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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
SMS is "the one form of communication that many people are tethered to 24/7. Which helps explain why, at a time when in-boxes fill with hundreds of never-opened e-mail messages from direct marketers, 97 percent of all SMS marketing messages are opened (83 percent within one hour), according to the ...
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
One of the buzzwords in IT at the moment is "Cloud Computing" (also sometimes referred to as "Software as a Service" (SaaS)). Many consider it to be the next great wave in the IT industry.
The term "Cloud" can be interpreted as a reference to the cloud symbol frequently used in ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
The Labour Court (in Jafta v Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (D204/07) [2008] ZALC 84 (1 July 2008)) has recently confirmed that you can conclude a contract by email and SMS. This is not really anything new. Since the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act ("ECT Act") came into effect it ...
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