High time for ISPs, enterprises to prepare for IPv6
South African organisations and service providers must begin preparing for the shift towards Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) or risk facing significant operational and technical headaches when they're forced to implement the new protocol in two-to-three years' time. So says Rob Hunter, JINX Working Group chair at the Internet Service Providers' Association of SA (ISPA). 4 Sep 2008 08:32
Unusual content licence conditions for Google Chrome
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: With the intention of creating a better web experience for users around the world, Google launched its new open-source browser, Google Chrome, yesterday, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 [video]. However, new media lawyer Paul Jacobson of Jacobson Attorneys told Bizcommunity.com, the Google set of terms and conditions governing the new web browser are somewhat unusual. 3 Sep 2008 12:46
Make static surfaces interactive
Media Republic is launching the iSURFACE platform, which reportedly allows for any static surface to be transformed into a responsive or interactive media platform, in southern Africa, the Johannesburg-based alternative media company announced yesterday, Tuesday, 2 September 2008. 3 Sep 2008 09:11
Google Chrome: Google's own web browser
NEWSWATCH: The web browser wars are heating up with the launch sometime today, Tuesday, 2 September 2008, of the Windows version of Google Chrome, Google's new open source browser. According to various media reports, Google prematurely emailed its comic book explanation to a blogger, who promptly published it online under Creative Commons licence. The launch comes hot on the heels of the release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8. 2 Sep 2008 10:13
MultiChoice acquires multi-play service provider
MultiChoice South Africa is broadening its core DStv offerings using next generation networks by acquiring a controlling stake in Smart Village, a South African multi-play service provider offering a converged multimedia service to multi-dwelling units, retail and gated communities. 2 Sep 2008 09:06
2008 Corporate Publication Competition winners
Two titles shared top spot as best corporate publication 2008 at the SA Publication Forum's Corporate Publication Competition's award ceremony held in Midrand last. The two - Contact, staff newspaper of the City of Cape and Sandaba, Sanlam's staff newspaper - also shared top honours for the best corporate newspaper. Mary Willemse of Toyota was named Editor-of-the-Year. 2 Sep 2008 08:59
FLUX Quality Management System enables ACSA's field audits to take off - FLUX
The FLUX Quality Management System (QMS) Mobile application has been developed for Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) resulting in dramatic improvement in efficiency and effectiveness. 1 Sep 2008 15:50
International array of one-minute films
LONDON/VANCOUVER: Throughout September 2008, international one-minute film festival Filminute, will present an array of 25 films from 16 countries, the Filminute co-founders and executive directors John Ketchum and Sabaa Qua cofounders announced last week. 1 Sep 2008 08:31
M&G Media resumes control of M&G Online
NEWSWATCH: M&G Media's “long-awaited” acquisition of the Mail & Guardian Online from MWeb, which has owned a stake since 1995, was finalised yesterday, Thursday, 28 August 2008, the online news site has announced triumphantly, saying that it's a “major strike” for its independence and that it “will ensure that we own our future”. 29 Aug 2008 10:58
OPA launches digital media awards
The Online Publishers Association, South Africa's independent representative body for online publishers, in association with Lowe Bull, is launching The Bookmarks, an award engineered to benchmark the best in creative digital media, while educating and encouraging South African agencies, designers and clients as to the benefits and possibilities inherent in online advertising. 29 Aug 2008 09:10
Empowering citizens through digital voices
At the third Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI) in Grahamstown, South Africa, 6 - 9 September 2008, over 150 digital citizens will gather to take a closer look at those technologies that empower Africans to have a digital voice. The indaba welcomes bloggers, podcasters, vodcasters, mobile reporters, citizen reporters, new media practitioners, new media students, online industry experts, and civil society representatives. 29 Aug 2008 08:58
Name this open-source feed reader
Cape Town-based app development house thisarmy.com is looking for public participation in finding an appropriate name for its new web application: a good, old-fashioned feed aggregator. 29 Aug 2008 08:45
Countdown to Highway Africa 2008
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] This year, more than 700 journalists from over 40 African countries are expected to attend the 12th edition of Highway Africa - the world's biggest gathering for African journalists - which will take place on 8 - 10 September 2008 in Grahamstown, near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, Prof Guy Berger, head of Rhodes University's School of Journalism, told the media yesterday, Wednesday, 27 August 2008, during the event launch at the SABC headquarters in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. 28 Aug 2008 09:51
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