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Four areas of focus for IT managers
Users all recognise the stereotypical IT manager sitting behind a desk in the company dungeon, wearing a t-shirt sporting an obscure geek reference, and sighing into the phone as he tries to convince the marketing manager to use a password other than "god', says...
VoIP shifts into top gear as fibre blooms
A very exciting development currently playing out in the voice over IP (VoIP) arena is the sudden growth in fibre business premises, says Rob Lith, director of Connection Telecom. Having fibre-ready offices makes a company’s transition to VoIP infinitely easier, as...
Take customer experience to the next level
The worldwide recession may be fading in some sectors, but its repercussions are only being felt now in others. This has resulted in many businesses having an increased focus on maximising value, and a greater need for that eternal business goal: greater efficiency. ...
Jo’burg is most popular in Africa
Johannesburg is set to be the most popular destination in Africa, with a projected 2,54-million international visitors expected to visit the city in 2013, according to the third annual MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index. Despite a marginal 5,5% increase in...
Pinnacle buys up 30% of Datacentrix
Pinnacle Technology Holdings is to buy close to 30% of Datacentrix for R237-million. The transaction is the result of an agreement with Co-ordinated Network Investments and Hoolican Investments in terms of which Pinnacle will acquire, in one indivisible transaction,...
Get ready for .joburg Web addresses
South African cities could soon get their own top level domains. The ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) welcomes the success of .joburg (dotJoburg) in the initial evaluation stage of ICANN’s new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) project. The .joburg application was...
Microsoft, Jobs Fund to create tech jobs
Microsoft South Africa has kicked off a partnership with government’s Jobs Fund that will train more than 3 000 unemployed graduates to get permanent jobs in the technology sector in the next three years. Jean-Phillippe Courtois, the president of Microsoft...
Ethernet switch market shows growth
The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) reached $5,28-billion in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), representing year-over-year growth of 2,1%. On a sequential basis the seasonally weaker 1Q13 declined 7,6% over 4Q12. Meanwhile, the worldwide router market...
BPO contributes jobs, GDP to W Cape
The BPO/contact centre industry in the Western Cape experienced impressive levels of growth in 2012, with an estimated 4 500 jobs created in the province. In total, the industry grew from 33 500 to 38 000 jobs, contributing approximately R8-billion to the region’s...
Absa claims SA first for cash rewards
In what it believes is a South African first, Absa has made it possible for South Africans on its rewards programme to further embrace mobile banking, unveiling instant redemption of cash rewards on its mobile banking platform, Absa.mobi. Through the Absa.mobi site,...
Dell unveils new data solutions
At its Dell Enterprise Forum customer and partner event, Dell unveiled new storage solutions and expanded analytics capabilities designed to help businesses improve their IT performance, support data insights and reduce overall costs. As businesses work to keep pace...
Unified communications comes of age
Three years ago unified communications (UC) was touted as having the potential to be the next thing since sliced bread and, today, it certainly seems to be living up to its promise – offering users a plethora of streamlined communications and accelerated business...
Antarc Furniture grows market share with SAP
Enterprise software solutions market leader SAP has played a critical role in helping East Africa’s leading furniture and lifestyle store, Antarc, significantly grow its business. Since implementing the SAP Business One, version for SAP HANA software in 2009, the...
Four areas of focus for IT managers
Users all recognise the stereotypical IT manager sitting behind a desk in the company dungeon, wearing a t-shirt sporting an obscure geek reference, and sighing into the phone as he tries to convince the marketing manager to use a password other than "god', says...
VoIP shifts into top gear as fibre blooms
A very exciting development currently playing out in the voice over IP (VoIP) arena is the sudden growth in fibre business premises, says Rob Lith, director of Connection Telecom. Having fibre-ready offices makes a company’s transition to VoIP infinitely easier, as...
Take customer experience to the next level
The worldwide recession may be fading in some sectors, but its repercussions are only being felt now in others. This has resulted in many businesses having an increased focus on maximising value, and a greater need for that eternal business goal: greater efficiency. ...
Jo’burg is most popular in Africa
Johannesburg is set to be the most popular destination in Africa, with a projected 2,54-million international visitors expected to visit the city in 2013, according to the third annual MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index. Despite a marginal 5,5% increase in...
Pinnacle buys up 30% of Datacentrix
Pinnacle Technology Holdings is to buy close to 30% of Datacentrix for R237-million. The transaction is the result of an agreement with Co-ordinated Network Investments and Hoolican Investments in terms of which Pinnacle will acquire, in one indivisible transaction,...
Get ready for .joburg Web addresses
South African cities could soon get their own top level domains. The ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) welcomes the success of .joburg (dotJoburg) in the initial evaluation stage of ICANN’s new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) project. The .joburg application was...
Microsoft, Jobs Fund to create tech jobs
Microsoft South Africa has kicked off a partnership with government’s Jobs Fund that will train more than 3 000 unemployed graduates to get permanent jobs in the technology sector in the next three years. Jean-Phillippe Courtois, the president of Microsoft...