Things get worse before they get better.

South Africa, ostensibly, has a shortage of spectrum available to use for wireless communications. Brainstorm chats to Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow Steve Song about the alleged spectrum shortage.

Competition is here. Long live competition, or not, as it may well be.

Green IT provides both risks and opportunities for it organisations. Gartner takes a look at green it policy.

Africa is not for sissies, but it is ideal for those who know growth potential when they see it.

The GSMA mobile phone industry association has announced a breakthrough we’ve all been waiting for for years: an agreement among several top mobile phone operators and major handset vendors to standardise chargers by 2012 for most cellphones.

The notion of regulating competitiveness betrays a fundamental failure to grasp what market competition is, and a pathological god complex.

Going green needs to be done sensibly and sustainably, or not at all.

Tough economic times result in more insider threats, which means Identity and Access Management (IAM) needs to be on everyone’s agenda.

Will everybody be doing SOA in 18 months, or has Gartner lost the plot?

MTN is finally winning small battles (and big wars) thanks to its CTO’s passion and vision.

Vinny Lingham may be a betting man, but he’s proved to be a sure thing.

MXit is no longer evil incarnate, but still enjoys a somewhat dubious reputation.

Location. Location. Location. Right now, it’s al the hype in the mobile space.

As entrepreneurs provide cheap telephony to the impoverished, Icasa disconnects the poor.

Observers may be forgiven for thinking South Africa’s telecoms market is overly litigious. But worse is yet to come.

Open source holds significant revenue potential for nascent SMMEs, but a significant shift in mindset is needed.

South Africa and Africa as a whole could escape the worst of the tech jobs armageddon.

Africa is not for sissies, but it is ideal for those who know growth potential when they see it.

There’s always been much mumbling around speech recognition technology, but Nuance aims to clear things up.