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 | Microsoft has highlighted how businesses are differentiating themselves in the market with dynamics technology during the opening keynote address of the company's Dynamics Africa 2014 conference. Read more >>
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 | The annual Sage Insights 2014 Conference is taking place from 6 to 9 February 2014, at the Champagne Sports Resort in the Drakensberg. Read more >>
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Sharon Snell There is an acute scarcity of the highly skilled professionals that are needed by the country to manage the very real cybercrime threats that face South Africa. Read more >>
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 | The ability to work remotely via mobile communication is a necessary requirement for conducting business in South Africa, especially for SMEs. The challenge, therefore, for small business owners, is to ensure their employees' ability to be mobile, while managing the costs thereof. Read more >>
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 | Based on its recent research on the big data solutions market, Frost & Sullivan has presented IBM with the 2014 sub-Saharan African Frost & Sullivan Award for Competitive Strategy Leadership. Read more >>
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 | Hisense hosted its annual Golf Day at the Milnerton Golf Club on Friday, 7 February 2014, in celebration of the Chinese New Year. The event consisted of an entertaining day spent on the course, followed by a grand dinner and prize giving ceremony. All golf delegates registered on arrival, and thereafter fell part of a jam packed day of the popular sport. Read more >>
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 | Zeenat Moorad Shares in niche logistics group OneLogix jumped as much as 22.8% to an intraday high of R3.50 on Thursday (6 February 2014)‚ after the group reported revenue and operating profit were up more than 33% for the six months to November. Read more >>
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 | So you want to launch yourself into a career in digital this year... so how are you going to do it, and what do you need to achieve your ambition? Read more >>
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 | Samuel Mungadze SA's software market will balloon this year as spending is forecast to increase 10.5% to US$518m (R5.7bn)‚ according to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) market analysis report. Read more >>
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 | Chris Moerdyk At the risk of being utterly boring once again banging on about the SABC, I feel as though some sort of bizarre sense of duty requires me to comment on the completely predictable findings of a PriceWaterhouseCoopers audit on the national broadcaster... Read more >>
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 | Vodacom has posted a 12.3% increase in active customers to 56.0m in the December quarter from a year earlier‚ with active data customers growing by 27.9% to 23.7m. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Activist investor Carl Icahn said on Monday, 10 February, he would no longer press Apple to boost its share buyback plan after a proxy advisory firm recommended against his proposal. Read more >>
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 | HANOI - The Vietnamese developer behind the smash-hit free game Flappy Bird has pulled his creation from online stores after announcing that its runaway success had ruined his "simple life". Read more >>
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 | TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Taiwan's smartphone manufacturer HTC said it signed a patent and technology collaboration agreement with Finnish phone company Nokia to end all pending patent litigation between them. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Amazon has yanked gibberish translations of classic works from the shelves of its online ebooks store. Read more >>
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 | HONG KONG: Google bought a 5.94% stake in Lenovo for US$750m having sold Motorola to the Chinese technology company. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Twitter shares took a nosedive last week after the company's first earnings report shook up investors expecting strong growth at the messaging platform. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: Alcatel-Lucent, a leading global supplier of telecommunications equipment for the internet, said it had slashed its net losses by a third last year and would sell its subsidiary Enterprise to a Chinese firm Read more >>
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sony warned it would record a US$1.08bn annual loss and cut 5,000 jobs while exiting the stagnant PC market this year as the once-mighty electronics company struggles to reinvent itself in the digital age. Read more >>
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 | MANILA, PHILLIPINES: Young Filipinos are becoming more sexually adventurous as the traditionally powerful Roman Catholic Church loses its influence on the internet and smart phones, according to a study released on Thursday (6 February). Read more >>
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 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Turkey's new Internet law raises "serious concerns" over government control and the public's access to information, the European Commission said on Thursday (6 February). Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: WAN-IFRA, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, has announced the call for entries for the annual European Digital Media Awards. Read more >>
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 | Naseem Javed TORONTO, CANADA: Since the invention of the internet, suddenly the phrase 'dot com' became the single most powerful word of the century... Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Microsoft's mission to find new glory in the mobile Internet age is now in the hands of long-time company insider Satya Nadella. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Microsoft said that founder Bill Gates was stepping down as chairman to become a technology adviser to the technology company and that Indian-born Satya Nadella would be Microsoft's new chief executive officer. Read more >>
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN - Japan's Panasonic and Sharp on Tuesday, 4 February, pointed to better times ahead as earnings improved thanks to an overhaul of their businesses and the yen's decline, but the recovery was held back by weak sales of consumer gadgets. Read more >>
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 | OTTAWA, CANADA: A Canadian whose brain-dead pregnant wife is being kept on life support until the birth of their baby is giving the public a glimpse of his very personal tragedy. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) will this weekend open their 22,263 voting stations for a final registration drive which it hopes will attract 1.1m people. Read more >>
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 | PRETORIA: Efforts by the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) to clamp down on social grant fraud are yielding positive results, with the agency saving R150m a year. Read more >>
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More Government news
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MyBroadband, the largest IT website in South Africa, is looking for a marketing assistant. We offer a great working environment in a growing and exciting industry. Read more >>
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