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South Africa pushes for ICT outsourcing
News South Africa is pushing to become the destination of choice for business process outsourcing, citing major investment in technical training as a spur for investment. A delegation from the country, including deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka...
[December 11, 2006, 15:45]
South Africa compares digital divide to apartheid
News The effect of the lack of IT equipment and skills in developing countries has been likened by South Africa's high commissioner to the inequality that existed in the country under the apartheid system.
[April 25, 2008, 11:39]
South Africa embraces open source
News Joining a lengthening list of governments, South Africa has adopted an official policy promoting the use of open-source software -- but stopped short of jettisoning proprietary applications. Behind the comparatively moderate policy lie serious...
[February 5, 2003, 10:10]
MTN South Africa Gains Efficiency With Single Instance
White Papers MTN South Africa is the country's second-largest cellular network operator with 10.5 million subscribers. The company's lack of a consolidated single instance of Oracle Financials and Oracle Human Resources applications prevented the automation of...
[December 23, 2006, 0:00]
Wholesale Branch of South Africa's Largest Bank Moves Successfully From Homegrown EPM System to Halogen
White Papers Standard Bank Group is a global bank and South Africa's largest bank, distinguished by its extensive operations in 17 African countries. To support overall objectives related to performance management, the Bank moved from a paper-based process over...
[March 8, 2009, 23:00]
Towards a Framework for Determining a Platform for Teaching Web Application Development in Tertiary Institutions in South Africa
White Papers This paper develops and applies a conceptual framework that can be used to evaluate dynamic Web platforms in order to determine a platform for teaching Web application development in tertiary institutions.
[July 6, 2007, 1:00]
South Africa's Coffee Houses Set to Go Wireless in Seattle
White Papers Originated in the USA, the international Seattle Coffee Company organisation was taken over by Starbucks in 2003. Retaining the original brand name, Seattle Coffee Company now has 23 outlets. Seattle Coffee Company needed reliable hardware so that...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Wholesale Branch of South Africa's Largest Bank Moves Successfully From Homegrown Appraisal System to Halogen
White Papers Standard Bank Group is a global bank with African roots. The Bank wanted the new solution to mirror the format of the old performance appraisal process, which included past objectives and its own set of competencies.
[March 28, 2008, 0:02]
OOXML ratification faces delay after objection
News South Africa's standards body has a sizeable list of objections to the process through which OOXML received official ISO approval. In conclusion, South Africa challenges the validity of a final vote that we contend was based upon inadequate...
[May 27, 2008, 13:54]
New HP ITSM Software Supports Business Change at South African Telecommunications Giant
White Papers Vodacom South Africa wanted a more sophisticated, service-orientated tool to manage incident and change more effectively to stay abreast of the growing maturation levels of their mobile network business and ensure that it is able to meet the...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
South African TV show evangelises open source
News The first in a 13-part series of television shows to promote open-source software was broadcast in South Africa on Saturday. The show is sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation, Hewlett-Packard South Africa, African research institution CSIR and...
[November 24, 2004, 14:20]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
News Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian email and letter fraud. According to a statement from the South Africa police, officers from the UK's Scotland Yard are involved in the...
[May 21, 2002, 14:13]
XP Starter Edition reaches Africa
News Microsoft plans to make Windows XP Starter Edition available in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Nigeria from the summer. While Microsoft has only just released one African language pack, non-profit organisation Translate.org.za has translated...
[May 5, 2006, 12:15]
HP reveals global ambitions for ProCurve
News ProCurve, HP's networking infrastructure division, plans to invest and grow in Russia, the Middle East, and South Africa, and hopes to take 25 percent market share around the world by the end of 2006.
[February 9, 2006, 14:30]
Tech firms named in apartheid lawsuit
News Fujitsu and Unisys are expected to be named this week in a lawsuit targeting companies that allegedly profited from collaborating with apartheid-era South Africa. The companies "notoriously violated" United Nations sanctions from 1985 to 1993 by...
[August 19, 2002, 12:33]
702 Talk Radio Streamer
Downloads This will simply and elegantly play (stream) the 702 talk radio live stream directly from South Africa. Talk Radio is based in Joburg (South Africa). The 702 Talk Radio Streamer is based on the popular 5FM Streamer.
[July 9, 2007, 12:22]
Mathematicians Meet the Market: Graduates Studying Risk Management Are in Demand
White Papers By contrast, the Centre for Business Mathematics and Informatics of North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa can offer its students a range of exciting opportunities in the world of business.
[June 14, 2006, 0:00]
Vodafone denies responsibility for stolen SIM bill
News Stephen Tracey told ZDNet UK he received the bill after his SIM card went missing in South Africa. Obviously we've taken it on trust that all the calls made in South Africa were made fraudulently," she said.
[May 24, 2006, 16:30]
OpenOffice gets the Zulu touch
News The new versions of OpenOffice have been prepared by Translate.org.za, a not-for-profit organisation that hopes to make open-source software available in the 11 official languages of South Africa. Dwayne Bailey, director of Translate.org.za, said...
[August 27, 2004, 13:00]
Blair opens up Commission for Africa online
Talkback South Africa is trying to get away from the begging bowl into the ‘teach a man to fish’ syndrome – but it will fail if bureaucrats are the decision-makers for economic return skills training. South Africa is the role model of Africa – but...
[November 27, 2004, 12:14]
