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EkoStyl on KykNet provides tips to a greener lifestyle
Are consumers going back to grass-roots level and implementing changes to make their homes eco-friendly through inspirational renovation using age-old "green" ideas combined with modern technology? 22 May 2013 05:55
Tusker research goes social
[Janine Erasmus] Conservation-minded folk can participate in the Amarula Elephant Research Programme (AERP) through a new Facebook app that allows them to track their favourite jumbo, learn more about its habits, and share its movements with others, thereby raising awareness of the importance of protecting the magnificent beasts. 21 May 2013 08:51
Construction of MeerKat kicks off - Hanekom
CAPE TOWN: The construction of the 64-dish MeerKat satellite dishes - a precursor of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project - has commenced, the Minister of Science and Technology Derek Hanekom said on Thursday, 16 May 2013. 21 May 2013 08:48
Hydrogen fuel cells to be made in SA
Government is aiming to drive up demand for platinum by developing hydrogen fuel cell technology, Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom said on Thursday (16 May). 17 May 2013 10:51
LG launches LG Cloud service
LG Electronics (LG) has launched its own LG Cloud service in South Africa, which is now available on LG Smart World. The service, which was first launched in the US, South Korea and Russia last year, will roll out the TV-centric service in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, Central Asia and Latin America by the end of the month. 16 May 2013 11:56
Solar Capital signs R11.5 billion contract with DoE
Solar Capital has recently signed its second Independent Power Purchase Agreement with the Department of Energy. This second Solar Capital project, which will be built at De Aar in the Northern Cape, will mean an additional investment of R2.5 billion and will employ more than 700 people during construction and 200 thereafter. 16 May 2013 11:40
SOEs exploring set-asides for small firms, black industrialists
Minister of Public Enterprises Malusi Gigaba is considering putting in place set-asides from the growing procurement spend of state-owned enterprises for small businesses and black industrialists to help transform the economy. 16 May 2013 06:57
Matrix
Augmented Reality through Google coloured glasses
[Issued by Matrix] Google Glass will make use of Augmented Reality (AR) in grouping together already existing products such as maps and street views to culminate into 3D offerings and possibly live feeds. 13 May 2013 13:01
Amazon working on 3D screen for smartphone: report
NEW YORK: Amazon, long rumoured to be developing its own smartphone, is working on a screen that allows people to see 3D images without glasses, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, 9 May 2013. 13 May 2013 11:36
Changes to SA's immigration policy
[Wyndham Hartley] Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor has promised sweeping changes to South Africa's immigration regime to make it easier for foreign businesses and investors to come to the country and to improve competitiveness in the global skills market. 13 May 2013 11:26
Conference brings IPTV to South Africa
[Shamin Chibba] In the near future, South Africans may consult their medical doctors through their television sets at home, by using an internet-based technology called Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), says International Telecommunication Union (ITU) co-ordinator, Masahito Kawamori, who was in Johannesburg for the IPTV Conference. 13 May 2013 11:20
Mobile computing is here to stay
[Nitesh Devanand] Mobile computing is a growing phenomenon in the workplace with leading researchers already recognising the emergence of a 'post PC' era. As more people access IT applications and content by preference using their tablets, 'phablets' and smartphones, a whole new set of challenges and opportunities are emerging. 7 May 2013 09:52
Google Glass' real promise is among the elderly
[Tom Foremski] Google Glass has a promising future - although not in the markets that Google thinks it's targeting: urban early-tech adopters - they are a fickle bunch at best. 2 May 2013 11:12
Cape Town company makes breakthrough in transistor design
At the IDTechEx 2013 Printed Electronics Europe Conference and Exhibition in mid April, Cape Town-based PST Sensors announced the commercial release of the first new type of transistor in 65 years. 2 May 2013 07:21

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