Local loop unbundling is touted as a must in order for South Africa to have a competitive telecoms environment. Is the market ready?

Is the IT industry about to benefit from companies spending the money they are saving on their telecoms bills? It depends on whom you ask.

Ideas never keep to business hours, which means that not being able to access reliable, current data will impede any decision-making process.

Durban isn`t the first South African city to create an incubation centre for start-up ICT companies, but its SmartXchange claims to go a step beyond better-known centres.

Last year, Enterprise Connection was talking of a new strategy – to change trading name and gear up for serious growth. Not two months later, Faritec announced it had acquired the company. Where did the growth strategy go, and where are the two organisations going to take the new Faritec?

Testing is an important facet of software development – and a number of vendors peddle automated testing tools. The tools can be useful, but they are by no means an elixir for software developers.

Globalisation brings far-flung suppliers – and customers – right to your doorstep. Is IT prepared for the challenges this presents?

The industry is in a tizz over Microsoft sitting on a key international committee deciding the fate of a standard that competes with its own.

Bandwidth limitations and high prices exclude South Africa from Microsoft`s rollout of Office Live, for now.

At face value, Engen Petroleum`s Peter du Plooy seems an average South African CIO, focused on mapping IT services to business strategy and keeping the technology wheels turning. Delve a little deeper and you find an individual with strong drive and ambition, as well as a high regard for skills and constant improvement.

With the second network operator coming into play and promising competition, efforts to grow its business and branch into new markets are being met with some hostility.

Dramatically reduced functionality, then delayed… Just what is Microsoft doing with Vista?

New HP notebooks pit the OS protagonists against each other.

Swahili restaurant in Rivonia offers visitors a unique experience and a taste of the exotic.

Global must sees for the business traveller

A proudly South African drink is taking coffee shop patrons by storm.

Could a 2 500-year-old guidebook to waging war successfully be South Africa`s blueprint for global competitiveness and economic growth?

Knowing customers is one thing. Understanding them is another. Users tell us whether the technology is a true route to customer understanding.

Every logistics-focused organisation faces challenges in managing its supply chain.

‘The right to be left alone` is not an ancient right, unlike property law or contract law. It is also not nearly a settled law. Problem is, everyone from the Orwellian paranoiac to the insouciant naïf is probably wrong in their view about the use and abuse of personal information.