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Honeywell extended its presence in Egypt and North Africa with appointment of Giza Systems as its authorised systems integrator. This will enable Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) to establish a stronger local presence beyond its traditional installed base in the region. Together, HPS and Giza Systems will address all industrial sectors and fulfill customer needs by providing highly efficient and reliable services based on local support and expertise from Giza Systems, with global back-up from HPS.Read More…

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Leading South African distributor, Drive Control Corporation’s (DCC) unveiled its new strategy to increase customer awareness and retail presence by reaching an agreement with Makro for the mass market retailer to stock a range of Hewlett Packard (HP) and Western Digital (WD) products. This agreement builds on DCC’s existing relationship with Makro, supplying additional products to the consumer market while leveraging Makro’s extensive customer base and nationwide footprint. Read More…

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Nology South Africa unveiled its latest innovation Billion BiPAC 2075 Compact HomePlug AV 500 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. This compact, clever device plugs straight into your wall sockets, enabling the use of existing power cabling to create a stable, fast network that allows you to connect multiple devices across a home or office environment without the traditional drawbacks of wireless technology. “Using wireless networking has often been the answer for people who do not wish to lay Ethernet cables, but speed and quality of the connection can impact bandwidth intensive applications. Read More…

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Epson recently announced the expansion of its team in South Africa to grow the highly potential Southern Africa market. Epson appointed a new channel sales manager, Hennie Crous, and he will be responsible for Epson’s Tier 1 distributors, and will be working hard with them at developing expansive business development strategies that reflect Epson’s growth aspirations in both South and southern Africa. Crous joins Epson from Fujitsu Technology Systems, where he brings with him a wealth of channel management experience. He has held senior positions within both vendors and distributors and was with HP for many years.Read More…

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Mustek recently signed the distribution agreement with Lenovo to distribute Think range being aimed at SMEs and the Idea range at retail outlets in South Africa to spearhead Lenovo’s expansion within the small and medium-sized business (SME) sector. “Although we’re already growing faster than the market, both in South Africa and globally, we have no intention of taking our foot off the accelerator,” says Henry Ferreira, country manager, Lenovo South Africa. “We’re targeting expansion in specific sectors, of which SMB is one of the most significant. Mustek has a decades-long track record of serving that market and provides us, in a single partnership, with a breadth and depth of reach that would otherwise take us much longer to achieve. Read More…

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ContinuitySA, largest business continuity solutions provider Africa, announced the appointment of Michael Davies to the new position of managing director. In this new role, Davies will assume full operational and financial responsibility for ContinuitySA. The current CEO, Allen Smith, will remain on in his current position, but will focus on overall group strategy and acquisitions. “Allen has been the driving force behind ContinuitySA’s growth into Africa’s market leader,” says Davies. “This move is part of a carefully constructed succession plan that will give the company the continued benefit of Allen’s wisdom and experience, while ensuring the smoothest possible transition to a new generation of leadership. Personally, I am delighted that I will benefit from Allen’s mentorship in my new role.”Read More…

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LINKdotNET, announced that Waseem Arsany has been appointed as thew new CEO. Arsany will be responsible for leading a team of more than 1200 experts, and executives of LINKdotNET. Serving several hundreds of thousands of customers, and being the biggest ISP in the Egyptian market for over 19 years with its outreach, expertise, and excellent record LINKdotNET bears a huge responsibility towards the Country and the Egyptian society providing the best possible internet service to support the need for knowledge, and progression.
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Canon Middle East, announced that it is assuming responsibility over operations in East African markets as part of a strategy to enhance the delivery of support services to channel partners in the region. To mark its new alliance with Canon partners from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Rwanda and Burundi, a kick-off meeting was organised at The Palace hotel, Dubai where the company also discussed its strategy and highlighted the exciting opportunities in markets across East Africa.Read More…

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Tablet wave continues to charm its way into many hearts and inspiring a new breed of enterprises. One such example is VMK, an Congo based tech company now has ‘Designed and Engineered In Congo’ at their own R&D centre a sleek looking 7-inch flat panel tablet which would be powered by Android OS, that would come with 1.2GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB memory and Wi-Fi. The new android powered tablet from VMK stable, which will be the first android tablet from the african continent is expected to hit the stands in September 2011.Read More…

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Bytes Document Solutions, authorised Xerox distributor to 27 sub-Saharan countries, has met monumental success in sales of the ColorQube 9200 ever since it launched year back. It has been able to sell over 140 of the solid ink colour printing devices in Africa. Nedbank, Trudon, Pfizer, among others have been the adopter of ColorQube 9200 in the continent. This has been a highly successful first year for us. The tiered billing model of the device was a real market challenger.Read More…

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Equinox Egypt today announced that after meeting all the rigorous standards set forth by Cisco in networking competency, service, support, and customer satisfaction, it has achieved Cisco Gold Certification in Egypt. Speaking on the occasion Osama Qadan, Managing Partner at Equinox said, “We are extremely excited by this achievement and want to assure our clients and partners that Equinox will continue to be their default choice whenever they seek quality and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Today, Equinox is the choice for clients who strive to work with an industry leader excelling in project management, technical strength in delivery, training and competency development – all existing in a single center of excellence”.
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AMD announced the next generation in mainstream consumer computing with the availability of the new high-performance AMD Fusion A-Series accelerated processing units (APUs). Enabling truly immersive computing experiences in consumer notebooks and desktops, the AMD A-Series APUs enable brilliant HD graphics, supercomputer-like performance and over 10.5 hours of battery life. In an increasingly digital and visually-oriented world, consumers are placing ever-higher priorities on multitasking, vivid graphics, lifelike games, lag-free videos, and ultimate multimedia performance.
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