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mapIT offers SAPO-compliant postal data
mapIT, the leading international digital mapping provider, has built a geospatial layer which is SAPO (South African Post Office) compliant. This data layer includes over 900 postal code areas and in addition to this also incorporates over 2 400 post office sites with...
Use Valentine’s Day to grow team spirit
Valentine’s Day is a day aimed at allowing people to share their love and admirations for one another. However, while there are certain behaviours that are simply not appropriate for the workplace, employers need to take into consideration how their employees may...
J2, Skyview Partners ink distribution deal
Local ICT company, J2 Software, has scooped the exclusive distribution rights to SkyView Partners security and compliance offerings for Africa. Skyview Partners specialises in security and compliance solutions specifically aimed at IBMi (previously iSeries), AIX and...
E-learning is ideal for South Africa
Creating e-learning content is about to be made a whole lot easier in the southern African region. The days of using expensive consultants are numbered with the introduction of new international players in the South African e-learning market. As data speeds improve in...
Good managers have been there, done that
A story is always best told by someone who experienced it firsthand. Second-hand stories simply do not have the same credibility. The same is true of management: it is far easier to follow instructions and take guidance from a person who once did what you are now...
Nedbank acquires iNetco system
Driven by growth – it has signed up 2-million new individual and small business clients over the last two years – Nedbank has acquired the iNetco system to improve its operational efficiency in the face of growing transaction performance complexities. With Nedbank’s...
SA MPOS set for world stage
Mobile point of sale (MPOS) payments company, Emerge Mobile, is the first South African organisation to achieve Payments Council International Payment Terminal Security (PCI-PTS), and Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) Level 1 and 2 certifications for its MPOS payment...
Flexible working helps stem staff turnover
Business people in South Africa reveal flexible working is often the make-or-break of job offers - 82% reveal that they would choose one job over another similar one, if it offered flexible working. And 76% confirm that flexible working also improves staff retention,...
XP support ends soon; users urged to act now
On 8 April 2014, Microsoft will be withdrawing support for Windows XP. With no security or technical updates or bug fixes, any Windows XP device will be far more vulnerable to security threats including hackers and viruses. While the majority of organisations will...
Ericsson, Unitel demo LTE-A in Africa
In an African first, Ericsson, together with Angolan telecommunications provider Unitel, has successfully demonstrated LTE Advanced (LTE-A) Carrier Aggregation technology. The demonstration was done on both 1800MHz and 900MHz spectrum bands on a commercial network,...
Telkom CFO in disciplinary hearing today
Telkom has confirmed to its stakeholders that the confidential disciplinary hearing involving Telkom’s CFO, Jacques Schindehütte, on a matter of personal misconduct is scheduled to commence in Johannesburg today (16 January 2014). This disciplinary hearing is the...
Switching to VoIP is easy and affordable
Many businesses are missing out on the many advantages of VoIP (Voice over IP) telephony because they believe the cost of having to “scrap” their entire analogue system and start from scratch, is too high. However, says Hennie van Tonder, head of products at MWeb...
DataTegra wins Kaspersky partner award
Specialist IT security solutions and service provider DataTegra has received the inaugural African Enterprise Partner of the Year award from Kaspersky Lab. The Enterprise Partner of the Year award, based on the total value of sales and new business brought in, is the...
mapIT offers SAPO-compliant postal data
mapIT, the leading international digital mapping provider, has built a geospatial layer which is SAPO (South African Post Office) compliant. This data layer includes over 900 postal code areas and in addition to this also incorporates over 2 400 post office sites with...
Use Valentine’s Day to grow team spirit
Valentine’s Day is a day aimed at allowing people to share their love and admirations for one another. However, while there are certain behaviours that are simply not appropriate for the workplace, employers need to take into consideration how their employees may...
J2, Skyview Partners ink distribution deal
Local ICT company, J2 Software, has scooped the exclusive distribution rights to SkyView Partners security and compliance offerings for Africa. Skyview Partners specialises in security and compliance solutions specifically aimed at IBMi (previously iSeries), AIX and...
E-learning is ideal for South Africa
Creating e-learning content is about to be made a whole lot easier in the southern African region. The days of using expensive consultants are numbered with the introduction of new international players in the South African e-learning market. As data speeds improve in...
Good managers have been there, done that
A story is always best told by someone who experienced it firsthand. Second-hand stories simply do not have the same credibility. The same is true of management: it is far easier to follow instructions and take guidance from a person who once did what you are now...
Nedbank acquires iNetco system
Driven by growth – it has signed up 2-million new individual and small business clients over the last two years – Nedbank has acquired the iNetco system to improve its operational efficiency in the face of growing transaction performance complexities. With Nedbank’s...
SA MPOS set for world stage
Mobile point of sale (MPOS) payments company, Emerge Mobile, is the first South African organisation to achieve Payments Council International Payment Terminal Security (PCI-PTS), and Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV) Level 1 and 2 certifications for its MPOS payment...