South African ICT solutions provider to corporate companies, Velocity³ announced a branch opening in Cape Town that will carry the same multi brand solutions as currently offered in Johannesburg.

With continued airport expansion and high levels of customer traffic expected at South Africa’s airports during 2010 and beyond, Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has focused on providing critical IT network services 24/7 for all its SA airports to ensure services run efficiently.

Marco Lippuner has been appointed Vice President and Managing Director of Siemens IT Solutions and Services South Africa and the Cluster Africa with effect from 1 September 2009.

Kaspersky Lab, a leading international developer of secure content management systems, announced the launch of Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, its latest security applications that have been enhanced in technology and performance to protect users from today’s evolving cybercrime and IT threats, in South Africa and several African countries.

Haydn Pinnell, MD, Gallium (an EOH company), says IT Service Management (ITSM) is a journey; a quest to deliver improved service. Unplanned journey’s can be fraught with the unexpected,

EGYPT is set to increase the volume of its information tecnology exports to US$1.1 billion per year by 2010, Tarek Kamel, Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology said
at a special lunch hosted by the United States and Egypt business leaders.

Many companies tend to panic in an economic downturn, pushing cost cutting straight to the top of the agenda. A box which is very likely to receive a tick when the bosses sit down to trim the fat is the IT department.

According to senior officials at South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs, Information Technology (IT) related problems in have caused delays in the timely processing and production of passport documents.

Hewlett Packard (HP) has introduced a business-to-business recycling and take-back programme in an effort to promote environmentally friendly practices in the IT industry.

NIGERIA’S award winning administrator in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Chris Uwaje, has been named the new regional director for D-Link International in charge of West Africa.

A NUMBER of companies in information and communication technology the world-over are preparing to travel to the United States next week to witness the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Barack Obama as the first black leader of that country.