Aiming to help people develop the skills required to gain access to meaningful and sustainable employment, and, in so doing, support the government's goal to halve poverty and unemployment by 2014, Microsoft SA says that it will invest in the lives of at least 775 000 people over the next three years. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) will be investing almost R1,5m in the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) programme being run by the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering at Wits University (JCSE - www.jcse.org.za). [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
LG Electronics has announced the appointment of several new key executives effective 1 January, 2007, including the appointment of Mr. Yong Nam as the vice-chairman and CEO of LG Electronics. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Instead of seeing the Consumer Protection Bill as a threat, direct marketers - including managers of outbound call centres and telemarketing businesses - should see it as an opportunity to actually boost sales. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Acer SA has announced the local availability of the AcerPower 2000, a desktop PC housed in a chassis that is said to be one tenth the size of a typical tower desktop. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
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Hyperion, distributed locally by Intellient, an EOH company, has been placed in the leaders' quadrant in Gartner's 2006 Magic Quadrant for corporate performance management (CPM) suites. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Mobile broadband, Internet Protocol (IP) technology and the desire to become full-service providers are increasingly driving telecom carrier strategies. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
GijimaAst says that it will take service levels in the outsourced IT environment to entirely new levels with the deployment of Intel vPro technology to its customer base. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Robert Mullins, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Cisco Systems is suing Apple to prevent it from using the name iPhone for the smart phone Apple introduced on Tuesday at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service (London Bureau)
Some Web site operators are complaining that Google is flagging their sites as containing malicious software when they believe that their sites are harmless. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Motorola and Siemens have announced that they will supply core network infrastructure, software, implementation services and maintenance to deliver a TETRA radio communications network for the Norwegian national public safety network, Nodnett. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Motorola has completed its acquisition of Symbol Technologies. The transaction has a total equity value of approximately $3,9bn on a fully-diluted basis. Symbol will be the core of Motorola's enterprise mobility business. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
PandaLabs, Panda Software's virus detection laboratory, has predicted that theft of confidential data on the Internet will become one of the most significant IT threats over the coming year. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Samsung and Google have announced global co-operation intended to provide mobile phone users worldwide with quick and easy access to Google products and services - directly from their Samsung mobile phones. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Intel has introduced three quad-core processors, including the first to carry the Intel Core 2 Quad processor brand name, and which is intended to begin the expansion of quad-core PC sales to mainstream buyers. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Motorola has announced the deployment of a nationwide 3G mobile broadband network in Kuwait for MTC Kuwait, an MTC Group Operation, which includes High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), aiming to further increase download speeds and improve the user experience of new services. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
MicroWorld Technologies, a maker of anti-virus and content security products, is offering a free security check-up and repair for virus and other malwares in computers, as part of its New Year celebrations. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
A distribution agreement established between technology solutions vendor, Samsung, and local ICT and digital lifestyle technology supplier, Sahara Computers, has led to the introduction of a range of products targeted at the local optical drive markets. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Software AG has launched a product that aims to give companies consistent and reliable information from differing data sources so that they benefit through higher operational efficiencies and reduced integration costs. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Xerox, distributed throughout 24 sub-Saharan countries by Bytes Document Solutions, has announced the invention of an erasable printing technology so that paper can be re-used. The paper self-erases in between 16 and 24 hours, Xerox says. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Annex Distribution, together with its international IT supplier partner, Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), has announced the availability of the Pocket LOOX T Series. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Apple has introduced iPhone, which aims to combine three products - a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and an Internet communications device with desktop-class e-mail, Web browsing, searching and maps - into one lightweight handheld device. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
At the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, Logitech announced the Logitech X-240 speaker system for the PC. The X-240 PC speaker system is said to feature a redesigned control centre that includes audio controls for a PC or Mac and serves as a cradle for an iPod or other MP3 player, PDA or mobile phone. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Nokia President and CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, has shared the company's vision of how simplifying and converging mobility with connected multimedia devices is making it possible to create, consume and share our experiences when and where we want. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for the business and consumer markets, has announced the launch of its next generation Web Smart Ethernet switch series. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Transcend Information has announced the release of its high speed DDR2-533 printer memory. This memory module is designed for the new generation of HP laser printers such as the HP LaserJet P2015/P3005 series, and it is claimed to be totally compatible with HP original memory (HP P/N, 128MB:CB422A, 256MB:CB423A). [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
The Epson EMP-TW620 is an HD Ready projector said to be able to satisfy home cinema lovers who demand high quality at an affordable price. It features a native 16:9 resolution for movies and displays true High Definition content, the company says. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
SMC Networks SA has announced that it will soon bring to market several solutions from the first global shipment of draft 802.11n-compliant wireless networking products. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
CyberMatrix has released version 2.00 of its Employee Scheduler, which is said to be an easy to use single or multi-user software application for creating and managing employee schedules. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Heatsoft has released Clone Cleaner Pro 1.05, a Windows utility that is designed to help to keep PCs clean, by locating duplicate files according to variety of user-specified parameters and to copy, move or remove files with the same name, same size, same content on local computer or network computers. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Transcend Information, a supplier of flash memory cards, has announced its 2GB microSD Memory Card. According to the company, the card's dimensions are 15mm x 11mm x 1mm. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
SanDisk, the second largest seller of MP3 players in the USA, has announced the Sansa Connect, a Wi-Fi enabled MP3 player that is designed to allow consumers to enjoy and recommend music from almost anywhere. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Transcend Information, a manufacturer of Flash Memory products, has announced that all of its JetFlash series of USB Flash Drives (both Hi-Speed and V Series) work with Windows Vista. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Rob Sussman, joint MD at Integr8 IT
The adoption of a managed services model in business can be a strategic and definite move towards a more streamlined and cost-effective operation. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
51% of software on auction sites is counterfeit, study reveals
51% of the software sold by a well-known auction site was found to be either counterfeit or had software components that were counterfeit. This was revealed by a study conducted by the IDC. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
While buggy software and applications that miss the mark in terms of business expectations seems to be the norm in commerce today, there are some industries in which poor quality software is unacceptable because of the severe impact of downtime on their business. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Driving IT skills transformation through the grass roots upliftment of schools
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ICT companies are some of the most vocal when it comes to the skills shortage in the market, and the accompanying dearth of graduates with the high-level credentials and qualifications required to add value to an ICT organisation and its customers. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Operating in a security-conscious market
Clint Carrick, CEO, Carrick Holdings
The IT security market continues to be influenced by issues like social engineering, identity theft and compliance with legislation. Corporate SA should associate IT security with more than just efforts to protect the business against external threats. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
Channel Data has announced Juniper's DX 3280 and DX 3680 products, which are additions to the DX line of data centre acceleration platforms. They aim to help customers to address key IT initiatives as well as their changing data centre requirements. [Issue:Two hundred and seventeen (8/1/07 -12/1/07)]
