Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, Tito Mboweni, addressed attendees to Microsofts SITO Summit, held at Fancourt in George, from May 17 to 19.
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PC sales soar during Q1 2006 - BMI-T
ICT market analyst, BMI-TechKnowledge (BMI-T) has released the latest figures for the SA PC market Q1 2006, with the sector performing better than expected.
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Absa warns against new card skimming scam
Absa has warned ATM users against a new variation of card skimming at ATMs.
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SA Tourism invests in R2m Oracle solution from Navigor
SA Tourism says that it has successfully implemented Oracle's e-Business Suite Special Edition a suite of business applications designed specifically for companies that have 10 to 500 employees.
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MultiChoice launches first agency in Soweto
MultiChoice has announced the opening of its first agency in Pimville, Soweto.
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Innovation Group buys Websoft Maven
Business process outsourcing company and software company, Innovation Group, formerly known as eQuals Group, announced that its purchase of insurance software and bureau service company, Websoft Maven, was to offer a more flexible to the short term insurers and brokers.
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Ingate MEDIAtor expands Microsoft LCS capabilities
Ingate Systems, which develops firewall technology and products that enable SIP-based live communication for the enterprise, while maintaining control and security at the network edge, has launched the MEDIAtor, a configuration of the Ingate SIParator that aims to enable companies using a Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) Access Proxy to support media traversal for Federated and Remote users.
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WMI and Johncom announce SA joint venture
Warner Music International (WMI) and Johnnic Communications (Johncom) have announced a joint venture to create Warner Music Gallo Africa (WMGA), a music-based content company.
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Westcon AME announces new CEO
Datatec's Westcon AME has announced the appointment of Jacques Malherbe as CEO.
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BizCall launches new generation telephony solutions
During a presentation in Johannesburg yesterday, BizCall, the open source PABX and Call Centre specialist within the DataPro Group of telecommunication companies, launched its answer to traditional PABX and Call Centre solutions.
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MTN releases annual report
The MTN Group has released its annual report for the year ended 31 December 2005.
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Santam uses hi-tech voting method at AGM
Short-term insurer, Santam, will use an interactive system that allows for electronic shareholder vote registration with real-time tally results at its upcoming AGM.
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Jet Stores drives business online
Jet Stores has enhanced its Web site, aiming to help drive new business by adding online services and reinforcing the Jet brand through electronic marketing.
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3fifteen helps Edcon improve quality assurance
Edcon says that quality assurance has been assisted with the implementation of a workflow and business intelligence (BI) solution, Horizon.
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Microsoft CRM gives IOM improves levels of customer service
Insurance Outsourcing Managers (IOM), an independent financial services provider to the short-term insurance industry, has selected Microsoft CRM to provide a single point of contact for all customer-related information, and to improve workflow throughout its sales process.
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'MMS takes off as a marketing tool'
Exactmobile and Multi Media Solutions have partnered to provide MMS marketing services for the likes of Nashua, LG, Vodashop, Makro and Jumbo Stores.
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Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Dublin Bureau)
In a bid to encourage the mobile phone industry to standardise on a single Web browser, Nokia has released the source code for the mobile phone Web browser it developed last year.
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Intel, Microsoft collaborate on pay-as-you-go PCs
Intel and Microsoft have announced that the companies will collaborate to engineer and deliver flexible, pay-as-you-go PC purchasing models for consumers in emerging markets.
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Worldwide RDBMS market increased by 8% last year - Gartner
Worldwide relational database management systems (RDBMS) total software revenue totalled $13,8bn last year, an 8,3% increase from 2004 revenue, according to Gartner.
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Motorola has been selected as primary supplier to Wateen Telecom, part of Warid Telecom International, to plan, design and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband voice and data network in Pakistan, with initial deployment to be completed by the second half of 2006.
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Microsoft, Hyperion collaborate to enable interoperability
Hyperion and Microsoft have announced plans to integrate their business intelligence (BI) solutions to enable improved interoperability between the technologies.
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Insurance.com powers Web-based sales with Informatica
Insurance.com, the US online auto insurance company, has chosen the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform to help power its online, real-time insurance quoting and purchasing service.
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T-Mobile building W-CDMA networks with Siemens technology
T-Mobile Deutschland (Bonn) and T-Mobile Austria (Vienna) are buying mobile communications technology and services designed to expand their W-CDMA networks from the Siemens Communications Group.
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Software 'enables interaction management across the enterprise'
Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories has released Genesys 7.2, a version of its contact centre software suite said to have major advances in the scalability, reliability and security needed for IP contact centres.
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Intel Capital extends Wimax investments
Intel Capital, the venture capital investment arm of Intel Corp, has announced the signing of two Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wimax) agreements.
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Retail tops european league of paper wasters
The retail sector has the highest rate of paper wastage in Europe with a quarter (25%) of all pages in the workplace printed for nothing, according to new research conducted by Ipsos on behalf of Lexmark, the printing solutions provider.
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Gartner launches three offerings
Gartner has announced three offerings within the Gartner for IT Leaders product suite.
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Oracle opens registration for OpenWorld
Oracle has opened registration for Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2006, to be held from October 22 - 26 at the Moscone Centre.
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Most business networks over-engineered, overpriced and underperforming - Gartner
Most businesses continue to implement outdated network design and procurement practices, leading to over-engineered, overpriced but under-performing networking infrastructures, according to Gartner.
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SAP supercharges BI
SAP AG has announced the general availability of the business intelligence (BI) accelerator, which, the company says, increases the speed of analysing critical BI up to 200 times faster than alternative tools.
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Worldwide server shipments increase by 14%, but industry revenue remains flat - Gartner
Worldwide server shipments for the first quarter of 2006 increased by 13,7% over the same quarter last year, while worldwide server revenue for the same period remained flat, according to Gartner.
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The link between Sarbanes-Oxley Act and e-mail
Ulli Reyneke, new business development executive at Cornastone Consulting
Motivated by corporate scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has profoundly changed the way in which organisations do business.
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Motorola has announced the Motorola A1200, a premium phone based on the Linux operating system, and designed for maximum productivity and entertainment value.
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Xerox 'cuts networked printing costs'
ICTWorld exclusive
Xerox, represented locally by Bytes Document Solutions, says that it has enhanced its Xerox Office Services (XOS) offering for companies with expanding arrays of printing devices from multiple vendors.
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Compuware simplifies load testing
Compuware has introduced the latest version of its performance testing solution, Compuware QALoad 5.5.
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ICTWorld exclusive
Pogo, an SA-based company, has launched a mobile phone file sharing platform, and is looking to benefit from the growing demand for mobile phone applications in the youth market.
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'Novell breakthrough accelerates Linux adoption'
Novell has announced availability and details of a process that is designed to solve Linux device driver compatibility issues.
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Deutsche Bank receives eight millionth Cisco IP telephone
Cisco Systems has announced the shipment of its eight millionth Cisco unified Internet Protocol (IP) telephone to Deutsche Bank.
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Marshal has released its e-mail security and management solution, MailMarshal SMTP 2006, which aims to combine spam URL black list lookups and spam filtering based on country of origin.
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eTrex Venture Cx - 'Pocket-sized mapping'
Garmin International has announced an entry-level GPS navigator.
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KnowledgeTree document management software now available
KnowledgeTree has announced the release of its Professional Edition, which, the company says, is an easy to install version that extends the KnowledgeTree Open Source feature set, and which is shipped with commercial support.
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BMC Software to 'provide DB2 V9 mainframe support'
BMC Software has announced that it will fully support IBM's DB2 V9 on zSeries, aiming to provide customers with the broadest and most advanced DB2 data management solutions available, including the ability to migrate cleanly from DB2 V8 to subsequent versions.
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Epson introduces the Stylus Photo RX640
The latest addition to Epson's all-in-one photo printer range is the Stylus Photo RX640.
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LG unwraps 'Chocolate' phone
LG Electronics has launched this year's must-have mobile phone the LG Chocolate phone.
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Workgroup delivers Novell Linux Workgroup Suite
Workgroup has introduced a workgroup suite for the open enterprise that aims to provide organisations with a flexible and cost-productive solution based on proven, open standards-based software
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Hosted mobile e-mail product for local SoHo market
OpenHand has announced an offering aimed at businesses that do not have a dedicated e mail server.
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Tarsus announces local availability of 2ms LCDs
LCD monitors have been held back from strong uptake in the high-end gaming and graphics manipulation markets because of their sluggish response times.
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Removing the hassle of managing paper medical claims
Paper claims management is a headache for medical scheme administrators, members and healthcare practitioners alike.
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) has appointed Lightedge as a corporate reseller for SA.
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ProScan appointed distributor for DRS tablets
ProScan Systems has extended its hardware range to include the DRS family of rugged pen tablets.
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Court order in favour of Microsoft
The High Court of SA has ruled in favour of Microsoft's application for default judgment against software re-seller PC Games World CC.
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Juniper entrusts full range to Channel Data
Juniper Networks has appointed Channel Data to distribute its full product portfolio with immediate effect.
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Origami is a 'good start', says Tarsus
Over the past couple of weeks the IT market has been abuzz with rumours, speculation and opinion surrounding the release of Microsoft's 'Project Origami' platform and the numerous hardware vendors that have jumped on the bandwagon.
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Read in Computing SA this week: Motorola goes RED, ICT research to be carried out in Soweto, Four Js adds database to product range, Security is 'SPOT' on, Netcare 911 gets 'Tough', Lowering the barriers, Schmidt: Search remains Google's top focus, Sun wades deeper into open source, IBM's collaboration tools evolve, Technology for the SME - What do they want and what do they need?.
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E-mail management policy vital for compliance with legislation
Daniel Hall, MD of IA Systems, says that 60% to 70% of major local corporations in the financial services and mining industries have no e-mail management policy in place.
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European telecoms sector: investment vital to plug looming 'revenue gap'
Unless it commits to investments in infrastructure, branding and content, the European telecommunications industry faces the risk of a shortfall between growth expectations and future revenues, according to Next Generation Gap, a report released by professional services provider Ernst & Young.
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SOA offers growth opportunity for service vendors - BMI-T/IDC
According to a recent IDC study that examined and compared major service providers with service oriented architecture (SOA)-based professional services offerings and capabilities, SOA is being heralded as the most effective way to overcome the complexities involved in creating businesses that are agile and adaptive enough to address the ever-changing market dynamics.
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Extended ERP functionality and local, global harmonisation the latest industry trend
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) has come a long way from its hype days and the period where the real question was simply 'will it succeed?'
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Five simple rules for successful self-service
John Ziniades, CEO, Consology
Online customer self-service can pay off handsomely for companies that make the investment in the technology, but it also often disappoints those who do not get the basics right.
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