Siemens and AST win $14m Botswana telecommunications contract
Shayne Robinson
Following hot on the heels of a recent telecommunications deal in Lesotho, Siemens Telecommunications has won yet another multi-mullion Rand contract, this time in Botswana.
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Deregulation does not mean changes in VoIP regulations
Sipho Memela
Even with the deregulation of SA's telecommunications industry complete, regulations still prevent the carriage of any traffic - voice or data - outside Telkom's network, when that traffic originates in Telkom's network.
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BSA to strengthen fight against piracy
Sipho Memela
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) this week announced that it will be stepping up its efforts to identify local companies which are using unlicensed software.
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Sipho Memela
Image how cool it would be to get an SMS from the police every morning informing you of locations in your neighbourhood of which you should be wary.
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CSSI signs R84m distribution deal with CipherWave
Nicolas Callegari, Computing SA
Midrand-based Computer Storage Services Incorporated (CSSI) Africa has signed an R84m distribution and manufacturing agreement with CipherWave Technologies in the USA.
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Multi-platform management with BindView
Sipho Memela
BindView has released its new Password Self Service solution, which enables individual users to reset their own passwords and unlock their accounts without the need for administrator intervention.
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First things first
Shayne Robinson
Everyone has woken up at least once with that morning after feeling and thought to themselves "I must look like hell". MSN, Microsoft's consumer Web site, is giving you the opportunity to take these and other early morning situations and put them on the World Wide Web.
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PM Tech spreads its reach to Cape Town
Sipho Memela
PM Tech Holdings, the IT solutions company, has expanded its local influence by opening a branch in Cape Town.
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Meta Group rolls out J2EE market evaluation
Sipho Memela
Meta Group has published the latest METAspectrum market evaluation for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server market.
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Spescom to equip Cell C's new call centre
Sipho Memela
Due to its rapid growth in subscribers, Cell C has selected Spescom DatatFusion as the technology provider for its new main call centre, which will be situated in the Midrand area.
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iTouch helps Michelin to tread with confidence
Shayne Robinson
The mobile sales force is something that we have all been hearing about for a long time. Local company iTouch has gone past this talk and burst into the international arena with a mobile business solution designed to make Michelin Tyres global operations mobile.
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HP brings Itanium 2 to Africa
Sipho Memela
Following HP's announcement that it will soon ship Itanium 2-based servers and workstations to the continent, small, medium and large organisations across Africa will be able to purchase computers based on the next generation of processor chips.
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IT gaming cyber carnival this week
Shayne Robinson
Call out the Clans, the Propeller heads and Game Freaks, because there are only a few days left before this year's biggest gaming event.
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Sagent's new software package for EII
Sipho Memela
Sagent, a provider of enterprise business intelligence solutions, has announced the availability of its Enterprise Information Integration (EII) package.
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Sagent's new software package for EII
Sipho Memela
Sagent, a provider of enterprise business intelligence solutions, has announced the availability of its Enterprise Information Integration (EII) package.
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Resolve- a new CRM module for Flowerite.
Sipho Memela
Flowerite, a flower distributor, has been approached by Brilliant Business Systems to become involved in piloting its Resolve project. This product allows Brilliant customers to improve their customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities.
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CA's Unicenter ServicePlus Service Desk awarded ITIL certification
ict World reporter
Computer Associates (CA)'s Unicenter ServicePlus Service Desk solution has been certified compatible with the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) process framework, an emerging worldwide standard for IT service and support.
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China hijacks Google's domain name
Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Try to access Google's search engine from inside China and there is a good chance that instead you will be sent to Tianwang Search, a search engine operated by China's prestigious Peking University.
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Microstrategy becomes Marcus' business intelligence platform
Sipho Memela
MicroStrategy has beaten both Cognos and Business Objects to become The Marcus Corporation's business intelligence platform.
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Microsoft rental plan confused eighty percent of users
Andrea Malcolm, Computerworld New Zealand Online
Microsoft has scrapped plans for subscription-based licensing of consumer products following the end of a 12-month trial in several countries including New Zealand.
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McAfee Security named as anti-virus market leader for fifth consecutive year
ict World Reporter
An evolving market requires an evolving solution and IT security is no exception. As threats evolve and mutate, IT security companies need to perpetually redefine their products to ensure that they are fit to fight the latest cyber foes. In a recently issued report, IDC, a provider of market data, named McAfee Security, a division of Network Associates, as the market leader in corporate anti-virus software solutions.
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Intel doubles graphics bus bandwidth with AGP 8x technology
ict World Reporter
Designed to satisfy the performance and scalability needs of today's workstation class graphics applications, Intel has released the final AGP 3.0 specification. (AGP stands for Accelerated Graphics Port). The corresponding AGP 3.0 Design Guide (Rev. 2.0) will also be available this month.
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Intel and VeriSign to enable enhanced security for Banias processor-based notebook computers
ict World reporter
Intel and VeriSign have announced they will work together to improve wireless security for corporate notebooks based on Intel's upcoming Banias processor.
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Cisco announces family of multi-layer intelligent storage switches
ict World reporter
Cisco has announced a comprehensive family of multi-layer intelligent storage switches, which deliver a number of storage networking innovations to customers and will drive storage area network (SAN) consolidation, increase data availability.
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Comverse prepaid solution approved
ict World reporter
Comverse, the supplier of software solutions to cellular service providers, has announced that its Intelligent Network (IN)-based Prepaid Solution has secured interoperability approval with Nortel Networks' IS-41P, a Nortel Networks proprietary mobile switch IN signalling protocol for CDMA/TDMA carriers.
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New Nokia cell phones add imaging, Java
Tom Krazit, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
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Omnibook xe4500 - complete mobility in the New HP tradition
ict World Reporter
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Features
The Internet: Ground zero for 9/11 analysis
Tom Spring, PC World.com (US)
Sometimes even around-the-clock cable news is not enough. When war broke out, millions went on-line to the globe's biggest water cooler for chatter and debate that has grown larger and louder over the past year.
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Michael Law, sales manager at Sun Microsystems SA
In the last decade, the innovations that have come out of Sun Microsystems' Laboratories are to network computing what James Bond's gadgets are to fighting Dr. No or the KGB.
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A new model for ISP services
Mike Brierley, CEO of MTN Network Solutions
The local Internet market has received a major boost in the past two years from the upsurge in Virtual Internet Service Providers: companies that set themselves up as consumer ISPs by piggybacking on the dial-up infrastructure of large ISPs and handling only business issues like branding, marketing and billing.
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