Many are touting free, public WiFi as the last-mile solution to connecting the masses. Although bandwidth costs are dropping, is it really possible to give something away, completely free?

Spiwe Chireka is forthright about her ambitions, and with her steely nerve and determination, she might just become the next head of Telkom.

The CIO Council of South Africa was established to bring together senior members of the country's IT community.

The augmented 'Human 2.0' era will soon be upon us. It's early days yet, with consumer wearables dominating the headlines. But by 2020, consumer use will be overshadowed by enterprise interest and uptake.

CMOs must be tech-savvy. CIOs need to embrace marketing as a key player in the enterprise infrastructure. Here's how.

In the first of a two-part series on improving workplace productivity, Janet Paterson talks to productivity strategist Cathy Sexton about strategies to help employees and managers make more of their time.

Despite the attendant hype, virtualisation of the desktop in corporate SA has been moving at less than breakneck speed.

Green IT remains little more than a watchword for most South African IT executives. This attitude is going to have to change, whether they like it or not.

Consumerisation of IT and cloud computing are not just changing the way apps are designed and deployed - they could fundamentally change the role and nature of the IT department.

Thoughtworks banks on enterprises adopting agile software development by releasing its continuous delivery tool Go as open source. The question is: will it `go'?

If a service is free, making money off it requires creativity. Nifty250 is doing just that.

Now an integral part of the telecoms landscape, the feisty third operator outlines its campaign for radical change in the industry.

The variables of the modern IT environment are so many and complex that managing software licences has become an almost impossible task. Brainstorm spoke to three CIOs about how they avoid licensing woes.