We spoke to several key role players about the advantages and disadvantages of using open source versus proprietary operating systems.
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Dataweek and Microchip are teaming up again to offer readers the chance to win a PICDEM Lab Development Kit, which is designed to provide a comprehensive development and learning platform for Microchip’s ...
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Embattled Dina Pule is the Minister of Communications no longer. In his cabinet reshuffle speech on the 9th of July, President Jacob Zuma announced that she will be replaced by Yunus Carrim, the former ...
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Pule has instructed the leaders of State-Owned Companies that report to her, to start meeting with her at least once a month to update her on their progress.
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The predominant issue for local designers and manufacturers of electronic products is competing against the influx of low-cost products from the East. How do they make a living in South Africa and is ...
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Pule stated that in the order of R8 billion will be needed over the next three years in order to successfully roll out DTT and meet the 17 June, 2015 deadline set by the International Telecommunications Union.
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The academy was launched in South Africa in 2011 as part of the company’s broader goal to develop 10 000 service technicians and electronic engineers across the continent by 2015.
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There was certainly a lot more buzz than there was at last year’s Johannesburg event, with a nearly constant stream of feet through the door.
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The original adjudication of the appointment of manufacturers was originally set for December 2012, then revised to March 2013. The DoC has since requested the STB manufacturers to extend the validity of the RFP until mid-June 2013.
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Minister of Communications Dina Pule lashed out not only at the Sunday Times and specific journalists who work for the newspaper, but also at those with “business and political interests related to the multi-billion rand set-top-box tender and related issues” as being complicit in a blackmail plot against her.
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An illegal strike at the South African Post Office’s Witspos and Tshwane mailing centres in Gauteng is affecting the delivery of Dataweek to subscribers in the region.
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This discovery is likely to prompt manufacturers of lead-free products to seek ways to diffuse and mitigate the particular stresses identified by the research.
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