Mar 26, 2013
Google and its partners have today announced the launch of a TV White Spaces (TVWS) trial with 10 schools in the Cape Town area. White spaces are unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum. They offer the potential to improve Internet connectivity in the developing...
Mar 26, 2013
17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio has become an overnight multi-millionaire and one of Yahoo’s newest employees. UK student D’Aloisio has sold his news-reading app Summly to Yahoo for an estimated $30-million. The algorithmic app takes articles and shortens them to be read...
Mar 25, 2013
Cars are becoming smarter, with apps now embedded in vehicles which recognise their owners’ voices. A new report from Juniper Research has found that advancements in entertainment head-units and higher smartphone penetration will result in app capability reaching a...
Mar 25, 2013
Worldwide factory revenue for the high performance computing (HPC) technical server market increased by 7,7% year over year in 2012 to a record $11,1-billion, up from $10,3-billion in 2011, according to the newly released International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...
Mar 25, 2013
SAP is participating in a worldwide entrepreneurship support programme called Unreasonable at Sea. This is a business accelerator initiative that is taking 11 start-ups on a journey around the world by ship, stopping at various countries where entrepreneurs are given...
Mar 25, 2013
Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage vendor revenue totalled $6-billion in the fourth quarter of 2012, a 1,9% increase from revenue of $5,9-billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to Gartner. “The fourth quarter 2012 results represent...
