Staff reporter
This year's African achievers awards, the sixth award since 1999, took the theme of "African Excellence", and saw a greater number of African countries represented than any previous year. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Visa International announced today that its member banks in SA have issued more than ten million Visa cards as the country's banking sector steps up initiatives to bring the 13 million unbanked individuals into the formal financial services system. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Following Vodacom's announcement last week of its partnership agreement with the worlds largest mobile community, Vodafone, the company has said that it will be first to market in SA with the "BlackBerry" device. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Intel, in conjunction with Airports Company of SA (Acsa), as well as a number of IT vendors, including Mecer and Fujitsu Siemens, demonstrated the benefits of wireless network and Internet access at Cape Town International Airport from the 25th to the 29th October. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
SAS recently launched SAS Financial Intelligence, an advanced portfolio of software solutions which aims to help organisations achieve more predictive, accurate and timely results from their finance functions. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Harnessing ICTs for the benefit of Africa's tertiary education sector is the topic of the Unesco-sponsored Expert Group Meeting on Developing the e-Campus Model for Africa to be held this week. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
One of the biggest challenges facing corporations of all sizes remains the effective management of the projects, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within budget and according to scope. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
The ICT charter process has begun to bear fruit even before the final version is completed, with a number of companies setting up innovative projects to support young entrepreneurs in the sector. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Black-owned and managed enterprise solutions integration company, Cornastone, will be bringing a number of value-added services to The Innovation Hub (TIH), including an ICT platform designed to support the intelligent community being developed at the precinct. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Joris Evers
In a bid to further differentiate itself from open source rivals, Microsoft says that it will expand its indemnification programme to cover the vast majority of its customers. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Ken Mingis, Computerworld (US online)
Oracle said late Wednesday that PeopleSoft's board of directors will reject its latest $24-per-share "best and final offer" in its ongoing takeover bid for the company, leaving the fate of its plans in the hands of PeopleSoft's shareholders. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
John Blau, IDG News Service (Düsseldorf Bureau)
Nokia took legal action last week against two European manufacturers for allegedly infringing on its technology patents and registered designs. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Scarlet Pruitt and Tom Krazit, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Intel's board of directors have elected current president and COO, Paul Otellini, as the company's next CEO, succeeding Craig Barrett, who was named new chairman of the board. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Paul Kallender and Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Japan's Toshiba has filed patent infringement lawsuits in Japanese and US courts against South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Grant Gross, IDG News Service (Washington Bureau)
Microsoft on Monday announced anti-trust settlements with Novell and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), ending years of legal wrangling. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Stacy Cowley, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Red Hat is opening its first office in China this week, as part of its effort to tap demand for low-cost software in developing markets. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service (London Bureau)
IBM and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science introduced a new supercomputer on Friday that they hope will be the most powerful in Europe, and among the 10 most powerful in the world. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
The Mozilla Foundation has released Version 1.0 of its Firefox browser, an open source product that has generated expectations that it will offer real competition to Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Secure Data, a member of the ERP.com Group, and the African distributor for TippingPoint Technologies, recently announced the availability and open source release of Tomahawk, the first test tool designed specifically to evaluate the unique capabilities of network-based intrusion prevention systems (IPS), the company says. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Secure Data, a member of the ERP.com Group, and the African distributor for TippingPoint Technologies, recently announced the availability and open source release of Tomahawk, the first test tool designed specifically to evaluate the unique capabilities of network-based intrusion prevention systems (IPS), the company says. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Computer Associates Africa has introduced the latest version of its eTrust Security Command Center offering, r8 - a solution designed to manage and respond to security events across the enterprise, which, in turn, aims to reduce business risk, increase security visibility and awareness, and assist with regulatory compliance. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Paul Krill, InfoWorld (US online)
IBM on Wednesday announced the pre-release of several tools for SMEs designed to speed development of solutions built on IBM middleware. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Aiming to meet the needs of businesses and employees in the new SA, all of whom come from diverse backgrounds and cultures, and who speak a multitude of languages, Softline Pastel Payroll has announced the availability of the latest version of Pastel Payroll. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Sun Microsystems and Siebel Systems have announced an expanded relationship designed to lower the cost of ownership for Sun and Siebel Systems users. Under the terms of their broadened alliance, Siebel Systems says that it will port Siebel CRM, Enterprise Edition to Suns Solaris Operating System for x86 platforms. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Latin America Bureau)
Having launched the much-awaited version 1.0 of the Firefox browser yesterday, the Mozilla Foundation is busy planning future enhancements to the open source product, including the possibility of integrating it with a variety of desktop search tools. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Computer Associates Africa has announced the immediate availability of eTrust PestPatrol Anti-Spyware r5, designed to safeguard consumers, SME and large enterprise PCs against unauthorised access, information theft and diminished system performance. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Within weeks of the announcement of the appropriate criteria, enterprise application development specialist, nVisionIT, has been recognised for its Microsoft's Business Solutions Competency. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
I downloaded Mozillas Firefox browser today, to give it a try, in the hope of finding a suitable substitute for the very buggy IE that I have been using for far too long. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
The mobile data services market is set to explode, as operators and services providers gain experience in packaging attractive applications, and start to market them aggressively to end-users. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
So, after Mondays Soapbox, some of the kind folk on the SAOpen mailing list pointed out that Gmail does work on Firefox, and that a number of extensions are available which help to sort out hassles like the one which prevented my viewing that local news service Web site correctly. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
Keith Havilland and Basilio Rueda partners in Accenture
Manufacturing moved first from the craft shop to the factory floor, where products were created to standardised specifications, in greater number and at lower cost. [Issue:One Hundred and fourteen (08/11/04 - 13/11/04)]
