Gartner reveals the human capital management vendors which are solving old HR problems in new and interesting ways.

Early tools, such as macro assemblers and interpreters, are created in the 1950s.

As the enterprise market reaches saturation, ERP vendors and integrators of all sizes rush to gain a share of the flourishing SME verticals.

To rent or to own? This is the question facing CIOs and financial departments in the race to keep pace with constantly changing technology.

In a bid to standardise the equipment used by its brokers, Absa Brokers struck a deal with iVolve.

Leasing offers as many advantages as pitfalls. Gartner lays down some basic guidelines to aid the unwary.

In the Web hosting game, service and uptime are the only things that count.

Uptime is king in the new media game, where downtime is lethal and competition fierce. A new Cape-based media company has put all of its eggs in one hoster's basket and is smiling all the way.

1910 - By the time of unification in 1910, the four South African colonies had developed their own postal, telegraph and telephone services. In order to regulate the various services, parliament promulgates the Post Office Administration and Shipping Combinations Discouragement Act. This act is finally superseded by the Post Office Act.

Old-style firewalls and anti-virus solutions are woefully inadequate for the new generation of security threats.

Reduced sign-on has replaced single sign-on (SSO), adding to an alphabet soup of acronyms for CIOs to navigate.

Liberty Life is changing its security architecture, implementing open standards-based technology and, ultimately, decommissioning its mainframe.