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Blue Turtle Technologies recently received two major awards from NetApp South Africa. The awards included Growth Partner of the Year and top honour for Partner of the Year. Blue Turtle, a NetApp software partner, who specialize in NetApp ONcommand suite of products, beat the more established heavyweight hardware partners to achieve these accolades. “NetApp is a 100% indirect organisation in South Africa, parenting is in our DNA. Partners such as Blue Turtle are like a diamond in a coal dump; very rare and hard to find.Read More…

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Sony Ericsson announced the Middle East launch of Xperia mini pro, a feature-rich and compact smartphone that is built on the success of the original mini-series. The versatile smartphone offers a complete multimedia entertainment experience and instant communication functionalities. Xperia mini pro enables access to over 250,000 apps on the Android Market and has a three-inch scratch-resistant, multi-touch glass screen. The improved user interface allows the display of up to 16 apps on the home screen. Read More…

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Leading South African distributor Drive Control Corporation (DCC) today announced the launch of Verbatim’s latest innovation in music world, the Store n Go Audio USB and the Bluetooth Audio Cube. Drika Wilkins, Verbatim Product Specialist at DCC, says “The Store n Go Audio USB is the perfect size USB to take with you wherever you go. Designed to fit any USB port, this nifty little gadget was developed specifically to be used in your car. The Store n Go holds an incredible 8 Gigabytes (GB) of data, making it perfect for listening to all your favourite songs while on the road, for many hours. The Store n Go has the added benefit of its ability to be kept in any USB port for a long period of time due to its small footprint, delivering even more convenience.”Read More…

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Canon has been recently been awarded three ‘Outstanding Achievement’ awards and an award for ‘Outstanding Energy Efficiency’ by testing and research organisation, Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) in its Summer 2011 ‘Pick’ Awards. After going through BLI’s rigorous in-depth laboratory tests Canon picked up awarded Summer 2011 ‘Pick’ Awards for: Canon i-SENSYS MF4580 got Outstanding A4 Personal Monochrome MFP for its “impeccable reliability” and outstanding ease of use.
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South Africa based leading IT and advisory consultancy Barnstone has been appointed as an exclusive partner for the leading financial software solutions provider, Trintech in sub-Saharan Africa. “Creating financial statements to present to the market has always been an onerous undertaking, and one that has become more and more complex as business has globalised and regulations have proliferated,” says Conrad Steyn, director of Barnstone. “Our clients were continually asking for an industry-leading solution that automated the management of their financial close, replaced fragmented and manual processes with a workflow approach and delivered a high level of control. Trintech delivers all this and more.”Read More…

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Sage Software today announced reaching an partnership agreement with ADAM IT Solutions to provide its key solutions like Sage CRM and Accpac ERP and will particularly target SMEs and larger enterprises across all industry segments in UAE that is expected to help address the demand for more automation among SMEs in the region. ADAM IT believes that with Sage on board, they will now have the advantage of offering a comprehensive portfolio of services and solutions that can meet the automation demands of SMEs and larger enterprises.
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South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya will be the key players in the African ICT sector in the next five years. A survey conducted by Africa Business Panel among 800 business professionals involved with Africa shows that these 3 countries were earmarked as the continent’s favourites when it comes to the future of the ICT sector. Ghana, Egypt, Rwanda, Botswana, Angola, Uganda and Zimbabwe are the runners up and complete the top ten countries out of 53 economies on the African continent. Virtually all African economies show promising year-on-year growth.
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SAP Pakistan introduces Business Intelligence solutions especially aimed for Small and Medium Enterprises. SME’s make the biggest part of the economy and in fact, most Southeast Asian countries have more SMEs as registered businesses than large enterprises. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) puts the number of SMEs at 96% of all enterprises and employing up to 85% of overall workforce. SMEs also account for up to 30% of exports and contribute around 50% of GDP.Read More…

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Trend Micro announced the availability of Smart Surfing for Mac OS 10.7 or Lion. With Trend Micro Smart Surfing rated as the #1 best-selling product for Mac at retail in the U.S. and with Apple’s estimated global sales of more than 14 million machines, with the new version is expected to gain tremendously in market share. As Mac popularity and sales have grown, so has interest among cybercriminals in targeting those users. Recent outbreaks include Trojans and Fake AV like Mac Defender and MacGuard.
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Golden Systems Middle East, today announced to have won the ‘Best Distributor’ award for the Middle East region from ZOTAC International. Golden Systems was chosen for this accolade for their outstanding sales performance in 2010, effective regional distribution strategy, customer service, strong marketing support and for increasing ZOTAC’s market share and brand visibility in the region. “We are happy and proud to win a second award from ZOTAC this year. Being awarded the ‘Best Distributor’ award is another milestone for Golden Systems which has motivated our team to work even harder towards achieving further growth for this brand in the region.
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SAS Middle East, the provider of business analytics software and services in the Middle East region, has formed a strategic partnership with Maven Partners, a leading firm specializing in the application of quantitative methods to growth and optimization issues of enterprises that aims to further penetrate the customer intelligence domain of various industry verticals across the region. According to SAS, the partnership will play a significant role in the company’s continuing efforts in channel partner expansion. The SAS Channel Program is the company’s strategic initiative that aims to help partners drive in more business value for its clients. Read More…

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Kingston today announced the launch of the Kingston USB 3.0 Media Reader. The reader takes advantage of performance benefits offered by USB 3.0 technology, allowing for faster data transfer times. The new Media Reader supports multiple card formats including the newer high-capacity SDXC. With its quick and easy plug-and-play design, it delivers up to 5.0Gb/s data transfer speed for high-resolution images, large data files and more making it ideal for serious enthusiasts who need a fast and reliable data transfer device. It is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0.Read More…