Digital TV switch-on in sight - but service is not yet ready THE department of communications has set the date for the digital switch-on of public broadcast television for November 1 this year. This does not mean, however, that ordinary people, especially the poor, will be able to watch their free-...

I just got access to a new beta site that is attempting to do for mobile sites for what Feedburner did for RSS feeds. The site is called Mobile Fusion, or MoFuse for short. It only takes a few minutes to setup. Once you login, you create a mobile site, which is done by pointing MoFuse to your siteâ€...

By Sandra Vogel Design Despite its ’semi-ruggedised’ classification, the Toughbook CF-52 is a seriously solid-looking notebook. When closed it looks more like a slim briefcase than a portable computer, thanks to its hard outer shell and built-in carrying handle. The shell comprises a lid...

By David Meyer, ZDNet UK SAP and RIM have announced a “co-innovation” partnership which will see all the enterprise-software company’s applications made natively available on the BlackBerry smartphone. The companies announced on Friday that the first of SAP’s software to make...

Dell and Ericsson have teamed up to bring users a new way to stay connected during travel and while away from the office. By utilizing mobile broadband networks, Dell and Ericsson are offering users connection options for their laptop computers. Dell’s next generation laptops will be able to ...

Picture the domestic worker who catches a taxi from her township to the nearest bank or from a rural settlement to the nearest town to check whether her social grant or salary has been paid. It is a busy Saturday morning, so she queues first for a taxi then again at the bank. Her indirect bank charg...

The role of an enterprise architect spans both Information Technology (IT) and business. It becomes part of how an organisation makes decisions and investments so that business strategy can be realised. What is an enterprise architect? As an enterprise architect, you are able to plug into an organis...