Dec 8, 2014
Solar researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar power system into electricity – the highest efficiency ever reported. The world-beating efficiency was achieved in outdoor tests in...
Dec 8, 2014
The selfie is set to become passé within a few short years, and by 2017 will have been superseded by live video broadcasting. According to Gartner, video and visual technologies are becoming increasingly important for interacting with customers and each other. The...
Dec 8, 2014
Within the next five years, more than 90% of all Internet of Things (IoT) data will be hosted on service provider platforms as cloud computing reduces the complexity of supporting IoT “data blending”. International Data Corporation (IDC) made a number of...
Dec 8, 2014
The South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA) has been ordered to submit a new request for proposals (RFP) for a five-year social grant payment tender. In April, the Constitutional Court ordered that SASSA intiate a new tender process for the contract. Accordingly,...
Dec 8, 2014
The Film and Publications Board has released a draft policy seeking to regulate online content for comment to stakeholders. Although the document does not appear to have been widely distributed to interested parties, the deadline for comment is 28 February 2015....
Dec 8, 2014
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 4,8% year-over-year to $12,7-billion in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14). This is the second consecutive quarter that the...
