With more sunshine than any other place on the planet, Africa should be leading the way in solar energy provision and development.

The harsh reality of the global contact centre industry is that these valuable resources are being underutilised by most organisations and that most staff work under extremely stressful environments that are generally isolated from the organisational structure, its people and processes.

The limitations of Linux forced Nando`s to re-evaluate the role IT plays within the organisation.

The things that raised a chuckle.

Microsoft`s surface computer has interesting prospects for the future of interaction, but it could go the same way as other touch-sensitive devices.

IBM has introduced its new Power6 processor, along with a number of benchmark statistics that prove it`s the fastest chip available.

Fujitsu-Siemens and Sun Microsystems have co-developed a range of Sparc servers. The two might be pals in the R&D classroom, but there`s an intense rivalry on the school ground

Running a $30 billion networking company with 55 000 employees is not too dissimilar to running a small country. So, what makes Cisco CEO and chairman John Chambers tick?

Can AMD undo the market share and share price declines it has experienced over the past year or is Intel preparing to finally steam ahead?

Four Dimension Data companies have been consolidated under a new name. Although they have each retained their individual brand names, this may change over time.

Independent software vendor SAP has made a number of changes in its approach to products, which includes the technology that it believes businesses will need to take them forward in a rapidly globalising, constantly evolving business world.

Afgri`s Producer Services division implemented a home-grown ERP solution to manage its vastly expanded enterprise in record time.

Adobe`s Bob Donlon was in South Africa last month to show off some of the company`s new video-editing tools, and talk about the future of Flash, television and the internet.

T-Systems has increased its BEE shareholding and taken on a new partner.

The business intelligence sector is a tough market to conquer. Now traditional data warehouse software companies such as Oracle are making inroads where few dare to tread.

This year`s ITWeb Security Summit was a feast of international speakers, solid security advice and real hacking.

The departure of Jonas Bogoshi from the State IT Agency (Sita) and its slowpoke approach to appointing a new CEO is viewed as a recipe for disaster.

Having been criticised in the past for not meeting its own deadlines on public service delivery, the government is plugging into a new network system.

With hindsight, many innovations seem obvious.

This wasn`t intended as a column extolling the virtues of reading history. Yet if only Poison Ivy would do so, she might actually “connect us to the future”, to use her words.