Customer Relationship Management is a sure fire way to maintain customer interest in your brand, product, service or organisation. It’s simply more expensive to recruit new customers than it is to grow or...

TechRepublic

For many years, the Internet was the “final frontier,” operating largely unregulated — in part because of the jurisdictional nightmare involved in trying to enforce laws when communications crossed not just state lines but also national boundaries. That was then; this is now.

Mircosoft

Windows is without a doubt the most attacked platform worldwide, an inherent detail associated with its ubiquity.

Because it is able to centralize data from such a vast pool of end users, Microsoft...

Bathandwa Mbola

Johannesburg -The newly inaugurated e-Skills Academy of South Africa will increase the country’s Information Communication Technology (ICT) systems and increase the public’s awareness in the area.

AfrolNews

afrol News, 7 March - A technology roadshow is taking place in the Namibian capital Windhoek on Friday. Organised by information technology distributor [Comztek Namibia] and its vendor partners, the show entails several activities, including a technology showcase and presentations.

A new breed of image-manager is emerging in the United States to take on the masked and hooded cybermobs who, bolstered by anonymity and weak laws, launch damaging attacks on other web users.

Sophos

The latest scam found by security firm Sophos takes advantage
of the good name aid agency Oxfam has built throughout the years by its actions and tells the recipients of the email that they’ve won a lottery run by the company. "Oxfam Grant/Donation Award 2008!!!!!!!," is the subject line of the message being sent.

Throughout 2007, it became painfully clear to Microsoft that the main competitor for Windows Vista was not Apple's Mac OS X or even the open source Linux operating system but Windows XP, and, in fact,...

MSNBC

BOSTON - In the 50 years since satellites first went into orbit, the readings they've provided have given science a huge boost.

New era

Mobile Telecommunications Ltd (MTC) yesterday pledged N$20 000 and 500,000 Mbps towards the Xnet Development Alliance for International Communication Technology (ICT) projects.

Officially handing over...

Shaun Benton

Cape Town – The construction of an undersea fibre-optic cable that will land in South Africa is expected to commence in the first half of this year, said the Minister of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.

Michael Appel

Parliament – Reducing the cost of doing business in South Africa received a leg up on Friday, with President Thabo Mbeki’s announcement that state-owned broadband supplier, Sentech, will become a wireless internet provider following an injection of funds.

An innovative touch screen whiteboard, on which teachers can save lessons on disk, is leading the way towards how classrooms of the future may integrate technology into teaching, writes Bathandwa Mbola.

Gabi Khumalo

Johannesburg – South Africa’s leading developer of multilingual software, Translate.org.za, has been recognised by the Pan South African Language Board, for its ground breaking work in this field.

Gabi Khumalo

Johannesburg - Government departments are set to have a speedier and higher quality communication infrastructure with the introduction of the R454 million Next Generation Network (NGN).

Shaun Benton

“Time is on South Africa's side” in its bid to host the giant Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope project that is expected to cost over one billion Euros, writes Shaun Benton.

CES/PR

CES 2008 Highlights:

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the most important event of the year for hardware manufacturers, who tend to save the major product announcements for the show; previous releases at CES have included landmark products such as DVD, HDTV, and the Xbox.

IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 13 January 2008 (IRIN) - Asia's "green revolution" is a dramatic example of how even modest technological advances in developing countries have helped boost incomes and reduce the number of people living in poverty, according to the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects 2008 report, subtitled Technology Diffusion in the Developing World.

NBC

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has handed over information and communication technology and audio-visual equipment valued at over 500-thousand dollars to the Kavango Regional Council on Monday.

Energy Insights

Leading independent research and advisory firm, Energy Insights, announced the release of its annual Worldwide Energy Industry 2008 Top 10 Predictions. According to this new study, climate-focused energy policies, consumer and business concern with climate change, and increasing attention by investors in sustainability will drive energy companies to increase their investments in a range of energy and information technologies.