Cisco, Facebook to work together

Cisco has announced a collaboration with Facebook that helps businesses increase brand recognition and proactively target promotions and advertisements based on customer preferences and demographics using WiFi. The Cisco Connected Mobile Experience (CMX) with Facebook...

Massive growth for integrated storage

The worldwide integrated infrastructure and platforms market experienced an impressive 50,2% year-over-year factory value growth during the second calendar quarter of 2013 (2Q13), totalling $1,3-billion in system sales. According to the International Data Corporation...

Cape Town welcomes fibre network

Conduct Telecommunications has launched its first fibre-ready area in Cape Town. Having provisioned open-access fibre to several businesses in Claremont, Conduct plans to soon expand to commercial precincts in Stellenbosch, Westlake, Muizenburg, Tygerberg, Bellville...

Plastic is fantastic in electronics

Although Apple’s iPhone line is a latecomer to the plastic party – with the company introducing its first polycarbonate-enclosed model just last week – the use of plastic resin in the cellphone market is already a multibillion-dollar business, with...

Youngsters excel at Computer Olympiad

Yaseen Mowzer, a Grade 9 learner at Fairbairn College, Goodwood, Cape Town succeeded in beating all but one of the 4 747 entries in this year’s Standard Bank Programming Olympiad. He was beaten only by Gold Medal winner Guy Paterson-Jones, a Grade 12 learner at...