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A massive game in your pocket

Any dyed-in-the-wool geek is familiar with massively multiplayer online role-playing games. Vodacom has taken the MMORPG and gone mobile, and mainstream.

Software? What software?

True or false? Every piece of software your organisation uses is properly licensed, and you are only paying for as many licences as you actually need.

Software

Samantha Perry

A traitor in your pocket

Security has traditionally focussed on software and systems, with the actual hardware not getting much airtime. That has to change.

Traitor

Samantha Perry

Building your Online Home

COMMUNICATIONS - WEB SOLUTIONS Words: Carel Alberts INSIGHT Hans Wencke, managing director of specialist Web hosting company Hetzner, offers the following advice: - Plan: You will naturally want to avoid making costly mistakes.

Building

Virtual Private Networks

COMMUNICATIONS - DATA SERVICES Words: Carel Alberts VPNS VIRTUAL PRIVATE Networks allow for secure, remote access to an organisation’s network using public telecommunications, like the Internet or a service providers’ private network – in much the same way as your printers or PCs are connected to each other.

Virtual

Managing Your Customer Relationships

SOFTWARE - BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Words: Pamela Weaver CRM Giving your customers what they want just keeps getting more important.

Managing

Moving Beyond the Basics

SOFTWARE - BUSINESS APPLICATIONS Words: Pamela Weaver YOUR NEEDS Getting to grips with applications that grow and expand with your business.

Moving

Open Your Mind (and Your PC): Linux on the SME Desktop

SOFTWARE - OPERATING SYSTEMS Words: Pamela Weaver LINUX The past couple of years have seen a massive increase in coverage for the GNU/Linux system.

Open

Which Platform for You?

HARDWARE - SERVERS Words: Pamela Weaver DECISIONS, DECISIONS Microsoft, Apple, Linux, LAMP, FreeBSD, Solaris.

Which

The Famous Four

HARDWARE - MOBILE DEVICES Words: Janet Paterson and Paul Hartley DEVICE ADVICE So you’ve done your homework in terms of device features, and made your choice about the operating system that suits your business needs best.

THE

5 Tips to Extend Your Battery Life

HARDWARE - Laptops and PCs Words: Pamela Weaver POWER PLAYS THINK SHRINK If long battery life is your primary concern with a laptop, forget about monster-sized screens with souped-up processors.

Tips

You Are The weakest Link. Hello.

INTRO - landscape Words: Janet Paterson TEAMWORK The imporTance of teamwork in any business operation is vital, but for an Sme, it can be a make or break issue.

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PERFORMANCE BEYON D BORDERS

Brandon Rochat Sales Director, Expand Networks AfricaMarketing: Juniper Networks Staff complaining about network and system performance – again? Perhaps it’s time to look past your business software applications and all the other red herrings like running a defrag, full patching, virus scanning, spyware scanning and so on, and go directly to your Wide Area Network (WAN).

Performance

Brandon Rochat