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ICASA on drive to educate South African consumers
South Africa’s Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has pledged its commitment to make consumers aware of their right to communication. ICASA, which regulates the country’s telecommunications sector, is currently holding consumer rights roadshows to that effect.
Nokia starts voluntary redundancies
Nokia is accelerating its cost-reduction programme and starting a voluntary redundancy offer. The mobile phone maker is also encouraging staff to make wider use of short-term unpaid leaves and sabbaticals and use up their holiday allowances rather than taking cash…
Softworx introduces Infor’s MyDay – a solution with personality
Infor’s new Web 2.0 user interface for Infor applications, MyDay, is here. Deon Eachells, Solutions Manager, Softworx (an EOH company), says the beauty of this solution is that it’s based on Infor Open SOA and can therefore pull information from…
DCC wins APC top distributor for Africa award
Drive Control Corporation (DCC), a distributor of integrated critical power and cooling solutions was recently awarded APC’s Distributor of Year for South Africa and Africa 2008. The accolade acknowledges DCC’s contribution to APC’s business success throughout the African continent and…
ICT Leaders Meet at Sun City Resort for Second Day of IDC CIO Summit
More than 90 of the continent’s most influential IT decision makers today gathered at South Africa’s world-renowned Sun City Resort for the second and final day of IDC’s groundbreaking Africa CIO Summit 2009. The world’s premier IT and communications market…
Google’s Gmail is down!
Gmail is suffering from a widespread outage this morning, with visitors to the webmail service being presented with blank screens. In a statement – issued over the telephone – Google admits it’s got a problem. “A number of users are…
Blu-ray – the journey ahead
With the decline of DVD sales, the question on everyone’s lips is: will Blu-ray go the same way? Blu-ray is after all the proverbial new kid on the block with a lot to prove. So how can Blu-ray weather the…
South Africa’s ICT readiness for 2010 under scrutiny
THE preparedness of South Africa’s Information and Communications Technology for the hosting of two of the world’s biggest football tournaments in the next two years will be under the spotlight on Tuesday. The Minister of Communications Dr. Ivy Matsepe-Casaburi, will…
Take IT to the clouds above
Amid the shroud of financial uncertainty gripping global markets and the climate of pressure squeezing operators in almost every sector, there is a buzzword that is emerging as the next ICT trend to watch – one that offers opportunity to…
Online 2010 World Cup tickets sell like hot buns
ONLINE ticket sales for the 2010 FIFA World Cup scheduled for South Africa has got off to a flying start. Only five hours after the tickets went on sale online on Friday at the official FIFA website, there were 60…
Research In Motion wins UMA Innovation Award for BlackBerry Curve 8320
Research In Motion (RIM) was yesterday awarded the UMA Innovation Award for Best Smartphone in the Best Mobile Handset category. The BlackBerry® Curve 8320 was identified as the winner at the Second Annual UMA Innovation Awards, held at Mobile World…
Nigerian State turns to SAP ERP solution
Delta State, one of the 36 states that make up the federal Republic of Nigeria, is using elements of the enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution from software giant, SAP, to move towards e-government and to achieve it growth goals.
50% of companies with online communities will fail to manage them well- Gartner
Social computing is becoming a significant customer relationship management (CRM) market trend and represents a disruptive force in this market, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that, by 2010, more than 60 percent of Fortune 1000 companies will have some…
Morroco’s WANA partners Cambridge Broadband Networks’s
WANA, Morocco’s third largest telecommunications company, has selected Cambridge Broadband Networks’s VectaStar Next Generation backhaul solution to increase the performance of its backhaul network and support the introduction of mobile broadband services.
AccessKenya Group launches lifestyle portal
AccessKenya Group, Kenya’s first publicly listed ICT company and leading Corporate Internet Service Provider, has launched a lifestyle portal in Kenya, dedicated to providing Kenyan information on the Internet, so that Kenyans can do more, see more and be more…
South African ICT workers in unity talks
SOUTH Africa’s Communications Workers Union (CWU) said it had moved into another gear to foster unity talks with unions operating within the ICT sector. The 27 000-member organization, which is currently organized and recognized in companies such as Telkom SA,…
