Computing SA staff

ICT market analyst, BMI-TechKnowledge Group, has announced the release of its latest publication: The future of broadband in South Africa (SA).

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa (SA) are alive and well, and regard themselves as being highly competitive. This is one of the key findings of SME Survey 2004, a project that researched the role played by government, ICT and financial services in small and medium business in SA.

The Business Software Alliance's (BSA) truce on software piracy drew to a close last week with 215 registrations to legalize pirated or unlicensed software. In addition, 188 companies that failed to register and take advantage of the truce could now face investigation for alleged software piracy.

Ebox24 Online (Pty) Ltd. has chosen South Africa (SA) as the launching pad for ebox24 (http://www.ebox24.co.za), a business services e-marketplace for selling and buying business services. The new engine is the brainchild of MD, Juergen Laug, and marketing director, Nicole Nehaus, who come from a background of business consulting and online marketing, and, as such, are well equipped for this line of business.

Although the South Africa (SA) enterprise application suite (EAS) market expanded by more than 50 per cent in 2003 when measured in dollars, growth was a more moderate 9.5 per cent in rand terms. Nevertheless, this was well ahead of the economy, which grew by just under two per cent last year.

Prism Holdings Ltd. says that it is making inroads into the burgeoning African G.lobal System for Mobile Communications (GSM) market following the conclusion of a partnership agreement with Mithratech SA (Pty) Ltd., the Johannesburg-based prepaid telephone scratchcard manufacturer.

Capetonians will be able to discover the convenience of wireless broadband Internet access when Sentech Pty. Ltd. launches its MyWireless service in Cape Town on May 27. Similar services have already gone live in Johannesburg, Midrand, Pretoria and Durban.

British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, seeks to make the U.K. one of the world's leading "e-conomies". The plan? To provide every citizen with Internet...