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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Unmanned ocean gliders are collecting data 1,000m below the surface of the Southern Ocean and sending it back to climate scientists and oceanographers. 
Shale gas could provide an affordable feedstock for cleaner-burning gas-fired power plants in the country "if managed effectively and responsibly", consultancy Frost & Sullivan has said. 
Samsung Electronics has partnered SA online publishing company OnMag Online Publications to launch onTV, which brings together magazines, news, weather, games, and movie information and trailers - exclusively on the Samsung Smart TV range. 
2012 has had interesting technological advances: Vodacom and MTN have both announced the roll-out of 4G as South Africa heads towards full LTE mobile networks; fibre optics are becoming more accessible; and consumers have rushed to buy the iPad 3 and iPhone 5. 
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. 
