New polymers pack a punch

New polymers pack a punch

Scientists from IBM Research have successfully discovered a new class of polymer materials that can potentially transform manufacturing and fabrication in the fields of transportation, aerospace and microelectronics. Through the unique approach of combining high...

Customer-centric firms will thrive in future

Companies need to become customer-centric to meet new market expectations. This is one of the messages from an International Data Corporation (IDC) report, IDC MaturityScape: Social Business, designed to help companies assess competency and maturity in the use of...

Application infrastructure, middleware grows

The worldwide application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue market totalled $21,5-billion in 2013, a 5,6% increase from 2012, according to Gartner. “Application infrastructure and middleware projects are becoming the cornerstone of the digital...

Seasonal decline for storage sales

The worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) market was down -6,9% year-over-year, with nearly 19-million units shipped in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14). This is according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Personal and Entry Level...

Intel Science prize goes to cancer project

15-year-old Nathan Han of Boston has been awarded first place for developing a machine learning software tool to study mutations of a gene linked to breast cancer at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Using data from publicly available...

Fibre key to African connectivity

Kathy Gibson at SatCom, Sandton – Terrestrial and metro fibre will ultimately be the key solution to letting more consumers access bandwidth. To accomplish this, there are a number of investment models that can be followed – all of them presenting both...