Issue: One Hundred and Seventy Five (27/02-03/03)

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Local News
Cape Town offers free Internet access 

Cape Town is offering free Internet access at every public library.
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Notebook sales drive SA PC market in 2005 - BMI-T 

ICT market analyst, BMI-TechKnowledge has announced the publication of its latest report, SA PC Quarterly Tracker Q4 2005.
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Toshiba expands presence in SA 
Trisha Harinath
In order to meet the growing demand for notebook PCs, the Computer Systems Division of Toshiba Europe GmbH opened an office in Sandton last week.
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Sentech to provide split feeds for elections 

Sentech will be providing split feeds for SABC 2 to enable regional updates of the local government elections being held across the country tomorrow.
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Touchline Media upgrades call centre 

Touchline Media, a subsidiary of the Media 24 group, has invested in call centre technology from Spescom DataFusion - the contact centre operation of the JSE - and Nasdaq-listed Spescom group.
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Softline Pastel announces out-of-the-box legal solution 

SMEs and home users can now produce their own valid legal documents without incurring the cost of an attorney.
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UCOMS on the move 

Universal Communication Services (UCOMS) has acquired Memory Data Technologies (MDT) as part of its expansion program in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Political leaders' blog election trial on M&G online 

Political leaders contesting the SA local elections have come together on the same platform to blog about their day-to-day activities, giving readers an insider look at the world of politics.
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10Net ICT Solutions gets new GM  

10Net ICT Solutions, local distributor of Marshal, NetIQ and other system and security solutions, has appointed Riaan Otto as GM.
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SA AMSAT hosts conference in Durban 

The Southern Africa Amateur Radio Satellite Association (SA AMSAT) will be holding its annual conference at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on March 25.
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Osilio and Fiorano Software SOA implementations 

Fiorano Software, a provider of business process integration and messaging technology solutions, has announced a relationship with Business Automation and Integration specialist Osilio.
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SAS 9.1 achieves 'Powered by SAP NetWeaver' status 

SAS, an SAP software partner and dealer in business intelligence (BI), has announced that it has achieved 'Powered by SAP NetWeaver' integration status for its 9.1 solution.
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Sybase embarks on second learnership programme 

Sybase SA, a provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, in association with Bytes Technology Group and the Isett Seta, has embarked on its second learnership programme, aimed at developing the skills of previously disadvantaged individuals in the ICT sector, in the area of software development, through a demand-driven initiative while assisting with job placement.
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Truworths partners with Fair Isaac 

Fair Isaac, a provider of analytics and decision management technology, today announced that Truworths, a local fashion retailer, has implemented Fair Isaacs Strategy Science for Credit Line Management to help boost the profitability of its credit card portfolio.
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Global News
Intel invests $300m in Vietnam  

Intel has announced that it will invest $300m to build a semiconductor assembly and test facility in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Symantec to ship security appliance for SMEs 
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Symantec will today begin shipping a new line of its Gateway Security appliances designed for SMEs.
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Datacraft deploys and manages India's largest network 

State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest bank, today announced the networking of 10 000 branches of the State Bank Group across the country.
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Google moving search records out of China 
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
In an effort to protect users of its Google.cn Web site, Google is moving search records out of China and into the US, a company executive said this week.
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TippingPoint drives network security for Toyota Europe 

Since the installation of its first Intrusion Prevention System, Toyota Motor Europe says that it is reaping the benefits of securing its LAN/WAN with the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS).
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European suppliers join forces in EMEA handheld market 

Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has signed a co-operation agreement with Dangaard Telecom at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
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Oracle readies standalone enterprise search 
Martyn Williams and China Martens, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Oracle entered the stand-alone enterprise search market today with a product that it hopes will do for corporate data what Google has done for public data on the Web.
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Gateway to pay HP $47m in patent settlement  
Shelley Solheim, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
Gateway will pay Hewlett-Packard $47m to end a bitter patent dispute between the two PC makers, the companies say.
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AMD and Lenovo expand relationship 

AMD today announced that its AMD64 technology is now available in a line of professional desktop PCs from Lenovo, marking the first time that this pairing will be available worldwide.
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Accenture to provide Microsoft with services 

Accenture will provide Microsoft with credit and collection services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) under a five-year business process outsourcing contract which the two companies signed recently.
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Verifying sales tax revenues with Siemens wireless modules 

Governments can now use wireless modules from Siemens Communications to verify their sales tax revenues, the company says.
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Technical & Product News
Lenovo-branded products debut worldwide 

Lenovo has unveiled the first-ever Lenovo-branded PCs to be offered worldwide: the Lenovo 3000 product family.
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FSC rolls out FibreCAT storage systems 

Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) will present storage for online operation at this year's CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany.
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Test solution to verify EPON triple-play service performance 

Agilent Technologies has announced that its N2X multiservices test solution has been chosen by Fiberxon to validate Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) system performance while delivering real-world triple-play services.
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Concilium Technologies expands MTN's acceSS7 OSS 

Concilium Technologies is expanding the Agilent Technologies' acceSS7 operational support system (OSS) at MTN to cover more of its 2,5G network and parts of its 3G network in a multi-million dollar deal.
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"Content capture can ensure that documentation does not go AWOL on your business" 

The digital capture and management of your documentation throughout your enterprise can now be automated cost-effectively and delivered electronically with Cardiff Teleform from AmVia.
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"Copy-intensive environments to benefit from entry-level copy management system" 

Bidvest Group company, Minolta SA, has introduced an entry-level copying and printing management solution, the Informeta Copying Management System, aimed at photocopy-intensive environments, such as schools, universities, libraries and copy shops.
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Logitech wirelessly links iPod to home entertainment system 

Logitech has introduced the Logitech Wireless Music System for iPod, which is designed to allow users, in a matter of minutes, to wirelessly connect their iPod or MP3 player to a stereo or speaker system, share their digital music out loud, and control the music using their player as a remote control.
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Keyboard LCD an addition to Logitech MX 5000 Laser 

Logitech has announced the Logitech Cordless Desktop MXT 5000 Laser, featuring a built-in LCD on the keyboard, which is intended to help users to manage the constant flow of information that has become an inherent part of working with computers.
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Avaya extends enterprise mobility to Nokia Series 80 

Avaya and Nokia have announced that Avaya's flagship IP telephony software, Avaya Communication Manager, now supports Nokia Series 80 smart phones, such as the Nokia 9300 and the Nokia 9300i enterprise smart phones and the Nokia 9500 Communicator.
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Minolta SA introduces Web-based job ticketing software 

Bidvest Group company, Minolta SA, has introduced a Web-based printing and copying job submission system, RAP System, which is targeted at high-volume print environments, such as in-house print rooms, print for pay copy shops, commercial printers and data centres.
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Minolta SA launches all-in-one colour laser 

Minolta SA has introduced the Konica Minolta magicolor 2480MF multifunctional colour laser that is said to combine five essential business functions - print, copy, scan, camera direct photo print and PC Fax - into one convenient machine that prints and copies up to 20 pages per minute (ppm) in monochrome and five ppm in colour.
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Corel introduces Corel Painter IX.5 update 

Corel has unveiled the Corel Painter IX.5 update, which is designed to give professional photographers and artists tools that make it easier to transform photographs into paintings.
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Intel-powered Macs supported by Sophos 

Sophos has announced the latest version of its Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac OS X.
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EMC expands into SME market with Insignia products 

Official local distributor, Channel Data, has introduced the EMC Insignia line of hardware and software products that enable SMEs to store, manage, protect, and share vital business information.
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Channel News
Venture offers WiMAX to Africa - becomes WaveIP reseller 

Venture Communications has been appointed a reseller for WaveIP's range of WiMAX solutions, and will utilise these products as part of its integrated service offering to SMEs and corporates throughout Africa.
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Fujitsu, Infortrend partner on SAS technology  

Iata storage distributor, New IT, has announced that Fujitsu Computer Products of America, and Infortrend, a Raid storage expert, intend to advance Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage technology with the release of Infortrend's S12F-R1420 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel (4GFC)-to-SAS subsystem.
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Sun Microsystems shines with Integr8 IT partnership 

National network integration and infrastructure management specialist, Integr8 IT, has become a volume product reseller for Sun Microsystems.
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ProScan to distribute Datalogic handheld barcode readers 

ProScan Systems, a distributor of supply chain, automated data collection and mobile computing solutions, was recently appointed as a local distributor for the Datalogic handheld range of barcode readers.
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Computing SA
This week in Computing SA 

Read in Computing SA this week: Phishing, ID theft cause for huge concern, Nedbank gets contact centre solution, New contact centre solutions from Alcatel, Faritec turns profit corner, Platinum Africa maintains constant availability, ProCurve climbs on the 'intelligent networks train', Has BPM delivered on its promises?, SOA at the next level, DSTV PVR - where have you been all my life?, IBM exec: Too much data creates problems, IT changed the world - now the world is changing IT, It is the way of the future.
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Opinions
Business outsourcing - support from government at last!  

Business outsourcing, which has, for a long time, offered a great deal of promise as a serious job creator in this country, has, for all intents and purposes, not being living up to its potential.
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Dedicated power solution applied to Cape Town building 

The increasing unreliability of mains power supply from Eskom, due to lack of generation capacity, problems at the Koeberg nuclear power station, and rapidly increasing demand, is leading to the approach by many businesses to ensure that their mission-critical computer processing and data centres are not affected by long black-outs.
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RIM or lose, IT departments will be the long term winners... 

...legal dispute will force local companies to take stock of mobile e-mail strategies.
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