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Unlike the Fifa World Cup where even a favourite team can be eliminated in the pool stages, the outcome of rugby’s premier tournament is far more predictable. The winner must be one of New Zealand, Australia or South Africa, with England and France in with an outside chance. Odds on the sixth favourite team, Ireland, […]

Don’t let the Springbok spin-machine or scribes who don’t have the option to piss in the pot tell you otherwise: the Springboks didn’t deserve to beat Wales as the Welsh outplayed South Africa. They dominated every facet of the game, except on the scoreboard, and were it not for a missed drop goal and penalty, […]

So it is Monday, the day after a heart-wrenching day of Springbok rugby and where all I read and hear is how great Wales were and yes they were pretty good. But there is no sentiment in RWC, there is a scoreboard and that is the only score that matters. If the Boks had lost, […]

Many of the key trends emerging in the local contact centre space are mirroring those taking shape globally. In the important areas we’re right there on the communications frontier, which means our brands are facing the same challenges as those in the US, Asia and Europe. One of the most significant of these is dealing […]

The past few years have seen many open source companies being bought by proprietary ones. Back in 2003 Novell bought German Linux maker SuSE. A few years ago Sun Microsystems bought database maker MySQL in a landmark $1 billion deal, and then last year Sun Microsystems was itself snapped up by Oracle. One of the more […]

By Lawrence Mashimbye The so-called “strike season” in South Africa is no longer funny. Day in and day out we hear one union after the other calling workers to riot. I know the complaints around conditions of employment and salary increases are pertinent and imperative, particularly in a country that survived apartheid and its bad […]

I awoke this morning to find out that Darren Scott has reportedly resigned from both SuperSport and Jacaranda 94.2 after it was reported that he referred to a colleague as a k*****. I don’t know Scott personally at all but have come to respect him as I’m sure many have over the years as a […]

The Rugby World Cup commences tomorrow September 9 with the All Blacks vs Tonga match. The flood gates will open for all the 20 team games with 600 players in four pools of five teams each playing to win the final on October 23 at Eden Park. This means that of the 600 RWC players […]

While a cat has nine lives, it seems that SMS has an infinite number of lives. So while the rise in mobile instant messaging (MIM) has been heralded as its end, a closer look shows that this rather increases SMS’s value in the corporate space. It was BlackBerry and its ostensibly free messaging service between […]