All systems go for Windows 10

All systems go for Windows 10

Jul 29, 2015

The first of the expected 1-billion downloads of Windows 10 started this morning as the production version of the first operating system developed by crowdsourcing went live. All Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users can upgrade to the new Windows 10 for free over the next few months. Users in the Insider Programme are able to download their copies from today, while users who have reserved their upgrades will receive them over the next days and weeks. Other users can go online to reserve their upgrades from today.

Trust key in consumer markets

Trust key in consumer markets

Jul 28, 2015

An incisive new report has found that 61% of senior executives in the consumer markets industry have cited building consumer trust as a core value; and 32% say trust is, and will continue to be, one of their biggest challenges over the next one to two years – second...
Pluto gives up its secrets

Pluto gives up its secrets

Jul 27, 2015

Flowing ice and a surprising extended haze are among the newest discoveries from NASA’s New Horizons mission, which reveal distant Pluto to be an icy world of wonders. “We knew that a mission to Pluto would bring some surprises, and now – 10 days after closest...
What African businesses need

What African businesses need

Jul 24, 2015

New African businesses need financial resources, better facilities and services, and government support to alleviate the challenges they face. These are some of the findings from a survey of 1 000 business owners throughout sub-Saharan Africa on entrepreneurship in...
SA business slow to automate

SA business slow to automate

Jul 23, 2015

While the majority of organisations worldwide are planning to automate business practices, with some jobs being discontinued as a result, less than a third of South African businesses are considering this course of action. This is according to a new Grant Thornton...
New energy from rare earth

New energy from rare earth

Jul 22, 2015

A team of scientists has discovered a novel approach to crafting higher thermoelectric efficiencies, which can help develop electrical energy from waste heat such as that emitted by internal combustion engines. Professor André Strydom from the Department of Physics at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) collaborated with researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing; Institute of Solid State Physics in Vienna; the Max Planck Institute in Dresden; and the University of Aarhus in Denmark in the discovery. A research article, Large Seebeck Effect by Charge-Mobility Engineering, co-authored by Prof Strydom, appeared in the June 2015 edition of Nature Communications.