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

Initiative to create digital jobs in Africa

Dr. Judith Rodin, president of The Rockefeller Foundation, on Monday, 13 May 2013, launched a new foundation initiative that will focus on Africa's youth and employment, Digital Jobs Africa. 14 May 2013 11:02

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

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

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

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

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

AccuWeather launches 30-Day Forecast

AccuWeather has launched 30-Day Forecast, which allows users of AccuWeather.com and the AccuWeather.com mobile website greater insight in planning trips, sporting events, and outdoor events in advance. 13 May 2013 11:39

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

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

Google, Time launch Timelapse showing planetary changes over 25 years

[Stuart Thomas] Google, Time Magazine, NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) have teamed up to create a portal showing how much the planet has changed over the past 25 years. 13 May 2013 11:31

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

Wits researcher names juvenile specimen of a new species of dinosaur in western China

[Issued by Wits University] A new species of theropod, or meat-eating dinosaur, an ancient ancestor of today's birds, has been named by newly appointed Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute Senior Researcher Dr Jonah Choiniere and a team of international researchers. 7 May 2013 10:36

Toyota Enviro Outreach scientists discover new species of plant

Scientists and students from the University of Johannesburg, the South African National Biodiversity Institute, University of Pretoria and University of Cape Town recently visited several floristically interesting sites in the arid Gariep and Upper Nama-Karoo regions of the Northern Cape. 6 May 2013 16:37