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Public sector skills: vision needed
Government needs to build up skills for its own needs as well as the country’s. That won’t be easy.
Will the cloud change BI forever?
Unstructured data and cloud technologies have BI practitioners thinking hard.
Demographic shift
Cisco’s first networkers’ conference in the Middle East highlighted the changing makeup of the world’s population.
What can BPM do?
There’s a big gap between the theory and practice, particularly when it comes to management disciplines.
The new creation journey
Scientists across the globe, including South Africa, will now join in the search for how the universe was created.
Electric white elephant
The notion that a locally-made electric car will be successful is a delusion.
Will the real story please stand up?
The ICT sector is by no means the only one where information released and reported is often not the whole story. Sometimes it looks like one of the worst, though. Maybe it’s time to get real?
Fifa freezes and platform shakeups
Will 2010 be a good year for ERP? It depends who you’re selling it to.
The Case For Online
SOFTWARE - MARKETING APPLICATIONS Words: Carel Alberts Viva the advertising revolution! South African online ad revenue will reach R200 million this year, up from R183 million in 2006.
A Bird’s Eye View
HARDWARE - PRINTERS Words: Carel Alberts STAT ATTACK The following sets of statistics give a start to that most elusive state of knowledge in the vast printing industry: an overview.
Different Mobile Strokes for Different Folks
HARDWARE - MOBILE DEVICES Words: Janet Paterson and Paul Hartley PREDICTION CEO designate of Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) Simon Beresford-Wylie has predicted that there will be more than five billion mobile phone subscriptions by 2015, with the majority coming from emerging markets – and the uptake will splinter mobility.
New Devices
HARDWARE - MOBILE DEVICES Words: Janet Paterson and Paul Hartley WHAT’S COMING? Perhaps the most difficult element to define for the crystal-ball gazer, the mobile phone of the future is likely to be both very similar and radically different to current devices, depending on how you look at it.