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26 July 2006, News
Southern Africa    Sentech has already started digital terrestrial television (DTT) test transmissions and has announced that it is set to spend close to R1 bn over the next five years on upgrading its ...

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12 July 2006, News
Southern Africa    Following Wavecom's recent acquisition of Sony Ericsson's M2M Business Unit, the new Wavecom's distribution network in South Africa has strengthened. Both Trinity Telecomms and newly-appointed ...

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14 June 2006, News
Southern Africa    Vodacom has announced group profit from operations for the period 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006 was up 36,9% to R8,9 bn. Net profit after taxation was up 32,0% to R5,1 bn. Vodacom also ...

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28 June 2006, News
Southern Africa    Spescom has announced a headline loss of R11,8m for the six months ending 31 March, 2006, as compared to the R10,9m loss for the corresponding period last year. According to Spescom's ...

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17 May 2006, News
Southern Africa    Altech has announced solid results for the year ended 28 February 2006. Revenue increased by 9% to R6 bn, with operating income of R485m. EBITDA were up 16,8% to R722m. The Altech group ...

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3 May 2006, News
Southern Africa    Altech ISIS has agreed to acquire, for an undisclosed sum, MobiMaster, a specialist telecommunications realtime converged (pre- and post-paid) billing system provider business from French ...

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19 April 2006, News
Southern Africa South Africa is seen as a potential breeding ground for high-quality information communication technology (ICT) professionals, yet our government is still grossly under-skilled. According ...

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6 April 2006, News
Southern Africa    South African electronic surveillance, security and image processing stalwart for the past 18 years, Thales Advanced Engineering, has adopted a new business strategy and direction and ...

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22 March 2006, News
Southern Africa    The Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) has launched the Energy Efficiency Campaign for 2006 and Beyond (EEM2006+), themed 'It is in your power'. Launched in partnership with the ...

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8 March 2006, News
Southern Africa    The CSIRM has announced that an agreement has been reached whereby Herley Industries of the USA will acquire digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) technology from the CSIR. Herley will ...

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22 February 2006, News
Southern Africa    Space science expertise in South Africa and France is set to receive a boost following a skills development agreement between the CSIR and Alcatel Alenia Space France. Co-operation is ...

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8 February 2006, News
Southern Africa    Sentech hosted the recent Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) Work Group and Project Management Committee (PMC) meetings in Gauteng. The meetings began with opening remarks ...

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25 January 2006, News
Southern Africa    Saab Grintek is acquiring Aerospace Monitoring and Systems (AMS) in a R30 million deal, expected to be finalised in April 2006. See 'Saab Grintek acquires avionics company AMS'.       Vodacom...

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30 November 2005, News
Southern Africa    The Meraka Institute, the CSIR's national research centre dedicated to information and communications technology (ICT), was part of the Department of Communication's delegation on the ...

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16 November 2005, News
Southern Africa    Local RFID technology developer, Trolley Scan, has developed a new RFID technology that it has trademarked 'RFID-radar'. In the past RFID readers were limited to identify tags that were ...

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2 November 2005, News
Southern Africa    The dti runs an innovation support programme that is administered by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) called Support Programme for Industrial Innovation (SPII). This programme ...

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19 October 2005, News
Southern Africa    In its financial results for the six months ended 31 August 2005, Altech reported that all income, balance sheet and cash flow metrics showed strong positive increases. Revenue increased ...

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5 October 2005, News
Southern Africa    With the celebration of its 60 years of existence in 2005, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is refocusing its core activities to adhere to its founding purpose ...

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21 September 2005, News
Southern Africa    The Go Open Source Task Team Conference held in Johannesburg in August, brought together government departments, private sector, academia and non-governmental organisations. The conference ...

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7 September 2005, News
Southern Africa    Merryl Ford was among the 13 inventors from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) who received recognition for patents granted to the CSIR during 2003. The Innovation ...

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