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ContinuitySA finalises R35m buyout from Dialogue
The Dialogue Group has sold it’s 51% share in Continuity SA, with effect from 01 February 2011. CoroCapital now holds 49% of ContinuitySA, while the Continuity Investment Trust, represented by the management and staff of ContinuitySA, increased its holding to…
7 questions for developing a social media policy
As social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, disrupts the the long-standing rules of business in many ways, some companies are starting to embrace these often maligned communication tools. But crafting a social media policy is premature unless the designers…
NetEx signs Workgroup to extend reach of HyperIP
NetEx and Workgroup IT have announced a partnership which will allow Workgroup to distribute NetEx’s HyperIP WAN optimisation software throughout South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. The partnership is intended to satisfy increased demand for improved data replication and accelerated file…
Hybrid delivery for clouds is the norm
Jan Zadak, Senior VP of Enterprise Business and MD of HP EMEA talked to ITNewsAfrica.com about cloud computing trends and the changes happening in African enterprises. ITNewsAfrica.com: How is cloud computing evolving in 2011 in Africa, in your opinion? Jan…
MTN joins Mobile Entertainment Forum
The MTN Group is proud to announce that it has joined the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) which will support the company’s efforts to drive mobile media innovation across its 21 operations in Africa and the Middle East. This means that…
Luke Mckend: Seeing the potential in Africa
Returning to South Africa after 12 years in the UK has been a genuinely positive experience for Luke Mckend, newly appointed Google SA Country Manager. Having officially taken up his position at the beginning of January, Mckend is excited about…
IBM Servers to transform Senegal’s import/export processes
IBM and CFAO Technologies,an IBM Business Partner in West Africa, will help modernize Senegal’s import and export processes by installing two state-of the art servers at the Customs Directorate of Senegal’s Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Finance has chosen to install the…
Industry leaders hail Innovation Dinner series
AFRICA’S foremost ICT publication ITNewsAfrica.com, today announced the theme for the next Innovation Dinner as “Driving Innovation with Enterprise Mobility”. The Innovation Dinner Series, an invitation only event that takes place every two months, provides a platform for networking amongst…
T-Systems introduces Cloud Computing in South Africa
The second quarter of 2011 will see T-Systems enter the Cloud Computing market in South Africa with its dynamic service solutions. T-Systems will offer scalability, agility and usage based computing. The introduction of cloud computing in South Africa is part of T-Systems’ strategy to…
Nigeria’s telcos join cancer fight
With the high rate of cancer-related deaths in Nigeria, the country’s telecom regulator is joining the fight for cancer prevention. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) announced it is teaming up with the non-governmental organization National Cancer Prevention Program (NCPP) and…
Telkom/Cybernest official sponsors of IT Leaders Africa Summit
Kinetic Events, the producers and hosts of the IT Leaders Africa Summit, has confirmed Telkom/Cybernest as the lead sponsor of the event. The IT Leaders Africa Summit brings together the forerunners in the IT industry in Africa. Local and international…
Innovation Dinner confirms MTN and HP
Africa’s leading ICT business dinner series has secured Africa’s leading telecoms company, MTN Group, and Hewlett Packard (HP), as sponsors for the February 23, 2011 edition of the Innovation Dinner to be hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa. Launched in 1994,…
Egypt’s IT sector remains uncertain
As demonstrations continue in Egypt, what was once a burgeoning telecommunications industry seems to be falling flat. Already, large mutlti-nationals such as Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have left the country for fear their networks won’t be able to recover properly. It…
Google still searching for executive Wael Ghonim in Egypt
Google`s Executive Manager of Marketing for the MENA region, Wael Ghonim, who is also a prominent blogger, has not been heard from since last Thursday night, as his friends and family told media and human rights organizations, saying that Ghonim…
Rupert Murdoch launches iPad newspaper
As print publishers continue to search for new ways to attract readers at a time when many are turning away from newspapers and magazines- industry players watch with keen self interest to see if Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad only daily…
Interactive Intelligence offers integration with IBM Lotus Sametime
Solution designed to increase employee productivity and improve customer service Interactive Intelligence is offering integration of its all-in-one IP communications software suite, Customer Interaction Centre™ (CIC), with IBM Lotus Sametime. The solution integrates CIC’s desktop client, presence, and company-wide directory…
