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 | T-Systems in South Africa is empowering the community of Emalahleni, near Witbank, Mpumalanga, with the donation of 38 laptops including software, accessories and training, to 19 local Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Read more >>
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 | Doros Hadjizenonos The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act was signed into law last year. It places strict onuses on businesses when it comes to handling personal information about their clients, staff and customers. Read more >>
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Japan's Toshiba has slapped South Korean rival SK Hynix with a lawsuit seeking damages claiming that it received sensitive trade secrets from a Japanese engineer. Read more >>
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 | When the web was in its infancy, spam was a minor annoyance and not much more. However, as with all other aspects of the web, spam has evolved into something far more dangerous that is costing business enormously, in terms of bandwidth, productivity and down time. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko MTN Business‚ is set to open more data centres in key markets where it operates as it rolls out its cloud services and video-conferencing to more markets. Read more >>
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 | HANOVER, GERMANY: Britain and Germany will team up to work on developing the next super-fast mobile network, 5G, Prime Minister David Cameron told the opening of the world's biggest high-technology fair. Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: With three young children and a full-time job, Emma Martini has little time for computer games. But every night she sits quietly at the end of her son's bed to reassure him while he falls asleep - and she plays Candy Crush. Read more >>
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced a huge hacker offensive last month, coming under some 150,000 denial-of-service attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said over the weekend. Read more >>
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 | Dimension Data has contributed R100,000 towards an initiative set up by the City of Johannesburg to recognise and reward the achievements of the top matriculant at 20 of the city's highest achieving township schools. Read more >>
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 | A new trend is emerging in the ADSL arena, every second Internet Service Provider (ISP) is claiming to offer the fastest, most affordable ADSL. Some of these dubious ISPs even promise clients unshaped ADSL for a couple of hundred rand. Read more >>
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 | Pay as you sneer as MTN tries to cow Cell C. Read more >>
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 | Adrian Hope-Bailie There's a new kid on the block in the payments environment that promises to deliver even greater convenience and practicality. It's called Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE, and it's based on technology that is over a decade old. Read more >>
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 | Interactive Intelligence Group Inc., a global provider of software and services designed to improve the customer experience, is launching a Customer Experience Makeover: Contact Centre Style contest. Read more >>
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 | 2014 will be far less about new technologies and much more about how existing technologies and trends are going to change the workplace and our social lives. That's the word from Richard Firth, serial entrepreneur and CEO of MIP Holdings. Read more >>
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 | SHANGHAI, CHINA: When condom maker Durex wants to send an intimate message to customers in China, it uses a homegrown instant messaging platform called WeChat, which has taken the country by storm in just three years. Read more >>
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 | Deidre Jonker, Issued by BitCo Telecoms news around the country has been buzzing about the Mobile Termination Rates (MTR) debate. We wanted to simplify the facts for you, allowing you to know how this affects your bill in the end. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: SoftBank, eyeing a tie-up of its US wireless unit Sprint with T-Mobile, stepped up its campaign on Tuesday, claiming it could boost competition for Americans as it did in Japan. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: Measuring performance, providing a soundtrack and giving real-time information about the slopes: the latest ski masks are revolutionising skiing, but can they crossover into the mainstream, or will they remain stuck with a niche market of rich geeks? Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: Vodafone has agreed to buy Spanish cable firm Ono as the British mobile phone company stepped up its expansion in Europe using the proceeds from the sale of its US joint venture stake. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: French consortium Vivendi said it was entering exclusive negotiations with Numericable to sell the cable operator its telecommunications unit SFR, shrugging aside France's industrial renewal minister's bid to scupper the cable operator's bid. Read more >>
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 | MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Experts from G-Data and BAE Systems recently released information about a persistent cyber espionage operation codenamed Turla (also referred to as Snake or Uroburos). Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: - The Japanese owner of US mobile carrier Sprint said on Monday, 10 March, that he wanted to launch a "price war" with the two major carriers as he seeks to acquire T-Mobile's US unit. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: A senior US senator accused the Central Intelligence Agency of illegally searching computers of Senate staff members who were investigating a CIA interrogation programme. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: 25 years ago, the World Wide Web was just an idea in a technical paper from an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab. Read more >>
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A fast-paced digital marketing agency in the Cape Town Southern Suburbs seeks a .Net developer with two to five years of experience to assist with the development of key projects. Read more >>A fast-paced digital marketing agency in the Southern Suburbs seeks a front-end HTML developer with one+ years of experience to assist with the development of key projects. Read more >>
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Data capturer courseCentre for Statistical Analysis and Research-CESAR - 7 Apr 2014 to 11 Apr 2014 Braamfontein |
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 Don't miss CEW Johannesburg 2014 for the opportunity to hear about the latest in customer experience, share your story and learn from peers. Read more >> |
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