May 9, 2013
In a first for South Africa, Vodacom Blue Bulls season ticket holders simply tapped contactless cards to gain instant access to the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria last week. The near field communication (NFC) turnstile access-control and ticketing systems were...
May 7, 2013
SAP has launched a cloud version of its HANA enterprise in-memory processing system. Speaking at an international pre-release announcement yesterday evening, Dr Vishal Sikka, SAP executive board member: technology and innovation, explains that the announcement is the...
May 7, 2013
Africa’s share of global foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown over the past five years, highlighting the growing interest from foreign investors. This is according to Ernst & Young’s third Africa Attractiveness Survey, which combines an analysis of...
May 6, 2013
Scientists from IBM have unveiled the world’s smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named A Boy and His Atom, the Guinness World Records-verified movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of...
May 3, 2013
Brian Krzanich will become the new CEO of Intel on 16 May, when Paul Otellini steps down. Krzanich, Intel’s chief operating officer since January 2012, will become the sixth CEO in Intel’s history. “After a thorough and deliberate selection process, the board of...
May 2, 2013
What would happen if half of all global production for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), two-thirds of NAND flash manufacturing and 70% of the world’s tablet display supply suddenly disappeared from the market? The answer would be chaos, with the worldwide...
