Feb 25, 2013
It is clear that smartphones and tablets are driving mobility growth, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). The company’s Worldwide Quarterly Smart Connected Device trader shows that vendors shipped 367,7-million desktop PCs, portable PCs, tablets and...
Feb 22, 2013
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa are battling for survival. This stark and uncomfortable picture emerges from the second round of the SME Growth Index, Easier/Harder for Small Business in South Africa, produced by business environment specialists...
Feb 21, 2013
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled into a rock beyond Earth and collected a sample from its...
Feb 20, 2013
The convergence of social media, mobile computing, analytics and the cloud is transforming the way businesses operate, and companies that adopt available technologies to “go digital” will be better positioned to take advantage of rapidly shifting business...
Feb 19, 2013
A sophisticated series of hacking attacks is believed to be a concerted campaign by the People’s Liberation Army in China aimed at destabilising organisations and industries across the world. Mandiant, a US-based computer security firm, has released a 60-page report...
Feb 18, 2013
The Hubble telescope has beamed back images of two galaxies in the process of merging, appearing as a cosmic “flying V” formation. The “flying V” is actually two distinct objects – a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 2184. Both of the galaxies are seen...
