Today sees our last newsletters for 2012, with the first of our new industry newsletters to be published on 15 January 2013, but we will keep on updating the new industry portals over the festive season.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support; our subscribers across all our portals continue to grow; in fact, in our new industries alone, we are now closing in on 70,000 subscribers, and for that we thank you.
We want to wish all of you a very enjoyable end-of-year break and - assuming the world doesn't end on Friday (You've heard about the predictions around the Mayan calendar, right?) - we wish you a highly successful 2013.
All the best from the Bizcommunity team!
Rod Baker: Content Director
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The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) announced South Africa's very first Student Cluster Challenge winners. The glittering awards ceremony was held at the Durban International Convention Centre recently. 
The Wireless Access Providers' Association (WAPA) feels that the introduction of Lite-Licensing, which is currently being trialled and employed by progressive institutions internationally, as an alternative wireless spectrum management approach, could benefit South Africa. 
The opening of two new Vodacom outlets in Jozini and Manguzi this week will see communities in the Umkhanyakude District Municipality gain unprecedented access to telecommunications and connectivity. 
Facebook has started rolling out new privacy controls that will make it easier for users to ask friends to remove objectionable pictures. The software will be rolled out next week. 
LONDON, UK: The global mobile advertising market will generate revenues of US$12.8bn in 2013, growing from US$8bn in 2012, according to the latest research published by Informa Telecoms & Media. 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A federal jury last week found Apple guilty of infringing smartphone call handling and camera patents held by a licensing firm in which rivals Sony and Nokia hold stakes. 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: US Google users on the prowl for erotic images needed to be more explicit from Thursday (13 December) after the search engine was tuned to avoid delivering pornographic results for "ambiguous" queries such as "boobs." 
RESTON, US: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: The shift to smartphones and tablets became a landslide this year, crushing the desire for laptop computers and pressurising manufacturers to adapt to the mobile Internet era. 
NEW YORK, US: Submit your website, app, blog, video, ad, game or social media campaign to the IMA Interactive Media Awards. The 2012 entry deadline is Monday, 31 December. (Mobile, tablet and desktop are all eligible.) 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Yahoo! said on Tuesday (11 December) it was revamping its email for the Web and mobile devices in a move aimed at streamlining the service and making its look consistent across various platforms. 
Judge Lameck N. Mukasa of the Criminal Division of the High Court of Uganda has declared that the criminal summons alleging tax evasion against the senior management and directors of MTN Uganda is null and void. 
Proposed amendments to the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) Act, have been strongly criticised by industry commentators who say it will erode the independence of the regulator. 
