Mar 12, 2013
South African employment prospects remain flat for Q2 of 2013, with job seekers in the wholesale and retail and the transport, storage and communication sectors likely to benefit from the most opportunities. According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey...
Mar 11, 2013
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa, a business unit of the country’s National Research Foundation, is joining the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy Astron and IBM in a four-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer...
Mar 8, 2013
The numbers of women in the science, technology and innovation fields (STI) are alarmingly low in the world’s leading economies – and are actually on the decline in many, including the US. For South Africa, results show that women have more opportunities...
Mar 7, 2013
African business leaders are more concerned with losing their competitive edge to their peers than leaders in the rest of the world. When questioned about the impacts of technology-led change, global business leaders are positive about the effects on creativity and...
Mar 6, 2013
Despite intense industry efforts to overcome market inertia, 2012 nonetheless ended on a sour note with global PC shipment volume shrinking 3,7% on the year. With limited initial traction from Windows 8 in the holiday season, and continued pressure from tablets, IDC...
Mar 5, 2013
More smartphones are forecast to be shipped globally than feature phones in 2013 – the first such occurrence in the mobile phone market on an annual basis. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors...
