Computing SA staff

Unisys Africa, a division of Unysis Corp., is set to attack the South Africa (SA) market for managed and outsourcing services more aggressively, in line with the strategy for the Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) region.

Econet Wireless Nigeria (EWN) Tuesday informed the Nigerian Federal High Court that its negotiations with Vodacom International Ltd. to take a controlling interest in the company have been aborted.

Allied Technologies Ltd. (Altech) subsidiary, Alcom Systems, has been awarded the South African Police Service (SAPS) tender for the supply, delivery, installation, commissioning and testing of a complete digital Terrestrial Trunked Radio (Tetra) communications network system for Gauteng.

The Durban municipality in South Africa (SA) has announced that it is to issue rates clearances live over the Internet. This is expected to be a huge step in clearing the current backlog, and Durban is the first to embrace the locally developed technology.

ICT market analyst, BMI-TechKnowledge Group has announced the publication of its latest report, The Africa Printer Report, which has highlighted that the African market reached 1,138,957 units valued at US$266.49 million in 2002.

Would-be winners who love entering consumer competitions are said to be driving huge growth in SMS-based competitions, given the ease of use.

Information exchange and open standards are fundamental to the future of the building design and construction environment. Taking the sharing of information one step further, software developer Autodesk Inc. and data exchange specialist G.E.M. Team Solutions have announced the availability of a translator that aims to allow building industry professionals to freely share intelligent data created in Autodesk Architectural Desktop 3.3 and 2004 with all project team members.

InterSystems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Epic Systems Corp. are said to have set a new record benchmark in a collaborative benchmark, scaling to 14,600 users