Strikes claim nearly 200 in 13 years
Some 181 fatalities occurred in strike violence between January 1999 and October 2012. A further 313 people were injured and over 3 058 arrests made during the period. This is according to figures compiled by the South African Institute of Race Relations using print...Automotive LCD shipments to soar
Global shipments of automotive full-colour liquid crystal displays (LCD) will nearly double during the four-year period from 2012 to 2016, partly propelled by a US mandate on rear-view cameras that will result in expanding use in both midrange and economy-class...Smartphones boom in developing markets
Canalys’ latest smartphone forecasts show a clear rise in the importance of developing markets, and markets such as Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and China (BRIIC) will drive much of the volume growth in the global market in 2013 and beyond. In total, developing...Revolutionising data centre construction
As a CFO, CEO or CIO with a data centre (or possibly several) in the organisation, users are undoubtedly aware that they devour electricity like small cities and that the up-front capital investment, cost of expansion and re-development is somewhere between painful...