Business Process enabling SA (BPeSA) Western Cape, an organisation that promotes contact centre and outsourcing, and the province’s department for finance, economic development & tourism have reached a deal with Internet Solutions
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The SA Revenue Service (Sars) has come out in strong defence of a new ad valorem duty on computer monitors, saying it’s meant to protect the television industry, despite strong opposition to the new tax. Sars spokesman Adrian Lackay says it is
Cell C grew its subscriber base by 12% to 8,2m at the end of 2010, SA’s third-largest cellular operator said on Thursday. It was also on track to turn its first net profit “quite soon”, said chairman and acting CEO Simon Duffy. Announcing Cell C’s
SA is getting a new, corporate-focused telecommunications operator and Internet service provider. The company, OnedotCom, which is part of the same group that is supporting the construction of a R1,2bn fibre-optic communications
Given global economic uncertainty, SA’s IT market has performed “remarkably well”, says research and consulting firm BMI-TechKnowledge. And if its research is correct, it will continue to do so, reaching almost R100bn in sales four years from now. The market
Implementation of “carrier pre-selection”, which will allow consumers to route a phone call over a network of their choice by adding an access code in front a dialled number, has been delayed until the end of November. The regulations are meant to help foster
Banking group Absa will soon overhaul its ATMs, adding a broad range of functionality to them, and launch mobile banking applications supporting a range of popular smartphone and tablet computer operating systems.It says this is part of its long-term goal of providing a
Online retail giant and Fortune 500 company Amazon is expanding its customer services and development team in Cape Town to create 600 permanent jobs by the end of the year and employ a further 400 temporary employees during peak periods. This adds to the 250
JSE-listed Altron’s IT subsidiary, Bytes Technology Group, has acquired UK-based IT security specialist Security Partnerships in an all-cash deal worth R72m. Security Partnerships provides IT security solutions and managed services
Delivering fibre to the home (FTTH) will become part of mainstream politics in SA, just like it has in Australia, predicts Steve Nola, who was until recently CEO of Dimension Data Australia. Nola, who has been named as head of Didata’s new cloud solutions business unit