Date archive forDecember, 2010
By Charlie Fripp On Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
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Can SA become a global BPO destination of choice?

Kgabo Badimo, MD of Spescom DataVoiceKenya’s stated goal is to become an ICT and Business Process Outsourcing hub of choice by 2030. Should South Africa consider it a threat to its own ambitions in this regard? More...

By Charlie Fripp On Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
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Brightstar expands BlackBerry partnership

Deon Liebenberg, Regional Director for Sub Sahara Africa at RIMBRIGHTSTART Corp, a global services company providing solutions to manufacturers, operators,  More...

By Charlie Fripp On Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
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Forbes Ranks Interactive Intelligence Among America’s 100 Best Small Companies

Interactive Intelligence (Nasdaq: ININ), a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, has been named by Forbes Magazine among America’s 100 Best Small Companies. Interactive Intelligence More...

By Charlie Fripp On Monday, December 13th, 2010
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Cloud computing and today’s workforce

Keith Bothma, HP South Africa’s Technology Solutions Sales ManagerThe expected expansion of the mobile workforce will provide a growing market for communications service providers (CSPs) for the next three to More...

By Charlie Fripp On Monday, December 13th, 2010
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Satellite operator to expand African footprint

SES President and CEO, Romain BauschGlobal satellite operator SES S.A. announced today that it plans to expand its presence in Africa by providing much needed additional capacity to the continent, as well as adding More...

By Charlie Fripp On Monday, December 13th, 2010
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Record attendance at 5th Innovation Dinner in Johannesburg

The 5th Innovation Dinner organized by premier ICT news provider ITNewsAfrica.com kicked off on the 8th of December 2010 under the theme “Technology Forecast 2011”, with a record attendance of 75 C-level executives, More...

By Charlie Fripp On Friday, December 10th, 2010
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BlackBerry now accepting apps for Playbook

BlackBerry PlaybookResearch in motion on Wednesday opened the BlackBerry App World vendor portal to begin accepting BlackBerry PlayBook apps from developers. “Interest and momentum behind the BlackBerry PlayBook More...

By Charlie Fripp On Friday, December 10th, 2010
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FNB Connect banks on voice and data

Farren Roper, Operations Manager at FNB ConnectFarren Roper, Operations Manager at FNB Connect, a division within First National Bank that provides converged voice and data solutions to customers, talks to ITNewsAfrica.com More...

By Charlie Fripp On Friday, December 10th, 2010
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HP first to ship with new IEEE standard

HP has announced it is the first to ship products based on a new energy-efficient Ethernet standard it helped develop that enables clients to reduce the energy consumption and operational costs of their IT equipment. More...

By Charlie Fripp On Friday, December 10th, 2010
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Improving internal efficiency in banking

Allan Dickson, Consultant at Compass Management ConsultingAcross the globe banking was left reeling as a result of the sub-prime meltdown and the following financial crisis that gripped the world, and the recovery More...