CITI Newsletter: October 2008
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Up one levelAccTech Systems takes top Microsoft partner awards
AccTech Systems, Gold certified Microsoft Partner with nine Microsoft competencies, and the Softline Accpac business partner of the year scooped 2 awards at the annual Microsoft Partner Programme awards ceremony.
PIC Solutions Expands Services in Pakistan
Dubai, 14 August 2008 - PIC Solutions, the leading specialist credit risk management consultancy in the Middle East and Africa, has expanded its services in Pakistan by adding a dedicated Senior Relationship Manager to serve the rapidly growing client base in Karachi and Lahore.
SynthaSite Offers Web Site Builders Easy Access to More Than 60,000 Widgets through Integration with Widgetbox
Tool allows users to add games, chat, video and social networking without leaving the site. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., — August 4, 2008 — Aiming to make the Web site publishing experience both accessible and simple for the everyday Internet user, SynthaSite, the leading do-it-yourself free Web site builder, today announced the integration of the Widgetbox Gallery to SynthaSite’s toolbox.
PIC Appoints Chief Operating Officer
Cape Town, 5 August 2008 – As part of the continued expansion in the South African market place, PIC Solutions has appointed David McAlpin as Chief Operating Officer.
Evolv Networks: Microsoft Partner Programme Awards 2008 - Finalist
Evolv Networks are very proud to announce that they have been nominated as a finalist in the Microsoft Partner Program Awards for 2008. "This is a huge accomplishment and we are therefore proud to be in the top 8 of all Microsoft Partners who develop Advanced Infrastructure Solutions." Below you’ll see a list of pretty well known names they are competing against.
UNISA uses Freedom Toaster to provide digital course material
The world’s largest distance learning institution, the University of South Africa (UNISA) is now using Freedom Toasters to provide students with course-related resources.
BEE entrepreneurs can get connected
Empowered IT start-up companies stand in line to win a year’s free office space and mentoring programme, thanks to a competition launched by BSG and the Bandwidth Barn. The competition forms part of both organisations’ goal to encourage the creation of sustainable IT businesses.
BSG/BWB Enterprise Development Award – Application Form
Empowered IT start-up companies stand in line to win a year’s free office space and mentoring programme, thanks to a competition launched by BSG and the Bandwidth Barn. The competition is open to any black-owned, entrepreneurial ICT company. Entries close on Friday, 29 August. Entrants will be briefed during September on how they will be measured, and the winner announced in February/March 2009. For further details please contact Chris Vermeulen at chris@bwb.org.za
Formfunction Honoured Into 2008 My Mentor Programme
FormFunction Digital Consultants (PTY) Ltd has been proudly accepted as one of the ICT companies for the 2008 CITI My Mentor programme.
Riyad Bank Signs for Collections HealthCheck
Dubai, 24 July 2008 - Riyad Bank, one of the largest and most respected financial institutions in Saudi Arabia, has selected PIC Solutions to conduct a Collections HealthCheck on a number of their consumer credit portfolios.
Two of South Africa's Travel Industry Biggest Leaders Appoint Clicks2Customers for Paid Search Campaigns
[16 April 2008] Paid search experts, Clicks2Customers, has been appointed by two of South Africa’s leading players in the travel sector, to drive more search-engine traffic to their web sites.
South African paid search giant Clicks2Customers expands into Europe
[22 February 2008] The rapid growth experienced by search marketing across the globe has been the catalyst for Clicks2Customers, the US high performance paid search marketing specialists and strategic partner to Google South Africa, to expand into Europe.
Clicks2Customers - Company History
Clicks2Customers was founded in 2003 by a pioneer in Internet marketing, Vinny Lingham. The World Wide Web was transforming business, communications, information gathering, media… and marketing. This was a time of massive change in the Internet, where the mind-blowing growth in the number of pages on the Web meant that the search engine became the place most people started browsing – and increasingly they were looking for products and services from the burgeoning number of companies selling online.
AudioCodes Introduces the Mediant 1000 Multi-Service - 23 June
Combining a VoIP media gateway and IP-IP gateway with security and data capabilities addresses new market opportunities in an all-in-one multi-service access solution.
TYAN and Dual Dynamic Power Management - 3 June
TYAN AMD Servers now support DDPM. But what exactly is it?
High Performance Systems business unit within RedLinX™
RedLinX Press Release April - High Performance Systems (HPS), previously known as Business Solutions, was restructured with the primary intention of focusing on the core business of RedLinX™ – providing hardware solutions.
The Grunderskolen Programme
The Grunderskolen Programme (based at the University of Oslo) was launched from the Wits Business School for the first time in South Africa in 2005.
ACET Processing Upgrades to Latest VisionPLUS Release
Cape Town, 11 March 2008 – ACET Processing (ACET) has successfully consolidated the upgrade of their processing platform to Version 8.23 of VisionPLUS®.
Phishing for your phone is on the increase
June 26, 2008 Companies that communicate with their customers using SMS could leave those same customers wide open to phishing, the fraudulent attempt to collect personal or banking details. Dr Piet Streicher, MD of BulkSMS.com, a global mobile messaging company headquartered in Cape Town explains why companies need to ensure that their customers are made aware of the types of SMS messages they send out, and what, if any, information they might request via the SMS channel to reduce the risk of SMS fraud through phishing attacks
Community organisations use bulk SMS messaging during the refugee crisis
June 11, 2008 BulkSMS.com, a Cape Town based messaging service provider, recorded its highest ever monthly SMS volumes on the Community.BulkSMS messaging platform during the recent refugee crisis fomented by xenophobic violence against foreign nationals. These above average SMS statistics for organisations within South Africa’s civil society were largely based on calls for volunteers and essential items to assist displaced African immigrants.
PIC Solutions Continues to Expand Board of Directors
Cape Town, 19 August 2008 – PIC Solutions, the leading specialist credit risk solutions company in the EMEA region, has expanded their Board of Directors to include Simon Trupp.
Management Buy Out at ACET Processing
Cape Town, 20 August 2008 – PIC Solutions, the leading specialist credit risk management consultancy in the Middle East and Africa, has sold ACET Processing to its management via an MBO transaction.
SynthaSite Offers New Array of Templates to Teachers in Time for Back to School
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., — August 26, 2008 — As education professionals return to the classrooms, SynthaSite, the leading do-it-yourself free Web site builder, today announced new design templates to ease teachers' burdens and help them engage with parents and students. With templates geared toward the preschool, K – 12 and graduate years, teachers now can enjoy a variety of back to school templates to conveniently share valuable expertise with their colleagues or prepare parents and students so pupils can be more successful in class.
Interntional Engineering and Technology Fair (IETF) 2009, India