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 | Pinnacle Holdings, the ICT Group, has launched a skills programme for its staff earlier this year. The skills programme aims to develop specific skills within Pinnacle Holdings' subsidiaries AxizWorkgroup and Pinnacle Africa. Read more >>
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 | Club Travel has selected Cornerstone Information Systems to provide the technology to support their goal to increase top line revenue, improve operational efficiency and staff productivity, and thus grow profitability. Read more >>
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 | Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, recently announced it has increased its presence in West Africa and opened an office in Ghana. Read more >>
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 | Consumers and business owners all over the world, but especially here in South Africa, have already been made aware that switching to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for their telecommunications needs can slash their phone bills significantly - in some instances by as much as 40%. Read more >>
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 | The shifts in the IT landscape triggered by the move to cloud computing came under the spotlight at the recent IDC CIO Summit, held in Sandton, Johannesburg. The summit explored some of the key challenges facing CIOs today. Read more >>
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 | Carey Van Vlaanderen Whilst we all go about our lives aware of external danger and ensuring the best security to keep such danger at bay, we can be apathetic about the threats that lurk online. Read more >>
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 | Matthew Savides South African internet users are advised to change their passwords on websites, and possibly even those used for their banks or financial institutions, after the discovery of the Heartbleed bug. Read more >>
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 | Customers must prevent criminals from hacking into their email accounts to obtain bank account information or issue illicit instructions to their banks‚ the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) has warned. Read more >>
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Big data has been named a game changer, a paradigm shifter, a cure-all and a must have for all businesses wishing to thrive. Harnessing big data to gain a competitive advantage is a must for today's organisations, but big data can be a threat too, as it is laden with legal, compliance and privacy issues. Read more >>
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 | Ruben Naicker Data volumes have increased exponentially and as consumers and businesses we generate vast volumes of information every day, all of which needs to be stored. With the growing popularity and decreasing price of flash drives and portable hard drives, not to mention the cloud, there are many options available for data storage besides the varieties of optical media, such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Read more >>
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 | Late last week saw the African Union Commission (AUC) launch the internet exchange point (IXP) in Swaziland which will contribute to bringing efficiency in the routing of intra-country internet traffic and more secure exchange of intra-country internet traffic. Read more >>
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 | Specialist online marketing research agency, Columinate, recently released its third annual 'Internet Banking SITEisfaction in South Africa' survey. Read more >>
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 | The fast-paced telecoms sector is one of the fastest growing industries in South Africa, but even so, we still lag behind the rest of the world in terms of internet penetration, speed and cost. Read more >>
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 | Native VML has released its March 2014 news on innovations and trends in the mobile and social media space. Read more >>
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 | Brian Timperley South African small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are warming up to working differently as they embrace the gradual move away from being secured to a physical desk. They're also allowing employees to use whatever devices they want and, secondly, ensuring that they're able to connect from anywhere. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Grapevine Communications Managed Print Services (MPS) continue to evolve in the marketplace and Lexmark remains a leader at the forefront of this change. For many years their mantra has been 'Print Less, Save More' as they have strived to unlock hidden savings in the enterprise for their customers. Read more >>
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 | ICASA asked the SABC and MultiChoice to provide a copy of the agreement but both parties have failed to honour that request, hence ICASA has turned to the Competition Commission. Read more >>
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 | Local cleaning and household materials manufacturer Reggae Chemicals has implemented Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 to help service a new wave of customers from outside of South Africa. AccTech Systems, a business solutions provider and Microsoft Dynamics ERP Partner of the Year 2013, has implemented the solution. Read more >>
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 | Peter Davidson There are many things to consider when buying a new laptop. It is worth making sure your new laptop has these programs before you buy it. Read more >>
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 | The Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University has said that IT businesses need to be aware of the implications of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, signed into law on 26 November 2013. Read more >>
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 | Splunk, provider of the software platform for real-time operational intelligence, announced that Clickatell, a global leader in mobile messaging and transaction services, has improved its customer service solutions with Splunk Enterprise. Read more >>
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 | Bobby Jordan Property developer Pierre Gerber thought he owned a share of a pristine Karoo koppie outside Ladismith in the Western Cape. Read more >>
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 | Gugu Lourie It seems Telkom's Chief Executive Sipho Maseko has let slip its turnaround strategy but the big question is whether it can work. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Telkom aims to cut R1bn in costs every year for the next five years as it restructures its business to revive its fortunes and unlock shareholder value‚ chief executive Sipho Maseko said. Read more >>
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 | Mike Brown In the past, your company may only have had to ensure the intranet, internet and email was operational, but now with a new and dynamic ICT world, you also have to cater for technologies such as: virtual private networks (VPNs), cloud computing, the running of comprehensive business systems, desktop applications, unified messaging and increased requirements for mobility. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Telkom has instructed its lawyers to write a letter to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) demanding clarity on its decision that the group's Chief Executive‚ Sipho Maseko‚ attend a corporate governance and director's duties course. Read more >>
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 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korean police said they had arrested a man for allegedly allowing his infant son to starve to death while spending days playing online games at Internet cafes. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Google has bought Titan Aerospace, a manufacturer of solar-powered drones that could be used to boost Internet access to remote areas. Read more >>
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sony has warned customers to stop using its new Vaio Fit 11A laptops because of an overheating battery problem that poses a fire risk. The company may recall the models. Read more >>
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 | ANKARA, TURKEY: Turkey's government said it would keep its block on YouTube in place despite two separate courts ordering the ban be lifted. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: Agence France-Presse has launched a new internet platform called "AFP Forum", which brings together its multimedia products in six languages for clients and is partly available to the general public. Read more >>
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 | LUXEMBOURG Europe's top court has struck down a European Union (EU) law forcing telecommunications operators to store private phone and email data for up to two years, judging this law was too invasive, despite its usefulness in combating terrorism. Read more >>
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 | OTTAWA, CANADA: Canada's tax agency shut its website on Wednesday (9 April) after warning that encrypted taxpayer data could be vulnerable to the "Heartbleed" bug. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: US computer giant Hewlett-Packard agreed to pay US$108m to settle investigations that it paid bribes to win public contracts in Russia, Poland and Mexico, officials said on Wednesday (9 April). Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: The top US film studios have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, shut down by US authorities as part of a criminal probe of online piracy. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Twitter began revamping profile pages on Tuesday (8 April) to let users display more of their online personalities, giving the popular service a Facebook-like feel. Read more >>
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