Posts in Category: 'News'

April Fool’s Day

Well April Fool’s Day came and went without too much incident. I think this was something to do with it being a Sunday rather than a workday and who want’s to waste a perfectly good weekend setting up elaborate hoaxes? Google.
Google chose yesterday to announce the TiSP. Free broadband via your toilet. The user drops […]

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BBBEE for SMEs

The department of trade and industry’s broad-based BEE codes of good practice, approved by cabinet in December, were gazetted last month (February 2007).
There is good news for SMEs with them falling into one of two categories being either an Exempt Micro Enterprise (EME) or a Qualifying Small Enterprise (QSE). An EME is an enterprise whose […]

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Small Business is Big Business

Microsoft believes that small business is big business. Why? Well 98% of companies world wide are classified as small businesses, from an Information Technology classification that is a company with less than 25 personal computers.
This is good news for Petrel, as both a small business and a supplier to small businesses, and it is good […]

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Pastel Accounting 2007 Launch

Unfortunately because of our tardiness in booking Petrel missed the Jo’burg’s Channel Road Show for the launch of Pastel Accounting 2007, or version 9, as us Pastel Dealers like to call it; and had to attend the Road show held at the Centurion Lake Hotel, Pretoria this month.
Petrel Computer Consultants got together with the Pretoria […]

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Phrooti Internet Service Providers

Petrel Computer Consultants have formed a strategic alliance with Phrooti a South African based Internet Service Provider. Like Petrel Phrooti concentrate on the SME market. Phrooti aim to make the Internet cheap, easy and fun for small businesses to use.
With Internet traffic and e-commerce booming like never before small businesses cannot afford to miss this […]

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