Learn to fail for success
Accepting higher project failure rates can help organisations become more efficient more quickly, according to Gartner. Gartner says project and portfolio management (PPM) leaders who take a "fail-forward-fast" approach that accepts project failure rates of 20% to 28%...
The dangers of BYOD implementation
According to a Forrester survey carried out in Q4 of 2012 75% of company employees across the globe want to use their personal mobile devices for work on a daily basis. This is a 3% increase from the figures in 2011. Most (76%) of this group is specifically interested...
Balancing security and end-user experience
With growing demand from end-users for smart, mobile technologies that help them do their day to day work more efficiently and effectively, organisations need to put in place holistic enterprise mobility strategies that meet their long-term business needs as well as...
DVT, SYMCO iQ partner for agile ERP
Specialist software and services company DVT has partnered with SYMCO iQ to combine the companies’ strengths in software development, support and maintenance and one of the country’s leading modular enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms. The partnership will...
Creating an African cloud services market
The small to medium sized market is predicted to be one of the fastest and most active adopters of cloud computing services going forward. This is the view of experts in the field who believe that the African market is ideally conditioned for the establishment and...
Mobility delivers real business benefits
Users can’t go far these days without hearing about mobility and how important it has become for both consumers and businesses. However, when looking beyond the hype, it can sometimes be difficult for business leaders to understand exactly how mobile technology can...
Windows Blue to preview in June
Microsoft will demonstrate the much-anticipated “Blue” iteration of Windows 8 – widely expected to be the convergence of mobile and PC operating systems – next month. Julie Larson-Green, corporate vice-president for Windows, yesterday told delegates to the Wired...
Consumer technology influences IT spend
Fewer than 10% of business decision-makers outside of IT are not spending their own budget on technology services, and of the 90% that are, almost a quarter of them earmark 21% or more of their unit's expenditures for IT, according to new research from Forrester....
Africa finds new alliances in the East
Africa is finding more synergy with the emerging markets of Asia than with its traditional trading partners in Europe and North America. This is one of the key messages coming through at the World Economic Forum held this week in Cape Town, and reiterated by BT’s...
Africa tapped for 1m digital jobs
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a new initiative that will focus on Africa's youth and employment, Digital Jobs Africa. The Rockefeller Foundation's nearly $100-million investment in Digital Jobs Africa will impact 1-million people in Africa through jobs and...
Neotel brings fibre video network to SA
Neotel has launched a local fibre video network solution, Video Connect. Video Connect, designed to offer connectivity and accessibility to key media hotspots globally, was introduced to the market last year, to test its performance and usability. Abid Qadiri, chief...
BT aims to connect 700 000 in Africa
BT has announced its Connecting Africa project, which will bring broadband Internet access to communities across Africa. BT is working with SOS Children’s Villages, an international charity that focusses on children at risk, to connect twenty of the charity’s sites in...
FNB site most popular
In its most recent survey of Web users, Alexa notes that FNB was the only banking Web site in the top 10 sites in Africa, and the most popular banking Web site on the continent. FNB Online CEO Lee-Anne van Zyl comments: “We have over 2,8-million unique visitors to our...
Learn to fail for success
Accepting higher project failure rates can help organisations become more efficient more quickly, according to Gartner. Gartner says project and portfolio management (PPM) leaders who take a "fail-forward-fast" approach that accepts project failure rates of 20% to 28%...
The dangers of BYOD implementation
According to a Forrester survey carried out in Q4 of 2012 75% of company employees across the globe want to use their personal mobile devices for work on a daily basis. This is a 3% increase from the figures in 2011. Most (76%) of this group is specifically interested...
Balancing security and end-user experience
With growing demand from end-users for smart, mobile technologies that help them do their day to day work more efficiently and effectively, organisations need to put in place holistic enterprise mobility strategies that meet their long-term business needs as well as...