{"id":549354,"date":"2006-06-29T08:17:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T08:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549354-weekly-it-news.html"},"modified":"2006-06-29T08:17:42","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T08:17:42","slug":"weekly-it-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549354-weekly-it-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly IT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">QUADREM, the online trading hub for the mining industry, has promoted Brandon Spear from vice-president of Quadrem Africa to its senior vice-president of operations. Spear was a founder of Internet Solutions and will move to Dallas to oversee Quadrem\u2019s global operations. The new vice-president of Quadrem Africa is Mike Kersten. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>MTN students graduate in telecoms<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">NINETY students, 13 of them disabled, have graduated from MTN\u2019s learnerships programme, achieving a national certificate for telecommunications technicians. Two MTN trainers also earned a national diploma in occupationally directed education, training and development practices. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Telkom to research rural communications<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">TELKOM\u2019s Centre of Excellence at the Tshwane University of Technology has begun a research project to develop affordable wireless telecommunication systems to reach rural communities where customers are far apart. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>UK\u2019s Carphone Warehouse group invests in SA<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS company The Carphone Warehouse has appointed South African Wynand Schutte as GM of The Phone House, a R200m contact centre set up in Cape Town to serve its UK clients. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>Free iBurst internet for disadvantaged schools<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">WIRELESS broadband provider iBurst will give 16 schools high speed, wireless internet this year in its iRevolution initiative. The hardware will be free and iBurst will subsidise the monthly internet subscriptions. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>IBM wins deal extension of big Golf Fields deal<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">GOLD Fields has lengthened a five-year, multimillion-dollar deal with IBM for an extra year, with IBM managing all Gold Fields\u2019 IT systems in SA in partnership with network integrator Integr8 IT. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Solutions founder Spear to head up Quadrem\u2019s global operations <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}