Telkom deal with KT may bring benefits

The R4,7-billion offer from South Korea-based KT Corporation to buy a 20% stake in Telkom has been welcomed by analysts as being "good news" for the local fixed-line telecommunications company. Read more >>

New technical executive for Adapt IT

Adapt IT, an independent technology solutions and services company based in KwaZulu-Natal, has appointed Kevin Dees as technical executive for Adapt IT Solutions, a subsidiary of the Adapt IT Group. Dees joins the company following a 17-year period with Hewlett Packard in South Africa and several other countries including Germany and France. Read more >>

Netbiscuits Mobile Web Metrics Report findings published

Netbiscuits, the platform for developing, publishing and monetising mobile sites and apps across all connected devices, recently published the latest edition of its Mobile Web Metrics Report, which found that smartphones are the most important web access channel, but highly fragmented; iOS is not as dominant as once it was; and HTML5 adoption does not match the hype. Read more >>

Cloud desktop solution by IS

Internet Solutions (IS) is launching, in partnership with Silicon Sky, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution. Called "Desktop in the Cloud", the new solution delivers Microsoft Windows desktops on a Desktop-as-a-Service basis. According to IS, the addition of this hosted desktop solution positions the company as a complete end-to-end corporate cloud-based solution provider. Read more >>

Neotel to run Network Operating Centre for WACS

Neotel has been contracted to run the primary Network Operating Centre (NOC) for the West Africa Cable System (WACS). The NOC requires highly specialised skills to oversee the operation, maintenance, configuration, testing and monitoring of the WACS cable. Read more >>

GetCertfied offers opportunities to matriculants

Globally CIOs and recruitment agencies are seriously concerned about the impending skills shortages in the ICT sector. In South Africa, these same concerns are being echoed and hopefully the thousands of matriculants will capitalise on this opportunity. Read more >>

Maximizer CRM 12 now available in SA

Maximizer Software recently announced that Maximizer CRM 12 is now available in South Africa. This new version features LinkedIn integration and built-in mobile and web access. Read more >>

EXCLUSIVE: New Brand Council of SA announces office bearers

The board of the new Brand Council of South Africa (BCSA) has elected HKLM's Sean McCoy as chairman, and Interbrand Sampson's Jeremy Sampson and Brand Leadership's Thebe Ikalafeng as joint vice chairs. The BCSA, incorporates the Brand Design Council (formerly known as THINK), was constituted after extensive debate around the need for a collective voice to represent, strengthen and advance the interests of the wider branding and design industry in SA, and it. Read more >>

Rolling Stone South Africa: the first in-depth interview

[Johann Smith] "Rolling Stone" - it was the writing on the wall found backstage at Rocking the Daisies. It was a hint, a secret, that the writer wanted musicians to know first, before anyone else. There is no way of saying it better: Rolling Stone magazine is coming to South Africa in November 2011. Johann Smith and Ruth Cooper of Bizcommunity.com's BizLounge speak to Miles Keylock, editor-in-chief of RS SA. Read more >>

South Africans are overweight - survey

South Africans weigh in as the third fattest nation on earth. A survey done in 2010 by Glaxo SmithKline has found that 61% of the South African population are overweight or morbidly obese. In addition to this survey, a study done by the Medical Research Council in 2007 found that 56% of adult women and 29% of adult men in South Africa were overweight or obese. Read more >>

Unions to picket at Wal-Mart/Massmart hearing

The Congress of SA Trade Unions' (Cosatu) and the SA Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) on Monday announced their intention to embark on "mass pickets" at the Wal-Mart-Massmart appeal hearing in Cape Town set for Thursday and Friday, 21 - 22 October 2011. Read more >>