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- Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote
- Brazil, India and South Africa have filed appeals to the ISO/IEC approval of Microsoft's OOXML. At the Standards Blog, Andy Updegrove outlines some of the issues: Brazil's objections fall under two main headings, the second of which was also raised by South Africa. That...
- Tags: Brazil, Appeal, South Africa, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooks
- Few details are available yet, but Mark Shuttleworth revealed in an interview with the Guardian that a version of Ubuntu customized for the netbook market would be released in early June. Unfortunately, details are scarce; here's the line from the interview: [The Guardian]: Will you be...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, Jason Matusow, Operating System, South Africa, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Globalization's discontents
- I'm back from Africa, and what a trip it has been. Ghana was certainly a marked contrast to Zimbabwe. You would never mistake Ghana for a rich country, though compared to Zimbabwe, it is positively affluent. People are poor, but the roads are filled with cars, the stores are filled...
- Tags: Immigrant, Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Globalization, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- We could live a long time without gold, but NOT this more precious metal
- I'm talking platinum. As in catalytic converters. Cars, trucks, earth movers, fork-lifts, nearly every internal combustion engine made in the past thirty years has a catalytic converter. Most contain platinum and rhodium as catalysts. Right now there's a platinum shortage. That's a global shortage, but...
- Tags: Shortage, South Africa, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Proposed solar plant not worth its salt?
- Parts of Africa have an abundance of solar energy. Remember that NOAA gobalmap we showed you? It clearly shows that some of that blazing sun reaches into South Africa. So it seems like a plan to put a huge, world's largest they claim, solar-powered generating...
- Tags: South Africa, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- Establishment of a Catchment Monitoring Network Through a Participatory Approach in a Small Rural Catchment in South Africa
- The establishment of a catchment monitoring network is a process, from the inception of the idea to its implementation, the latter being the construction of relevant gauging structures and installation of the various instruments. It is useful that the local communities and other stakeholders are involved and participate in such...
- Tags: Monitoring, South Africa, Establishment
- White papers 2007-10-16
- South Africa 2010 - Countdown (gg)
- Countdown for the Fifa World Cup 2010 - South Africa. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: FIFA, South Africa, World Cup
- Software downloads 2007-09-10
- 702 Talk Radio Streamer (zip)
- The 702 Talk Radio Streamer is based on the popular 5FM Streamer. This will simply and elegantly play stream the 702 talk radio live stream directly from South Africa. 702 Talk Radio is based in Joburg South Africa. 702 Talk Radio Streamer requires Windows Media Player. This version is the...
- Tags: Radio, South Africa, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Software downloads 2007-07-09
- Networking Skills in South Africa: Will an Increasing Shortage Hinder Growth?
- This white paper, based on primary and secondary research including data surveys of CIO-level respondents in South Africa and IDC's proprietary IT skills model, shows that organizations face an increasing shortage of people with networking skills. Demand for networking skills still outstrips supply and is accentuated by high economic growth...
- Tags: Network, South Africa, International Data Group, Networking Skill, Networking, Wireless
- White papers 2006-05-01
- South African Job Skills Agency Registers Gains of 82 Percent More Employers With Online Solution
- South Africa's Policing, Security, Legal, Justice, and Correctional Services SETA SASSETA was founded in 2000 to facilitate and promote workplace skills development across South Africa. It initially lacked an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system to manage its activities and deliver services to customers. SASSETA implemented a Web-based ERP system based...
- Tags: Solution, Agency, South Africa, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows 2000, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Operating Systems, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Wireless Communication for Previously Disadvantaged Secondary Schools in Grahamstown, South Africa
- With an alarmingly low teledensity in South Africa, less than 5% in some rural areas, and not much hope of further wired infrastructure, as the costs incurred are high compared to potential revenue, wireless connectivity could be a great asset and service in South Africa. This paper looks at how...
- Tags: Rhodes University, Wireless Communication, South Africa, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-08-08
- Scientific Management Meets Information Technology: Uses and Abuses of Call Centre Technology in South Africa
- This paper is concerned with the quality of work life issues that flow from the management of call centre enterprises in South Africa, and the challenge of matching management style, needed staff skills and technological determinism in management practice. There is often a mismatch between the qualities needed in call...
- Tags: Information Technology, Management Practice, South Africa, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-07-12
- Fiscal Policy Design in South Africa: An Intertemporal CGE Model With Perfect Foresight
- The purpose of the study presented in this paper is to explore the welfare and poverty consequences of trade policy reforms in South Africa. In analyzing trade policy, the study makes use of two types of experiments. In the first experiment, it explores the impact of an across-the-board tariff removal....
- Tags: Experiment, South Africa, Tariff, Free Trade, Finance
- White papers 2005-06-13
- Providing Fast, Cost-Effective Criminal Case Management
- The judicial authority of South Africa is vested in the courts. The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development supplies adequate resources for the proper and efficient functioning of the criminal and civil justice systems. The Justice Department in South Africa wanted to use technology to improve the efficiency of the...
- Tags: Audit, Case Management, South Africa, U.S. Department Of Justice, EMC Corp., Documentum, Storage, Financial Accounting, Hardware, Finance
- Case studies
- Compliance Strategy Review and Type Approval for South Africa
- The client is a large Electronic Engineering Company. The client contacted BABT and requested TUV's assistance with identifying how to enter their Wireless LAN product onto the South African market. BABT completed a Compliance Strategy Review, which described in detail how to obtain approval and gain entry into the South...
- Tags: Compliance, WLAN, South Africa, Client, Approval, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- Case studies
- A South African Renaissance
- In South Africa, awareness of the imminent IT skills crisis is high. It was with both the awareness of this crisis and socioeconomic objectives in mind that the South African government established the Institute of Space/Software Applications ISSA in 1998. Following his degree in computer science, Charmaine Dube was interested...
- Tags: Information Technology, South Africa, Cisco Systems Inc., Charmaine Dube, Strategy, Government, Management
- Case studies
- The Department of Home Affairs in South Africa Is Preventing Identity Fraud
- South Africa's Department of Home Affairs is responsible for the central registry of all citizens and permanent residents, maintaining their birth, death, marriage and related records - no small task in a country with 43 million citizens. The fact that South Africa's government and private sector each lose approximately U.S....
- Tags: Identity Fraud, Unisys Corp., South Africa, Government, Vertical Industries, Litigation, Sales Channel, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Sales
- Case studies
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- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a little
- Forrester: Vista is 'New Coke' in the enterprise; Firefox, Apple gain a littleNew Coke?Actually, given the way it has been and is being sold, is it not the New Kool-Aid?With Vista selling so well already ...... as shown in revenues from the previous quarter, Microsoft can expect to gain substantially...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Forrester Research Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Mac OS X, Mendel, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Bausch & Lomb puts new CIO in charge of customer service
- Eye care company Bausch & Lomb has given its CIO the customer service reins. On Wednesday, the company named Alan Farnsworth, senior vice president of customer service and information technology and chief information officer. Cutting through the rather bloated title, it appears that Bausch & Lomb has...
- Tags: Customer Service, CIO, Bausch & Lomb Inc., Information Technology, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Kundli for Windows Pro (zip)
- Kundli for windows, kundli 5.5, latest kundli version, vedic indian astrology, professional horoscope reports, planet position, shodash varga, ashtakvarga, match making, guna dosh milan, manglik consideration, 120 year varshphal, hindi, english language, export reports to pdf, jpeg, bmp and email them. User friendly, Most Accurate Calculations, Screen Preview, Storage of...
- Tags: Phone, Version, Y2K, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Databases, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
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