Jul 7, 2016
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to be flat in 2016, totaling $3,41-trillion. The Gartner forecast is up from last quarter’s expectation of negative 0,5% growth, and has changed mainly due to currency fluctuations. “The current Gartner Worldwide IT...
Jul 6, 2016
New cloud service provider and cloud broker Node Africa has demonstrated how viable the notion that Africa can and should be a “cloud-first” continent truly is. In just six weeks the company was able to deploy a complete greenfield data centre...
Jul 5, 2016
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft last night successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. “Independence Day always is something to celebrate, but today we can...
Jul 4, 2016
A brilliant new blue pigment – discovered almost by accident by Oregon State University (OSU)chemists in 2009 – is now reaching the marketplace, where it will be used in a wide range of coatings and plastics. The commercial development has solved a quest that began...
Jul 1, 2016
NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has entered the planet’s magnetosphere, where the movement of particles in space is controlled by what’s going on inside Jupiter. “We’ve just crossed the boundary into Jupiter’s home turf,”...
Jun 30, 2016
The sun has gone blank twice in June, with no sun spot activity recorded at all. According to Meteorologist Paul Dorian, the sun went spotless for the first time since 2011 from 4 June, for four days. Although sunspot regions then reappeared for the next few weeks on...
