September 2011 Blog Posts (23)

AITEC Africa has assembled an impressive group of over 40 local and international speakers to make presentations at this year’s ICT Congress. With the theme this year of “Building on local skills and capacity to develop effective ICT solutions that address local needs”, the congress aims to showcase successful computing and communications projects and organizations in the country. The Congress will take place at Joaquim Chissano International Conference Centre over 5-6…

Countrywide, 1224 entries were submitted for the tenth annual Awards this year, a 33% increase in entries from last year. The Awards have grown from strength to strength over the last decade. 

The Western region had the most entries from the five regions in the print feature category…

Ideco Biometric Security Solutions (Ideco), provider of solutions, services and support within the field of identity management, will sponsor this year's ITWeb IDentity Indaba on 01 November at The Forum, Bryanston.

The Indaba is an annual event spearheaded by Ideco. This year ITWeb has partnered with Ideco to offer a forum for businesses and service providers to discuss issues that affect identities and the protection of resources in commerce. Issues to be covered include the need to…

The LTS-300 is an advanced Vehicle, Goods, & Personnel (Human) Location Tracking System, Using the power of GPS + GPRS Transmission + Cloud Monitoring Platform Via Satellite Transmission now available to individual as well as corporate bodies, Government Agencies, Radio/Television all print Media and Educational Institutions.

When installed in any vehicle, the owner can easily monitor the where about of the vehicle from anywhere at any time within the country and the neighboring…

Peopleplus a division of Talenger Holdings (Pty) Limited has launched the first FREEMIUM HR and Payroll software model in South Africa. Peopleplus is providing small to medium sized business access to our proven big business HR and Payroll software – FREE OF CHARGE.

The Peopleplus HR and Payroll software is based on the highly successful Talenger enterprise system which is utilised by major corporates in various industry sectors in South Africa and internationally.…

Eaton Towers, the African tower ownership and management company, has secured a major round of equity funding worth $150m from Capital International Private Equity Funds ("CIPEF"), a private equity investor that focuses on emerging markets.



The funding will be used to acquire, build and develop telecom towers across Africa for both existing and new projects.



CIPEF is a highly experienced and long established emerging markets private equity investor. Since inception in 1992,…

Avnet Technology Solutions, an IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today named Henry Godwin as regional director for the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Godwin will be responsible for the strategic direction of Avnet Technology Solutions in the region. Godwin will report to Graeme Watt, President of Avnet Technology Solutions,…

On 12 September, Vodacom announced a series of steps to improve the customer experience by increasing network capacity and reducing congestion.

An increase in complaints from BlackBerry users in recent months had been investigated, and it was found that the service was being negatively affected by a very small number of customers downloading vast amounts of data. 

The BlackBerry service was designed to enable customers to use a BlackBerry smartphone for internet browsing as…

The Polytechnic of Namibia has about 12,500 registered students. About 8,000 are based at its central campus in Windhoek and a further 3,500 are distance learners with access to 10 regional centres around Namibia.

The Polytechnic has mapped out an ambitious e-learning project that aims to make all its lectures and classes available online. The project began by supplying all staff with laptops, and 60% of students are due to have laptops by 2013. Meanwhile, all teaching venues are…

Vodacom is once again partnering with the Smile Foundation to facilitate operations on 42 children with facial reconstruction surgery at the Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein this week.

Cleft lip and palate are amongst the most common birth defects and it is estimated that one in 700 children are born with this condition. In South Africa, children with this condition and their families are often stigmatised by the…

Nothing inspires players more than a nation's backing, and the Vodacom Shosholoza Bokke campaign has sent the Springboks to New Zealand confident that they have an entire country supporting them.

Since it launched on June 11, the innovative campaign has revealed unprecedented fan support for the Springboks as celebrities and fans showed their passion for the national team. More than 2000 unique creative video file uploads of fans singing the popular anthem flooded in from the…

The mobile Drifta receives the DStv mobile broadcast signal known as Digital Video Broadcast Hand-held or DVB-H, and relays this signal over Wi-Fi to a range of Wi-Fi capable devices.

Country Manager of DStv Mobile Ghana, Edward Kwame Owusu, said they are proud to be on the…

IRSF incidents were increasing from below 10 to over 20 incidents per month and…

This presentation is based on a presentation I made at the Telecoms World Africa conference in Cape Town a few months back.

http://www.slideshare.net/zwanaunicom/telco-data-networks-in-africa-enablers-of-value-added-services-or-just-cheap-access-to-ott-providers

As distributor for CommuniGate Systems and its…

Social media has moved incredibly quickly from a specialist tool to a must-have channel of engagement with customers.  Building on the unique one on one conversation that social media makes possible, Vodacom has increased the number of people working in its specialist dedicated customer care team and increased their hours of operation.  The customer care team are now live on Twitter (@vodacom111) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/Vodacom) from 7am…

By Robert Sussman, joint CEO, Integr8

The increase in application of unified communication locally and internationally reminds us that we are firmly on track towards a truly connected world.

Centralising voice, video and data onto a single platform and the ability to access all communication feeds…

Edge-Core Networks, through its South African distribution partner, Miro Distribution, has readied two Desktop Fast Ethernet PoE switch solutions for release into the local market.

The Edge-Core ES3528MF-PoE and ES3528M-PoE are fast Ethernet layer 2 standalone switches that are designed to facilitate Ethernet connectivity to the desktop.

These solutions have also been developed to power devices such as VoIP phones, wireless access points and IP…