iBurst & IT Crimes enable blacklisting of computers
Wireless broadband provider iBurst has partnered with IT Crimes, aiming to reduce computer theft in this country.
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First MASE accreditation for African woman
Anthea Nadin, Storage Area Network (SAN) architect at Aptronics, an HP specialist partner, has completed HP's Master Accredited Systems Engineer (MASE) accreditation, making her the first woman in Africa to obtain this specialist certification.
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Avaya appoints EMEA president
Avaya, a global provider of business communication applications, systems and services has announced the appointment of Carlos Sartorius as president of the EMEA region.
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Altron results show strong growth
Altron reported increases in both revenue, which was up by 14% to R14bn from R12,2bn, and operating income, which exceeded R1bn for the first time.
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M-WEB launches 1GB mailbox
M-WEB has launched a new 1 Gigabyte (1GB) mailbox, which aims to enable users to store up to 50 times the number of e-mails or large attachments than could be stored previously.
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LAW Holdings launches L@Wtrust
Specialist application service provider LAW Holdings (L@W) has announced the establishment of an independent company, L@Wtrust, aiming to meet the need for trusted third party services and application security in the SA marketplace.
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'SA needs minister of ICT'
The SA government faces a variety of issues in delivering on its mandate to provide services to citizens efficiently.
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Local distribution house, Workgroup, has announced the appointment of Dean Healy as its Borland brand manager.
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Pastel to showcase Evolution mobile features
Softline Pastel says that it will showcase the features of Pastel Evolution Version 3, including its PDA module at its stand during FutureX.
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Sony to exhibit at Equip 2006
Sony has announced that it will be exhibiting at Equip, the exhibition for business equipment, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre from May 16 - 19, in conjunction with Futurex and LinuxWorld.
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Choice Technologies and Tibco Software sign eThekwini municipality
Choice Technologies, an enterprise solutions provider, and Tibco Software, a global business integration and process management software company, today announced that they have partnered with Dynatech (part of the Smart Exchange initiative) to provide the eThekwini Municipality with a Business Process Management (BPM) solution aimed at increasing organisational efficiency and driving down costs.
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Armscor implements solutions-driven approach for skills development
With transformation as the motivation, Armscor says that it has realised the critical need for skills-development within its workforce.
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TippingPoint unveils managed security offering
TippingPoint, a division of 3Com and provider in intrusion prevention solutions, has launched a managed security service (MSS) for the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), aiming to enable enterprises to cost-effectively outsource and centralise the 24 x 7 management and monitoring of global, multi-site IPS deployments for a complete view of the organisation's security health.
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Absa chooses MCI for on-line share trading site revamp
MCI Consultants has announced that it was the company chosen by Absa Stockbrokers to undertake the development work behind phase 2 of the latter's on-line share trading service, which has recently been launched.
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Newport Scientific to present enterprise security product at Futurex
Newport Scientific Research, a technology company based in California, will present its flagship FBiDrive product at Futurex.
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Micros Fidelio signs with Softline ACCPAC
Softline ACCPAC and channel partner, AccTech Systems, have signed a R1,2m deal with Micros Fidelio, a provider of food and beverage and front office hotel management systems.
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CITI and TT100 to focus on Western Cape technology innovation
The Cape IT Initiative (CITI) is once again partnering with the Technology Top 100 (TT100) awards programme to recognise the achievements of the Cape IT sector.
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Paul Krill, InfoWorld (US online)
Recognising a role for its big-iron boxes in contemporary Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, IBM has unveiled tools and initiatives intended to give its mainframe more prominence in SOA.
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Dell to design enterprise products in India
John Ribeiro, IDG News Service (Bangalore Bureau)
Dell is setting up a team in Bangalore, India, to design enterprise servers and storage products.
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CA's Mark Barrenchea leaving for vendor buyout firm
Matthew Hamblen, Computerworld (US online)
Mark Barrenechea, the chief technology officer at CA, says that he will depart the management software maker in mid-June to join vendor buyout firm, Garnett & Helfrich Capital.
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Cisco Catalyst passes $20bn revenue mark
According to Cisco, its Catalyst 6500 recently passed the largest revenue mark in networking history: earning more than $20bn in revenue.
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Avaya aims to ensure 99,99% network reliability for World Cup
Avaya, which is building the converged communication network for the Fifa World Cup, has been testing the networks configuration, reliability and security.
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RIM led PDA industry to 7% growth in Q1 - Gartner
Worldwide PDA shipments totalled 3,65m units in the first quarter of 2006, a 6,6% increase from the first quarter of last year, according to Gartner.
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Kemri ensures continued research with APC
Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), one of the country's largest research companies, has invested in American Power Conversion (APC) Symmetra LX uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes) to protect computer equipment at its coastal region research institute.
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Self-serve upgrades give EMC tools the edge
Nestor E. Arellano, ITWorldCanada.com
EMC hopes to trump big league competitors IBM and Hewlett-Packard Development Company, with a line of storage management products that aims to give users greater freedom in doing their own upgrades.
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Nokia smart phone targets BlackBerry users
Nestor E. Arellano, ITWorldCanada.com
Recent legal setbacks suffered by Research In Motion (RIM) appear to have left the converged handheld device market ripe for the picking.
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Lucent, Alcatel form integration team
Jim Duffy, Network World (US online)
Alcatel and Lucent have formed a team that will lead the integration and transition planning efforts of the companies' merger.
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Two top execs leave SAS
Heather Havenstein, Computerworld (US online)
Two top executives have resigned from the SAS Institute in the past three weeks, prompting the company's CEO to take the reins for US commercial sales and the government and education markets for the foreseeable future.
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Check Point addresses security complexity
Check Point Software Technologies, a global supplier of Internet security solutions, says that it has advanced its flagship VPN-1 brand of network security solutions by releasing two product lines focused on Unified Threat Management (UTM) and high performance security.
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Citrix acquires Reflectent Software
Citrix Systems, a global provider of access infrastructure solutions, has announced its acquisition of privately held Reflectent Software, provider of solutions which monitor the performance of client-server, Web and desktop applications from an end-user perspective.
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Motorola signs $33m contract with NITEL
Nigeria Telecommunication (Nitel) has signed a contract with Motorola for the deployment of a code division multiple access (CDMA) network across Lagos.
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Intel names upcoming PC, laptop processors
The Intel Core2 Duo processor is the brand name for Intel's upcoming processor families for desktop and laptop computers that will arrive in the third quarter, the company says.
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Softline Enterprise has launched Sage 1000, its mid-market product in the business management software market.
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Acer expands range of monitors
Acer SA has added to its Prestige, Office and Gamer's line of LCD monitors, aiming to give professional and home users an even wider range of value and performance displays from which to choose.
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Sony launches network media card
ICTWorld exclusive
Sony has launched an in-store digital signage system that is said to be affordable, easy to install, expandable and reliable.
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Minolta SA extends bizhub range
Bidvest Group company, Minolta SA, has introduced the bizhub 350 and bizhub 250, two multifunctional devices said to have printing speeds of 35 pages per minute (ppm) and 25ppm respectively.
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'WD Sata hard drives deliver 1,2m hours MTBF'
Drive Control Corporation (DCC) has introduced Western Digital's RE2 (Raid Edition) 500GB Sata hard drives.
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Pinnacle announces Proline home entertainment unit
Digital lifestyle specialist, Pinnacle Micro, has announced the availability of the Proline Mega Media Centre.
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Softline ACCPAC showcases latest version of Accpac CRM at Futurex
Softline ACCPAC will be showcasing the latest version of its customer relationship management (CRM) solution, Accpac CRM version 5.8 at Futurex next week.
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Large enterprise data centre evolution accelerated
At the Cisco EXPO in Berlin, Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) and Cisco Systems announced a technology collaboration agreement which aims to give a boost to the ongoing enterprise trend of integration between networking and data centre management.
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Siemens develops small telephone network with peer-to-peer
Siemens says that it has developed a telephone system that does not require a switchboard, and will make costly installations and maintenance work on telephone systems a thing of the past.
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Samsung unveils its first digital SLR - the GX-1S
Samsung is announcing its advance into the digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) camera arena with the launch of the six mega-pixel GX-1S.
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Platform for mobile developers announced
Adcheck Mobile has acquired the local distribution rights for Logotec Mobile, a mobile development platform.
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Fiorano Software announces SOA 2006 Enhanced Suite
Fiorano Software, a provider of business process integration and enterprise messaging solutions, today announced the release of its updated Fiorano SOA 2006 E (Enhanced) Software Suite.
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FSC unveils models in FibreCAT CX series
Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has taken the wraps off three FibreCAT CX models for midsized to large companies.
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Kyocera rolls out Ecosys workgroup printer range
Kyocera is launching a product family with four devices in the A4/A3 monochrome printer market for workgroups: the FS-2000D, FS-3900DN, FS-4000DN and FS-6950DN.
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HP is putting significant marketing rands behind the HP Preferred Partner Programme, aiming to ensure that end-customers recognise the value that Preferred Partners bring to their business.
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Tarsus opens branches in Namibia and Botswana
Just under a year since its initial foray into the sub-Saharan Africa market, Tarsus Technologies has announced a substantial increase in its African revenues and the establishment of new branches in Namibia and Botswana.
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XFX partnership with Fatal1ty will change the face of gaming - Axiz
IT infrastructure distributor, Axiz, says that the announcement from XFX, manufacturer of nVidia-based graphics cards, about its partnership with Auravision, the master licensor for Fatal1ty brand products, is a major coup and will change the face of gaming.
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Pinnacle takes on RAIDtec agency
Local broad-based ICT supplier, Pinnacle Micro, is now representing Raidtec storage solutions, a division of Plasmon Data.
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Storgate clinches Infortrend distribution
Storgate Africa has announced its appointment as a distributor of the Infortrend range of hardware-based storage solutions for southern Africa.
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Read in Computing SA this week: Durban prepares for broadband roll-out, Future of Oracle customers' investment secure, Security number one with IP migration, The holy grail of IT, Clarity required on certain aspects of EC Act, McNealy's CEO tenure ends at Sun; employees hopeful, Internet Explorer 7 has no soul, Cisco hits on firewall/VPN, The Channel, Safe at Home.
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SA consumer goods manufacturers are facing the archetypal 'winner's dilemma', says Accenture senior executive, Wayne Borchardt.
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Local women show schools that IT is not just for geeks
The Cape IT Initiative has embarked on its Women in IT project, which aims to redress the gender imbalance currently affecting in the ICT industry.
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Survey reveals poor Web site performance is costing businesses millions
While the transactional Web site is increasingly finding its way into the marketer's arsenal for growing reach and revenues by making it easier and more cost-effective to deliver products and services to customers, a survey of European retailers and financial services companies found that these sites were costing their initiators millions.
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Model-driven architecture will produce quicker, better software
Gerrie Swart, regional technical specialist for Compuware's development environments, Optimal and Uniface
More than 50 years into the computer era, we are now living in the age of software.
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Quality initiatives are failing to gain traction - survey
Research from Compuware has revealed that European organisations are neglecting quality in application development.
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