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 | Recently, Make Games South Africa (MGSA), a local gaming industry organisation, released its SA Games Industry Survey 2013 results. read more>> |
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 | Three T-Systems interns, recruited from various tertiary education institutions as well as the ICT Academy, will be heading off to Darmstadt, in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, as part of the Konrad Reiss International Exchange Programme. read more>> |
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 | Issued by IT Conferences Join the CIO Conference on 29 and 30 October in Sandton, Johannesburg, for insights on BYOD, mobility, big data, enterprise security and POPI compliance... read more>> |
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 | Issued by BitCo The Mybroadband conference is renowned for showcasing the best of the ICT arena. BitCo, a leading internet and telephony supplier, is exhibiting at this year's conference and has pulled out all the stops... read more>> |
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 | Kalvin Subbadu Massive data growth and an increasing trend toward virtualisation technology are having a profound impact on the modern organisation. read more>> |
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 | Jos Floor Protecting customers' personal information against loss or damage is just as important for companies considering the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act as protecting it against theft and unauthorised access. read more>> |
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 | It was recently reported that approximately five million account credentials were published that have a Gmail address as the user name. read more>> |
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 | John Mc Loughlin One of our clients recently ousted one of its most trusted employees, who had been using the company's clients, intellectual property and contacts to run his own business, in direct competition with his current employer. read more>> |
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 | As per the latest Effective Measure results, there are only three websites that have managed to crack the 2 million unique monthly visits mark. read more>> |
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 | LexisNexis South Africa has introduced wi-fi technology at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. read more>> |
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 | Donvay Wegierski Brand owners are reminded that holders of validated trade marks can take advantage of the priority phase in each generic top level domain (gTLD) launch. read more>> |
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 | A new e-discovery platform has been brought to SA by data-processing company LexTrado. It will dramatically reduce costs and save time for all parties in legal proceedings. read more>> |
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 | Frederic Guillou In emerging markets, mobile money services have the power to simplify lives and transform them by addressing the unbanked or underserved population in Africa. read more>> |
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 | Ignite, the online ICT platform for small and medium businesses, powered by pan-African telecommunications provider Internet Solutions (IS), has announced the launch of its new Cloud Accounting service that is targeted at small and medium accounting firms and small to medium sized businesses (SMEs). read more>> |
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 | Infor, a provider of business application software, has announced Infor Dynamic Science Labs, a new internal organisation focused on infusing machine-learning and big data analytics into Infor applications, making them fast, smart, scalable and elegant. read more>> |
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 | "South African tech companies have all the skills and experience to hold their own against the best on the international stage. Traditionally, we have been held back by a pervasive mindset that we simply don't match up to the global players; however this is changing fast and the growing confidence of local IT service providers is setting us up for great things in future." read more>> |
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 | Mitchell Barker "Please note that this call may be recorded..." That message is all too familiar to anyone who has ever called a business before. read more>> |
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 | 71% of business leaders are confident they can transition from a state of digital transformation to digital maturity in just five years, according to the latest research from Coleman Parkes, commissioned by Ricoh Europe. read more>> |
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 | Samuel Mungadze Major telecommunications company MTN has dramatically increased its borrowing ability‚ fuelling analysts' speculation that an acquisition may be on the cards. read more>> |
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 | Marc Fletcher As smartphone adoption in South Africa continues to accelerate beyond all expectation, enterprises are increasingly focussing on how to capitalise on a 'mobile enabled' workforce. read more>> |
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 | BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt, whose own firm is embroiled in an anti-trust probe by the European Union urged the bloc to give innovators free rein to deliver the huge economic gains promised by the digital era. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Apple broke its sales record for an opening weekend delivering 10m iPhone 6 unites in the first three days and boasting it could have sold more if it had them. read more>> |
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 | JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: Israel's secretive overseas spy agency, the Mossad, launched a new website to recruit potential spies, as well as an espionage thriller-type video hoping to hook new talent. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO - Tycoon yachtsman Larry Ellison has stepped down as Oracle's Chief Executive, trusting a pair of lieutenants to steer the business software firm he helped launch decades ago. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Samsung announced that its eagerly-anticipated Note 4 "phablet" will be released on 17 October. read more>> |
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Buyers from China, deprived of the latest iPhone launch at home, were among the first in line in Japan to grab the iPhone 6. read more>> |
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 | WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND: Internet mogul Kim Dotcom confessed his brand was "poison" after his aspirations of bringing down the New Zealand government were overwhelmingly shunned in Saturday's (20 September) election. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Online piracy of music, films and other content has moved to the internet cloud, reaping big profits for digital thieves, according to a study released earlier this week. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: The aerospace company Blue Origin has struck a deal to build a US-made rocket engine that aims to eliminate reliance on Russian engines for American satellite launches. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Apple is rolling-out new privacy protection for iPhones and iPads, with a system that makes it impossible for the company to unlock a device even with a warrant. read more>> |
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sony has said the company will lose at least $2.14bn this fiscal year, more than four-times its earlier forecast and blamed a downturn in its mobile phone business for the losses. read more>> |
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 | BERLIN, GERMANY: German pay-TV channel Sky Deutschland's management and supervisory board recommended that shareholders reject a purchase offer by Britain's satellite TV group BSkyB. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Online ratings operator Yelp agreed to pay $450,000 to settle US charges that it illegally collected data on children, in violation of privacy laws, officials have said. read more>> |
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 | MADRID, SPAIN: French group Orange launched on Tueday, 16 September, a bid to extend its reach in a Europe-wide telecom turf war with an offer for Spanish fixed-line operator Jazztel. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: The internet is no longer draining profits from media and entertainment companies, which have learned to make online services pay, a new study shows. read more>> |
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 | LONDON, UK: British mobile phone retailer Phones 4U has collapsed into administration, putting more than 5,500 jobs at risk, the group said. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google has launched a $105 smartphone in India, taking aim at emerging markets as part of an initiative called Android One. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Apple said it had received record pre-orders for its new iPhone models, and that some customers will have to wait for the larger-screen versions of the smartphones. read more>> |
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 | Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says the Council of Education Ministers (CEM) will push for the stronger use of ICT to radically transform basic education. read more>> |
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iGroup Create is seeking an experienced project lead who is driven and capable of delivering clients projects to spec, achieving deadlines and to budget. Read more >>
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The CIO Challenge - 29 Oct 2014 to 30 Oct 2014 Johannesburg The CIO Challenge: 29 and 30 Oct 2014, Sandton, JHB. Covering: BYOD, Mobility, Big Data, Enterprise Security and POPI compliance.
Thank you to our Sponsors: Konica Minolta, CommVault and Soarsoft Read more >> |
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