The ResearchBrief for today is forward looking from newspaper executives who identify the current trends they believe will have an impact on the future of businesses. 16 Jan 2008
Cadbury P.S., one of South Africa's favourite chocolate brands, is spreading the lurv in 2008, kicking the year off with an exciting and interactive competition that invites South Africans to ‘holla yo lurv'. 16 Jan 2008
This is the new Sahara Digital Camera, which the company says is a complete digital hand-held camera solution to allow the user to record and store material in both photo/still shot and motion video format. 16 Jan 2008
The announcement of the Centres of Expertise (CoE) Pilot Program at The Innovation Hub, Africa's first internationally accredited Science Park, includes a Call for Proposals from prospective consortiums to promote collaboration between industry, research, academic institutions and government in projects from the Aerospace, Information Communications Technology (ICT), and Biotechnology sectors. 16 Jan 2008
The most overlooked open source security vulnerabilities, according to Palamida researchers, occur in Apache Geronimo, JBoss Application Server, Libtiff, Net-SNMP and ZLIB. "The most popular projects appear in every test. This always surprises companies. There is from three to 10 times the use of open source code [in software enterprise uses] than companies realize," said Theresa Bui-Friday, cofounder of Palamida. 16 Jan 2008
By now, the case for SaaS is not only well established, but also growing stronger, as analysts incorporate intangible benefits into their ROI models. So, it is welcome to hear at least one blogger question whether the model is applicable to every situation. 16 Jan 2008
What triggered such impressive gains in home network adoption in Europe? The answer is in the patterns of growth. The number of households gaining a home network between 2004 and 2006 far exceeded the number stating an intention to do so at the beginning of 2005. This pattern held true across the world. 16 Jan 2008
Distell is to strengthen ties with US wine and spirits importer AV Brands in an effort to increase focus on the US market. The closer relationship means that in addition to representing two of Distell's global lifestyle wine brands, Two Oceans and Obikwa, AV Brands is to carry Amarula Cream Liqueur and Durbanville Hills, formerly with Brown-Forman. The announcement was made last week by Don Gallow, head of the Stellenbosch-based producer's international operations. 15 Jan 2008
Being able to see a readout of power consumption can lead to consumers using significantly less electricity, according to results from a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory experiment in the United States. In a similar PNNL study, home appliances equipped with technology to briefly shut them down automatically at peak moments of consumption also played a part in noticeably cutting participants' electricity bills. 15 Jan 2008
Touch-screens have been around for years, but gadget-makers have begun putting them into more and more devices. The iPhone played a big part in the trend by incorporating its multi-touch technology in a smartphone. It's not just handsets that are getting into the act, however. Cameras, gaming units and tablet PCs are only a few of the categories in which touch is growing in presence. 15 Jan 2008
USA - Toyota Motor will produce a small fleet of plug-in hybrids by 2010, the Japanese auto maker's president, Katsuaki Watanabe, said Sunday. 15 Jan 2008
There is a need for the IT manager to look beyond the ‘Green' marketing hype of the vendors and get to grips with the environmental challenges being faced by the organisation and the IT industry. 15 Jan 2008
Windows Vista users who have been chomping at the bit to join the beta test of its first service pack (SP1) can now download the software thanks to an apparent reversal late last week by Microsoft. 15 Jan 2008
Sahara Computers, local suppliers of digital lifestyle technology, has released its Extreme Gaming PC, built with the latest in high-end graphic, sound and processor technology. 15 Jan 2008
In Mpumalanga, 25 matriculants have been given bursaries to study towards various careers in the fields of agriculture and land administration. 15 Jan 2008
Rising oil prices, the spread of the sub-prime credit issue in international markets and the slow down in the US economy are all taking their toll on the confidence of the world's consumers. SA consumer's cite their main concern as the rise in interest rates. 15 Jan 2008
Just about every company has people development on their agenda for 2008. How are you going to implement it? Well I have termed it the 3 Ts of people development – Training, Talking and Teaching – which will assist you in obtaining this objective. 15 Jan 2008
Armed attacks in rest of the country rocket as crime spreads beyond Gauteng, writes Henriëtte Geldenhuys. 15 Jan 2008
Far from keeping the bread price at the present level, given the fact that they were recently fined R99 million for their role in colluding on the price of bread, Tiger Brands was expected yesterday to raise the price by about 40c a load, adding to the already heavy burden on the poor. And another price rise could be in the offing. 15 Jan 2008
Dettol tasked ComutaNet to develop a new taxi branding campaign to promote the brand's new range of deodorants and build immediate and substantial brand awareness amongst the commuter market segment. 14 Jan 2008
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