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 | Mark Beets DevOps has, in principle, been around for decades. In the early 1980s DevOps was a rudimentary end-to-end process; starting with punching holes into cards (representations of code and data), quality assuring their correctness, followed by physically transporting the cards to be fed into an IBM mainframe - all the while ensuring that nothing fell out or was blown away, thus breaking the programme and causing delays in delivery. Read more >>
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 | Effective teaching strategies are changing. Costs are rising and teachers' resources are being stretched, often pushing them into teaching subjects for which they are not properly equipped. Read more >>
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 | GfK, a global market research company, has developed a smartphone app that will deliver all these insights directly to you. Named Fundi, it'll deliver business and entrepreneurial content to thousands of small business owners across South Africa, for free. Read more >>
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 | Oliver Potgieter South African business is poised for a massive adoption of cloud computing, with some 75% of all applications set to be in the cloud within two years. That's thanks to the fact that the promises made by the IT industry for cloud ring true. Read more >>
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 | Kaspersky Lab has recently revealed its vision of enterprise security at the company's annual CyberSecurity Summit in San Francisco, US. The event focused on how enterprise IT security realities affected businesses worldwide and featured commentary and panel discussions from influential figures in IT security. Read more >>
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 | Data centres have become the heart of the modern enterprise, but managing the fast pace of data growth and the need for rapid future expansion has proved a challenging task. Furthermore, deploying a data centre in a new area has traditionally been a costly and time-consuming exercise. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON: US regulators proposed new restrictions on the US$2bn market in e-cigarettes, which until now have been free from federal regulation. Read more >>
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 | Since its acquisition of iWayAfrica and Africa Online, pan African telecoms operator, Gondwana International Networks has focused on the development of its terrestrial and satellite network products and solutions. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: French Economist Thomas Piketty's book on income inequality rose to the top of online retailer Amazon's best sellers. Read more >>
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 | Rob Lith The announcement by Telkom recently that it plans to replace almost 300 of its unprofitable copper-based exchanges with wireless 3G and LTE services is good news for the telecommunications industry. Read more >>
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 | Franny Rabkin Companies tendering to deliver important government services risk being forced to open their books and operational information to the public, after a landmark decision of the Constitutional Court last week. Read more >>
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 | Johan Scheepers There is no escaping the changing face of modern business. The traditional picture of a company located in an "easy to travel to" building where employees physically work alongside each other, in a fixed and networked computing environment, no longer rings true. Read more >>
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 | Near Field Communication (NFC) is rapidly transforming the way in which everyday tasks such as payments, gaining security access to buildings and even the purchasing and collection of concert tickets are performed. Read more >>
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 | Earlier this month, MTN SA demonstrated its high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) offering to residents of Monaghan Farm - an eco-friendly gated estate, located 30km north of Johannesburg. The commercial delivery of FTTH capable of 100Mbps is reportedly a first in Africa. Read more >>
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 | Despite the availability of Long-Term Evolution (LTE) in South Africa, Wi-Fi will remain the preferred form of connectivity for the foreseeable future according to Ruckus Wireless. Read more >>
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 | LONDON - Former News of the World Editor Andy Coulson admitted in court on Tuesday (22 April) to approving a payment to a royal policeman for information, despite warnings it could land him in jail. Read more >>
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 | Issued by BitCo The founders and Directors of BitCo have offered their network and vast experience in ICT to up-and-coming new market player Shycom in an exciting new partnership that is a key part of BitCo's entrepreneurial development strategy. Read more >>
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 | THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS: Troubled Dutch telecommunications company KPN posted a 98-percent plunge in first-quarter profits, blaming competition in the hotly-contested local mobile market. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Facebook launched FB Newswire, billed as an online trove of real-time information for journalists and newsrooms to mine while reporting on events or crafting stories. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Microsoft has been scrambling to repair a security hole in its widely used Internet Explorer web browser, saying it had detected attempts to exploit the flaw. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Apple courted investors with plans to split its stock as iPhone sales pushed up profits while underscoring pressure for the company to unveil "the next big thing." Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Facebook has bought the fitness app Moves, which helps users monitor daily physical activity and their calorie counts on a smartphone. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: WhatsApp now has 500m regular, active users around the world, the free mobile messaging service being acquired by Facebook said. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Amazon scored has struck a deal with HBO to distribute old shows from the premium cable TV channel to its Prime subscribers, landing a blow to rival Netflix in the streaming video battle. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google has added virtual time travel to its Internet offerings by letting them turn back the clock on Street View images to show how places have changed over the seven years it has been collecting pictures. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: New York police were eating extra helpings of humble pie after asking people to post images of themselves and NYPD officers on Twitter - only to face a deluge of pictures of alleged police brutality. Read more >>
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 | Samuel Mungadze Communications Minister Yunus Carrim says he is "reasonably satisfied" with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa's (Icasa) progress on reducing the cost to communicate since new mobile termination rates were introduced on 1 April. Read more >>
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iGroup, a leading digital solutions company, is seeking an experienced ecommerce project manager who is driven and capable of delivering clients projects to spec, achieving deadlines and to budget. Read more >>
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