Pluto comes into focus
As NASA’s unmanned New Horizons spacecraft speeds closer to a historic 14 July Pluto flyby, it’s continuing to multi-task, producing images of an icy world that’s growing more fascinating and complex every day. On 11 July 2015, New Horizons captured an image that...
Breakthrough in 7nm chip design
The world’s first 7nm (nanometre) chips, which could potentially result in the ability to place more than 20-billion tiny transistors on fingernail-sized chips, have been developed by an alliance led by IBM Research. To achieve the higher performance, lower power and...
End of the road for Server 2003
In less than a week, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows Server 2003 – and a huge majority of companies using the operating system haven’t even begun migrating their systems. The risks to organisations will increase after next Wednesday when Microsoft stops issuing...
SA universities drop in rankings
South African universities have failed to gain a place in the QS University Ranking for BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries. The ranking compares the top 400 institutions in the five major emerging national economies. The ranking was published shortly after the Chinese Parliament ratified the creation of the BRICS Development Bank. The agreement had already been ratified in India and Russia. The New Development Bank, also known as the BRICS Bank, will finance infrastructure and development projects in BRICS countries, which are likely to include higher education related investments to further increase the global competitiveness of these economies.
SA workers go mobile
More than 95% of employees in South African companies rely on the use of mobile devices to do business. This is according to research by Dell into the use of mobile devices by South African businesses, carried out in association with Microsoft, which surveyed IT professionals from companies with more than 250 employees.