Entries from July 2008

Ex-Google engineers debut ‘Cuill’

28 Jul 08 · Leave a comment

Former Google employee Anna Patterson intends to upstage the Internet search company with a more comprehensive and efficient way to scour the Internet. Read more here…

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Sabinet at Scecsal 2008

22 Jul 08 · Leave a comment

Sabinet exhibited at the XVIII SCECSAL (Standing Conference of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa Library and Information Associations) Conference which took place at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre in Lusaka, Zambia from 15 – 18 July 2008.
Madira Makhubela and Tebogo Methi represented Sabinet at the conference. Both of them said that they had a wonderful [...]

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The iPhone 3G was finally launched…

15 Jul 08 · Leave a comment

iPhone 3G, originally uploaded by snowingindoors.
Gadget lovers around the world on Friday crammed into stores to buy the latest super-fast iPhone 3G only to find activating the coveted devices was hit-or-miss due to Apple computer troubles.
The much-ballyhooed launch of iPhone 3G was marred by activation troubles blamed on Apple’s online iTunes system.
Telecom giant AT&T, [...]

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Microsoft announces new Xbox model…

15 Jul 08 · Leave a comment

Xbox 360 buttons, originally uploaded by louder.
Microsoft said on Sunday it is cutting the price of its 20-gigabyte Xbox 360 video game consoles and rolling out a model with three times the memory space to take its place.
The US technology giant’s announcement comes two days before the official start of a major Electronic Entertainment [...]

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New People

04 Jul 08 · Leave a comment

Patience Masemola is another new young lady who joined our ePublications division during last month as a scanner and a verifier. We would like to welcome her to the Sabinet family!

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New People

04 Jul 08 · Leave a comment

Bertha Mokwape is the newest employee at our Centurion office. Bertha has joined the ePublications division as a Data Editor for our NetLaw product. Bertha is excited about her new position and we know that she will enjoy her time with us.

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$1,8m grant from Carnegie Corporation to establish African Online Journal Archive

03 Jul 08 · Leave a comment

The Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded a $1.8m grant to Sabinet Gateway for the creation an African Online Journal Archive.
This archive, the first of its kind to contain only African content, will make academic inputs from all over Africa available.
Rosalind Hattingh, our director of product management summed it up well by saying “It will, [...]

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Run your office from home…

02 Jul 08 · Leave a comment

THE office, originally uploaded by capturingreallife.
Read this article in IOL. It was kindly passed on to me by fellow techie “Marco McKenzie” !

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