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 Is ICASA's legal department holding it to ransom? by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT
On 31 March 2011, ICASA published the new Radio Frequency Spectrum Regulations in the Govt Gazette. The ink had hardly dried on the document when ICASA received a flurry of complaints about mistakes and inaccuracies... ( more)
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 In conversation with Franck Cohen, SAP by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT Franck Cohen, president of SAP Europe, Middle East and Africa, recently visited SA. While most companies were still in the recovery stage - mainly driven by the debt crisis - SAP celebrated its 40th anniversary with a 25% growth in 2011... ( more) |
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CSSA surveys the ICT fraternity
Information from CSSA
Computer Society South Africa (CSSA) has embarked on a survey aimed at both individuals and corporates who are active in the ICT space in this country. If you work in the ICT industry, if you are an employer of ICT skills or if you are studying to become an ICT practitioner, CSSA wants to know how you feel... (more)
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Launch of software development magazine
Information from JCSE
The launch edition of the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering's Source Code magazine has been released. This initiative aims to provide a resource guide for the software development community and contains lists of independent software vendors as well as information on all of ICT-related programs at SA universities... ( more) |
Intelligent Building Automation - is it a business imperative?
by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT
Is intelligent building automation just about being green, or is it a business imperative, given the climate of ever-increasing energy costs, and worse, a dwindling supply? It is a point of debate that is surely appearing on many boardroom meeting agendas... ( more) |
Innovating for a new generation
by Massimo Capoccia, Infor
The author looks at how a new generation of business software is helping to boost manufacturers' speed and performance, and engage the workforces of tomorrow. Manufacturers have taken innovative measures to strip out costs, boost productivity and ensure they are in the best possible shape to ride the waves generated by the recession... ( more) |
Video conferencing and telepresence - are they taking off?
by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerITWith fuel prices at an all-time high and airfares skyrocketing, telepresence, video conferencing and teleconferencing should be taking off. Every vendor tells clients how much their companies can save on travel costs and time and increase productivity, but as yet the market has not seen large scale adoption... ( more) |
Data centres see huge growth
by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT
A few years ago there were only a handful of data centres in South Africa, now they seem to be everywhere. The growth is obviously driven by demand, migration to the cloud and more companies outsourcing their IT services. In many respects data centres offer better business continuity... (more)
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South Africa's first green data park
Information from Single Destination Engineering
The first phase of SA's first Green data park is now in operation in Centurion. Fully developed, the park will support 6000 m² of data space. When the project commenced in June 2011, the predicted game-changing Bladeroom efficiency was greeted with general disbelief... (more)
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Planning a data centre - the systems planning approach
by Neil Rasmussen and Suzanne Niles, Schneider Electric
System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data centre physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and ultimately a compromised system... (more)
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SA tunnel FM radio systems safeguards travellers
by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerIT
Many South African-engineered and -manufactured products find their way overseas, yet we seldom read about it in our local media. One example is a tunnel FM radio system designed and manufactured by Broadcast Solutions Electronics in Cape Town. The company was created by the management buyout from Plessey in 2000... (more)
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Cloud computing for midsize businesses innovation and efficiency by Jeannine Jennings, IBM
The right cloud solution offers midsize companies an advantage, all the while aiming to improve efficiency and employee productivity, enter new markets and find new opportunities, manage risk, improve business agility and retain customers... ( more)
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Data protection today - a strategic approach
by Samresh Ramjith, Dimension Data Middle East & Africa
Data, and more specifically information, has become the lifeblood of any organisation. An organisation unable to provide the right information to the right people at the right time is essentially crippled. As the importance and sensitivity of information increases, so does the need to protect it... (more)
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Facilities management for manufacturing
by Leon Williamson, Invensys WonderwareWhen most people think of facilities management they think of monitoring building systems and environmental variables. Less obvious and less visible, but equally important, is the role facilities management plays in the manufacturing sector... ( more)
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Capture, decode and debug of low speed serial buses
by Tony Minchell, LeCroy, UK In recent years there has been a proliferation of low speed serial buses. New protocols are continually entering the market, providing product designers and end users with more features, performance and robustness, but also with new debug challenges to validate the performance and interoperability... (more) |
The complex interplay of freewheeling diodes and IGBTs
by Stefan Schule and André Müller, Semikron, Germany
Once an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) turns off, the load current commutates to the freewheeling diode. To avoid undesirable side-effects, these two semiconductors have to be very well matched in terms of their electrical properties... ( more)
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Telecoms developments in Africa
Compiled by Matthew White, Iona Press Services- Ghana tops, SA lags in broadband download speed
- Nigeria seizes bank equipment from Benin
- Kenya acts to contain damage from fibre cuts
- Namibia's new licences set to change telecoms landscape
- Rwanda gets third telecoms operator
- Tunisiana wins tender for 3G and landline licence
- Warid to invest another US$25-million in Uganda
- Africonnect launches "fastest" internet service in Zambia
- MTN gets extended licences in Benin, Cote d'Ivoire
- 231 Tanzanian villages to get telecoms links... (more)
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Amateur Radio: Propagation - a fertile ground for researchers
by Hans van de Groenendaal, EngineerITScientists agree that radio wave propagation requires ongoing research as there are still many unanswered questions particularly when it comes to propagation on frequencies above 30 MHz. Radio amateurs are well known for their passion to explore the vagaries of the ionosphere... ( more)
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Gadgets 4 Geeks
- Touch anywhere to navigate
- Pre-programmed touch
- Smart viewing, smart sharing... (more)
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