SA’s Mark Shuttleworth has decided to step down as CEO of Canonical, the corporate sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Shuttleworth says in a post on his blog, published on Thursday, that chief operating officer Jane Silber will take over as CEO from March. Shuttleworth says he will continue to be actively involved with [...]
T-Systems SA has finally acquired Arivia.kom from Transnet and Eskom, two years after the state-owned IT company was put on the chopping block. The company confirmed on Thursday that it had signed the deal. The German-owned T-Systems will acquire 100% of the shareholding in Arivia.kom while simultaneously taking over the IT service contracts for both [...]
The Democratic Alliance on Thursday said new SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle had undermined the public broadcaster’s independence by saying he was accountable to communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda. The party pointed out that he should rather consider himself accountable to the SABC board and to parliament. Mokoetle reportedly said in a radio interview that he considered [...]
SA’s technology industry grabbed more public attention in 2009 than it has in years. In spite of the recession, the news flow has been constant, and not all of it has been bad. Undoubtedly, the biggest story of the year on the business front was Telkom’s sale and unbundling of its 50% stake in cellular [...]
The SABC has appointed former Telkom Media chief content officer Solly Mokoetle as its new CEO, it said in a statement on Tuesday. “The decision to appoint Mokoetle was based on his experience and a proven track record during the time the SABC was profitable, making him the most suitable candidate,” the broadcaster’s interim board [...]
Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt has kept a low profile since his appointment in March, declining interviews and not speaking publicly about the company’s strategy. But last week he unveiled plans to spend billions of rand on a wireless broadband network Cell C’s decision to build SA’s most advanced third generation (3G) broadband cellular network is a brave move. The cellular operator, SA’s smallest wit
SA investors can now trade on the world’s best-known IT names, Microsoft and Google, the JSE said on Tuesday. This follows the exchanges listing of single stock futures (SSFs) on both companies. “Like other international derivatives products, retail investors can trade in these two American companies without using their R2m foreign allowance,” the bourse says. [...]
Analyst firm Gartner predicts that IT spending in SA will decline by 2% in 2009 but will return to growth in 2010, with spending likely to rise by about 6%, thanks in part to spending associated with the 2010 Fifa World Cup. “IT end-user spending in SA is on pace to reach US$24,6bn in 2009, [...]
When I meet Microsoft SA MD Mteto Nyati, it isn’t long before the conversation turns to Windows Vista. Except, I don’t steer it there, Nyati does. He volunteers that Microsoft has “learnt a lot” from the “disaster” (his description) that was Vista. Reviewers and commentators met Windows Vista, the company’s much-maligned operating system released in [...]
Internet retailers appear to be weathering the recession better than their bricks-and-mortar counterparts, with those polled by TechCentral reporting strong growth over last year’s festive season. Arthur Goldstuck, MD of research firm World Wide Worx, says he expects local e-retailers to benefit from a 20% to 25% increase in online retail sales in SA in [...]
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