Ingrid Lotze speaking to Ashraf Garda on MEDIA @ SAfm on Sunday, 22 November 2009 in response to her opinion piece on “Print media’s decline: what are the consequences for PR? ”
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Building a successful profit model and the steps towards thoroughly understanding the interplay between revenues, costs, profit margin and resource velocity.

Graham Braum, former country manager at Acer South Africa, has been promoted to regional manager responsible for the entire Africa and Levant (Jordan and Lebanon) region.
In his new role, Braum will be responsible for overseeing Acer’s growth across some 27 countries. The organisation expects to name a country sales manager for South Africa in the [...]

South African companies that are committed to broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) need to step up their efforts around skills development and employment equity.
That’s the word from Michael Jacobus, chief executive officer at AL Indigo.
He says that most ICT companies have focused on the low hanging fruit of BBBEE in the form of corporate social [...]

Further making good on its commitment to catering for underserviced areas of the South African technology reseller space, Channelware has announced the opening of a new branch office in East London to service the needs of local resellers in the Eastern Cape area.
Located at 70 Stewart Drive in Bayville, the new branch opened its doors [...]

We all know just how tough this year has been and I am sure everyone would agree with me that we are optimistically looking forward to a slightly less stressful 2010.
My wish for the channel is that resellers realise tough times require making tough decisions and that they actually have the guts to follow their [...]

A recently announced partnership will strengthen the real estate industry by giving it ‘one voice’, say representatives from SAPTG and IEASA.
The most comprehensive source of property market data, the South African Property Transfer Guide (SAPTG) and the Institute of Estate Agents of South Africa (IEASA) recently announced their partnership. By bringing together the leading online [...]

South Africa’s largest black empowered IT distribution group, MB Technologies, has announced the appointment of Pierre Spies and Anton Herbst as executive directors to the main board.

Complementing its recent acquisition of the Dell brand of server, storage, desktop PC and notebook hardware, Tarsus Technologies has announced the local availability of Dell’s range of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and power distribution units.
“The availability of Dell’s PDU and UPS ranges locally allows customers to more accurately specify their power distribution and backup power [...]

At the beginning of November 2009 Gavin Moffat presented at a conference entitled Streaming Media for Organisations. The crux of the presentation was around the fact that the use of video is growing apace and makes up a large chunk of current bandwidth usage but as a communication medium it is still in its infancy [...]

The debate around OEM versus refurbished printer cartridges rages forth, especially in the current economic climate in which companies are looking to cut costs anywhere and everywhere they can.

With the economic climate forcing organisations to seek out ever more effective ways of reducing their operational expenditure, virtualisation is a more pertinent topic than ever before.