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Rectron has become an official local distributor for hard drive and external storage device manufacturer, Seagate, fortifying the companies' existing three-year relationship, which saw Rectron sub-distributing the company's range of products to local users.
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VoIP leads cost-cutting drive in corporate telecoms - BMI-T
African ICT market research and analysis company, BMI-TechKnowledge, has announced the publication of its latest report entitled the South African Telecoms Business Customer Analysis (Corporate and SME).
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Expanding its CRM offering
Softworx, regional SSA Global master distributor, and a member of the EOH Group, has recently expanded its range of offerings to include the Epiphany CRM suite of products, following SSA Global's acquisition of Epiphany CRM late last year.
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'Online media comes of age in SA'
Local online advertising revenue is expected to reach R183m in 2006, and to pass the R200m mark in 2007, according to a survey from World Wide Worx.
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DigiCall in outsource deal with BEE newcomer
Outsourced services provider DigiCall has announced a partnership with administration and software services company, Red i Solutions, aiming to position the partners to offer comprehensive outsourced claims processing to the financial services industry.
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Sentech signs agreement with GlobeCast Africa
Local telecommunications company, Sentech, has signed a commercial co-operation agreement with GlobeCast Africa, a global content management and content delivery company, aiming to enable programme satellite linking to and from anywhere in the world.
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Cellphone banking users continue trend
March 2006 figures claim that Absa's clients are finding value in using their cellphones as a bank.
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Foster-Melliar renames BS15 000
Foster-Melliar's BS 15000 (SANS 15000) certification course has been renamed in line with the issuing of a new International Service Management standard.
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SAP gives small businesses access to business strategy
SAP Africa will use its stand at Futurex to showcase its Business Edge Programme, which is designed specifically to provide small businesses with strategic capabilities that aim to help them, among other important business decisions, to select the software most suitable to their objectives.
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SMS service for on-line flower market
Flowers.co.za, a local e-commerce flower and gift retailer, has announced that it is to offer an SMS service to clients that will forewarn them of pending occasions, such as birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions - an announcement that is believed to be an industry first for the on-line flower market.
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Datacentrix hits R1bn revenue mark
IT services and solutions provider, Datacentrix, has announced positive annual financial results for the year ended 28 February 2006, recording a landmark R1bn in revenue.
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Standard Bank expands cellphone banking
Standard Bank has made its cellphone Internet banking service available on the 'Mobile Internet' sites of all three cellular networks.
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MySQL CEO would like to partner with IBM, Microsoft
China Martens, IDG News Service (Boston Bureau)
Looking at potential partners, the companies with which MySQL AB would most like to have a relationship are IBM and Microsoft, according to Marten Mickos, CEO of the open source database company.
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Winternals obtains restraining order against Geek Squad
A federal judge has granted a request by Winternals Software for a temporary restraining order (TRO), requiring that Best Buy and its subsidiary, Geek Squad, immediately stop using and pirating unlicensed versions of Winternals' copyrighted software.
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Cisco to increase investment in Saudi Arabia
Grant Gross, IDG News Service (Washington Bureau)
Cisco Systems will spend $265m in Saudi Arabia over the next five years by adding about 530 employees, opening a technology and entrepreneurial demonstration centre and donating training and networking equipment in poor areas, the company says.
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Torvalds patches Linux kernel, fixes broken virus
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau)
The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system.
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Software, microelectronics drive IBM profit
Shelley Solheim, IDG News Service (New York Bureau)
A focus on higher-margin products and strong sales in middleware and microelectronics helped fuel IBM first quarter profit, the company says.
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CA to acquire Cybermation
CA is to acquire Cybermation, a privately-held provider of enterprise workload automation solutions, for $75m in an all-cash transaction.
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Bull and SAS strengthen BI partnership
SAS and Bull say that they are strengthening their partnership, with a joint initiative destined for the implementation of advanced BI solutions around ERP in Europe.
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FSC claims sales increase
Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) says that it has strengthened its position within the global mobile technology space by selling more tablet PCs and convertibles within Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) than any other manufacturer last year.
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Software AG joins open source Eclipse Foundation
John Blau, IDG News Service (Düsseldorf Bureau)
Germany's Software AG has joined the Eclipse Foundation, an open source community focused on providing an open development platform for building software.
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Nokia, Qualcomm squabble over patent licence
Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
Terse statements this week from Nokia and Qualcomm point to a licensing dispute over Nokia's continued use of important Qualcomm CDMA patents.
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Novell acquires e-Security
Novell has announced its acquisition of e-Security, a move that is intended to make Novell a pioneer in delivering a single view of security and compliance activities across the entire enterprise.
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Intel Q1 revenue reaches $8,9bn
Intel has announced first-quarter revenue of $8,9bn, operating income of $1,7bn, net income of $1,3bn and earnings per share (EPS) of 23 cents.
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Global semiconductor spending to increase by 14% - Gartner
Led by back-end equipment segments, the worldwide semiconductor capital equipment market is forecast to total $38,8bn in 2006, a 14,3% increase from 2005, according to the latest estimates by Gartner.
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To meet market demand for portable storage, Maxtor has announced it is shipping the Maxtor OneTouch III, Mini Edition drive, the company's first small form factor external storage solution.
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Minolta SA launches high volume workhorse
Bidvest Group company, Minolta SA, has introduced the Konica Minolta bizhub PRO 920, said to be a 92 page per minute (ppm) digital multifunctional printer targeted at the professional production print market and high volume office environments.
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Lexmark rolls out compact monochrome lasers
Lexmark International has introduced four affordable monochrome laser printers for small office/home office (SoHo) customers and small workgroups.
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Lexmark announces multifunction printers
Lexmark International has announced five monochrome multifunction laser printers, the Lexmark X644e, X646dte, X850e, X852e and X854e.
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IP Integration provides lower cost messaging solution
Active Voice, LLC, a global provider of unified messaging, computer telephony, and voice messaging solutions, has announced that its Repartee for Windows version 2.4 unified communications solution will offer IP integration to the Mitel 3300 Integrated Communications Platform (ICP).
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Sahara releases Celeron wireless notebook
As part of its effort towards increasing mobile computer penetration, Sahara Computers has released an Intel Celeron-based notebook, the NB7610 series.
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Covering all its graphics bases
Axiz has announced the availability of the nVidia GeForce 7 Series 7600 GT, 7900 GT and 7900 GTX graphics processing units (GPUs).
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Dell unveils next-generation mobile workstations
Dell recently unveiled two next-generation mobile workstations, the Dell Precision M90 and Dell Precision M65.
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Cisco announces next-generation solution
Cisco Systems has announced the availability of its next-generation Application Delivery solution, the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE), with performance of up to 16Gbps of throughput, multi-layer security, and virtual partitioning capabilities, the company says.
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AirMagnet integrates spectrum analysis to improve accuracy of surveys
Concilium Technologies has announced that AirMagnet has integrated radio frequency (RF) spectrum analysis into the 802.11 site survey.
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Sun opens UltraSPARC T1 and HyperVisor APIs
Sun Microsystems recently announced that its OpenSPARC initiative has released the UltraSPARC Architecture 2005 and HyperVisor API specifications to the market, aiming to help to jump-start the porting of Linux, BSD and other operating systems, middleware and applications to the UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology.
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EMC rolls out CLARiiON AX150 storage solution
EMC has announced the release of the CLARiiON AX150 storage solution for the SME market.
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LG unveils 'Emotional' series LCD monitor
LG has introduced its latest LCD monitor, the 'Emotional' series.
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) specialist Software AG SA has appointed integration services company Osilio as its first strategic SOA partner in this country.
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Storgate Africa adds Imation and Exabyte to distribution mix
Storgate Africa has announced the conclusion of distribution agreements with Imation and Exabyte, which are expected to see the company bolstering its presence in the tape and tape-media market, and, in turn, strengthen its overall focus on strategic storage solutions.
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Aztech arrives in SA
Shiro, a subsidiary of Aztech Systems, a Singapore public listed company and supplier of data communication, voice communication and multimedia products, has announced the appointment of Esquire Technologies as the local distributor for the Aztech brand of data communication products.
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Axiz showcases digital and mobile products
Mobile and digital technologies are taking the world by storm.
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Xerox appoints Rectron as SA distributor
Rectron has been appointed as an official SA distributor for Xerox.
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Jeremy Waterman, MD at Softline ACCPAC, believes that data integration will remain key to business intelligence (BI) success, despite the hype over new technologies and trends.
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Take a pragmatic approach to meet the IT challenge
Gerrit Bus, country manager - Compuware
Today's IT organisations face a wide array of challenges, from cutting costs to enabling business innovation, executives are asked to do it all, yet, at the same time, be expected to deliver quality results and superior service on a daily basis.
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Is wireless hazardous to your health?
Craig J. Mathias, Computerworld (US online)
Let us get right to the question: Do cell phones cause brain tumours, any other form of cancer or any other disease?
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