Amazon.com opens centre in Cape Town, and other brief reports...
Publish date: 27 July 2005
Issue Number: 1091
Diary: Legalbrief eLaw
Category: Corruption
* Global leading e-tailer, Amazon.com, has opened a development centre in Cape Town and is recruiting software programmers to man it. Heading the local operation is SA-born Chris Pinkham, who has worked for Amazon.com for five years and has returned to Cape Town to launch the centre. Full Business Day report
* Hewlett-Packard is to cut 14 500 jobs or 10% of its workforce in an effort to slash costs. The restructuring, to be implemented over the next 18 months, is the most significant so far by new Chief Executive Mark Hurd. The staff reductions would be the second-largest in the companys 66-year history. Following its 2002 acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp, HP cut 15 900 jobs. Full Los Angeles Times report * MWeb Business and MTN Network Solutions have both launched uncapped ADSL offerings for business clients. MWebs uncapped business offering has a fixed monthly rate of R1 350, while MTN Network Solutions\' ADSL Internet Access Package, targeted at the small office/home office, is uncapped at a fixed monthly rate of R1 950. Full ITWeb report * The number of legal music tracks being downloaded internationally has trebled in the first half of this year, according to the International Federation of Phonographic Industries. In the first six months of 2005, legal music downloads in the US, UK, Germany and France, outstripped the 2004 total. Full TechNewsWorld report
