On Sunday night, President Rhamaposa announced (Govt) measures to curb the Coronavirus outbreak. In short (DM): 1. Travel to South Africa is banned from high...

In light of all the negativity and panic surrounding the Coronavirus, I thought we would look into the Amazon Go grocery stores. The first Amazon Go stores w...

Coronavirus. Will it affect tech work?

The news that Jeff Bezos may have been hacked by Saudi Arabian Whatsapp malware has once again increased the focus on privacy. Of course, most of us will str...

My IT career got going when the Y2K projects were in full swing. Fortunately, I escaped the effort, concentrating on new development projects where we alread...

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It's that time of the year so I thought this week's post would be a little lighter and less serious. In the USA, Black Friday saw a record $7.4B in online s...

No doubt you have read about American companies granting unlimited vacation time. A few years have passed and we have a better idea of how well this works. ...

There is an undeniable tech skills gap all around the world. In South Africa the banks are fighting over scarce tech skills required to help them with their ...

We have all read about the 5G's imminent arrival, however many people think that 5G is just faster than 4G. It's much more than that and the impact on our mo...

When an IT skilled person asks what tech skills should they need to prepare them for the next wave, we always say Cloud skills. Cloud Transformation not far ...

One of the questions I get asked the most is how we got FTTH to our suburb. We have had FTTH for almost 5 years, and I was very involved in canvassing the Ne...

Are we too old? It's not the same everywhere. Age Discrimination in the USA The US tech news often has articles about how age may count against one when appl...