By Dawie Hanekom, Marketing Director at Sulaco New Media As the country prepares to host one of international football’s most prestigious tournaments, the FIFA World Cup, a number of industries are gearing up to take maximum advantage of commercial opportunities.…

Deputy chief executive Vittorio Colao has become the boss of Vodafone after taking on the role held by Arun Sarin for the past five years. The handover at the company’s annual meeting came as shareholders voted on Vodafone’s £1 billion…

The Sahara Group has announced its intention to restructure its subsidiary portfolio as part of its strategy to manage and leverage off higher levels of growth it continues to experience.

East African states are meeting in Nairobi to discuss plans for regional ICT policy harmonization and to determine if and how a single regulation policy can be applied uniformly.

Integr8 IT, South Africa’s largest privately owned national BEE ICT network integration and infrastructure management specialist, has been nominated to compete in no less than five categories at the annual Microsoft Partner Programme Awards 2008 to be held in Durban…

Microsoft is making heavy investments in its internet business as the software giant finally said it has finished pursuing rival Yahoo. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said “There’s nothing under discussion between the two of us. We had a set of…

Member states of the East African Community (EAC) have resolved to come up with a harmonized Information Communication technology (ICT) policy to promote regional integration to yield effective business investment opportunities.

Websense®, Inc., a global leader in integrated Web, messaging and data protection technology, today announced that Gartner, Inc.

Workgroup’sdedicated Business Objects division has announced the general local availability of Xcelsius Engage 2008, a professional business tool that helps leverage live data in interactive presentations turning static meetings into productive work sessions.

South Africa’s award-winning multilingual software developer, Translate.org.za, has been awarded a grant by the Mozilla Corporation to extend its translation tools.

Integr8 IT, South Africa’s largest privately owned national BEE ICT network integration and infrastructure management specialist and associate to the Integr8 Group, has been identified as the front runner for the Top ICT Project Innovation in Africa Award as presented…

Bill and Melinda Gates announced yesterday that they were joining Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, in a $500m campaign against smoking in the developing world.

The Competition Commission said it filed a perjury charge against one of Vodacom Group Ltd.’s executives for intentionally providing it with false information about a proposed merger.

Internet search leader Google has signed a letter of intent with Digg to purchase the social news site for around $200 million the influential technology blog TechCrunch reported on Tuesday.

Steinmüller Engineering Services (Pty) Ltd., part of a leading group of international engineering companies, offering a wide range of plant life cycle services to various industries, has partnered with Integr8 IT to power up its IT capability and technical resources…

Kenya has banned use of cell phones in schools as one way to contain scholars’ rioting, which hit the country over the weekend.