RedLinX, an ICT solutions provider, will be hosting and exhibiting "High-Performance Servers for Africa", which will be launched in Johannesburg and Cape Town respectively. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
iBurst says that it will celebrate its first birthday this month with presents to customers, in the form of reduced prices on desktop and laptop modems and antennas, the scrapping of connection fees on monthly and 24-month contracts and free next-day delivery to customers in major centres. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Local VMware distributor, Workgroup, has announced VMware's Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge contest, with prizes totalling $200 000 to foster continued innovation in developing virtual appliances. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
The demand for robust technology, connectivity and reliable solutions in Africa is as strong as it has ever been, says Robert Sussman, joint-MD at Integr8 IT, a local provider of network integration and infrastructure management services. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Seven Gauteng-based high-tech start-up companies last night confirmed the value of incubation after having successfully established their businesses through the incubation programme at the Maxum Business Incubator at The Innovation Hub. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Mid-market ERP solutions provider Lorge has installed and implemented an integrated SAP Business One software solution for Lightworks, the specialist branding, graphics design and display material house, in a contract worth R250 000. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) says that it is committed to making its resources available to build leadership capacity, both in further education and training, and, in the broader sphere, to implement the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
The SA governments Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) has selected Clickatell to supply SMS messages for its i-Tender/ Register of Projects (RoP) system. Communication with more than 10 000 registered contractors on the CIDB database needs to be quick and inexpensive. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
3fifteen, the Microsoft applications solutions division in the Dimension Data SA Group, has developed a streamlined finance application process for the vehicle finance division of Mettle, the niche financing house owned by empowerment powerhouse, HCI. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this year will get some open source competition, as Linux proponents are planning to hold the first-ever FreedomHEC conference for Linux hardware engineers immediately following WinHEC in Seattle. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau)
Lexar Media has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission that seeks to bar import and sale of some Toshiba NAND flash memory chips and products containing them. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Intel and Red Hat have announced the creation of a global programme to help customers plan for, accelerate and optimise their deployments of Linux solutions. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
The number of households subscribing to Television via Internet Protocol (IPTV) services offered by telecom carriers in Western Europe will reach 3,3m this year and 16,7m in 2010, according to forecasts from Gartner. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Skype Technologies SA has acquired Internet voice technology company, Sonorit Holding AS and its US subsidiary, Camino Networks, for about $27m in eBay stock. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Ben Ames, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Driven by strong sales of its dual-core Opteron processor, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported $1,33bn in revenue for the first quarter of 2006, equalling analysts' estimates. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
CA has joined Carnegie Mellon University's Information Technology Services Qualification Centre (ITSqc) Research Consortium to develop and formulate sourcing best practices standards. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service (Taipei Bureau)
Intel has paid Micron Technology $230m for NAND flash memory designs and certain related technologies, as well as a perpetual licence to use and modify the designs. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
China Martens, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Red Hat's planned purchase of JBoss will enable the Linux distribution company to more fully embrace service-oriented architecture (SOA) as well as expand its offerings of integrated software stacks, according to company executives. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Microsoft Game Studios (MGS) has purchased UK-based Lionhead Studios, a video game developer and creator of 'Fable', the Xbox and Windows franchise. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Cisco Systems today announced the availability of the Cisco MDS 9513 Multilayer Director, Cisco SAN-OS Software Release 3.0, and 4Gbps and 10Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Modules for use in MDS 9000 family products. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Dell, EMC, Intel and LSI Logic have announced the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group (SBB), a co-operative, non-profit effort created to drive standardisation in entry-level external storage. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
Hackers have released a sample code for a virus that could infect both Linux and Windows PCs. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
HP has introduced the HP Compaq nx9420, said to carry the latest processor technology and improved performance to help mobile professionals stay connected and productive. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Barloworld Optimus, the inventory management company in the Barloworld Logistics stable, has recently announced a product in its CAST suite of supply chain network modelling tools. The software is designed to aid companies seeking to comply with carbon emission standards worldwide, and may help boost the hot speculation around the growing global market in 'carbon credits'. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Metastorm, distributed locally by Alliance Partner DVT, is now claimed to support Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, aiming to allow processes running in Metastorm's business process management software to take advantage of the Microsoft BizTalk 2006 Business Rules Engine. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
According to a survey by GSA, 79 HSDPA network deployments, an increase of 60% in five months, are planned or in implementation in 43 countries. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Sony says that it is offering a range of tape drives that support the Serial Advanced Technology Architecture (SATA) interface, and these products are now available through Pinnacle Micro. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Concilium Technologies has announced that Agilent Technologies successfully demonstrated 3,6Mbps packet-data throughput with its wireless one-box test set. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Sybase SA has announced the local availability of Sybase DataWindow .NET 2.0, a development tool for Microsoft .NET Framework-based environments that aims to simplify and accelerate the creation of data-driven applications. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Local distribution house, Workgroup, has announced the availability of VMware Server, a free entry-level hosted virtualisation product for Linux and Windows servers. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Spescom Software has announced that DocQNet - a local systems integrator - has been appointed a strategic partner for sub-Saharan Africa. Spescom Software is the US operation of JSE-listed Spescom. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
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SA software and hardware value-added reseller, AdvanceNet, has been appointed by Channel Data as a local Iron Mountain Digital Select Partner. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
A southern African technology distributor has teamed up with an education company to provide Microsoft training - much of it free of charge - so as to provide real added value to resellers. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Printacom, local brand representative for Oki Printing Solutions, has announced successful deals with a number of local independent Office Automation Partners (OAPs). [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Value-added distributor AmVia has appointed Solutions for Business Intelligence (SBi) as a value-added reseller of the EMC EmailXtender product. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Read in Computing SA this week: Oracle + Siebel = business sense, Huawei available in SA, Newman leaves FrontRange, Lucent sues Microsoft over Xbox patent, T-Systems adds RFID, 30 years of Apple: Assessing the impact, Data centre revolution closes innovation gap, Optimising for Opteron, Linux e-mail platforms pack a punch, Gates lays out future for enterprise apps. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Sadiq Malik, director of business operations, BCT Global
Today, people carry a host of portable communication devices - laptops, pagers, PDAs, multi-mode cell phones, two-way radio phones, etc. That is fine and well if you do not mind juggling a smorgasbord of electronics. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Keith Fairhurst, from EOH Technology Consulting, cautions companies to think about their ERP shopping spend.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) success is ultimately dominated by customer experience. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Craig Saks, chief operating officer, Fundamo
The mobile bank versus mobile banking debate is still raging, but what are the real fundamental differences between the two, and why is there so much noise around which is seemingly better? [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
Paul Luff, country manager at SMC Networks SA
The installation of a credible network that provides Internet connectivity and related services and access to information is, without doubt, crucial to the sustainability and success of any business today. [Issue:One Hundred and Eighty One (10/04-13/04)]
