The dark side of the sun

There were no fireworks on the sun to welcome in the new year, and only a few C-class flares during the last day of 2014. Instead, the sun starts 2015 with an enormous coronal hole near the south pole. The image pictured here, captured on 1 January 2015 by the...

Business drives Web-scale IT

The era of digital business has arrived, in which successful companies are defined by their ability to respond quickly and effectively to transient business moments. Established approaches to IT infrastructure, operations and software development – still well suited...

Falcon attempts precision landing

Elon Musk’s SpaceX will attempt a precision landing on the next flight of its Falcon 9 first stage. For the first time, the stage will attempt to land on a custom-built ocean platform known as the autonomous spaceport drone ship. While SpaceX has already demonstrated...

Hyperloop will be crowdsourced

Crowdstorming is being used in the development of the Hyperloop system could revolutionise public transport systems. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, powered by JumpStartFund this week announced that it has passed two major milestones, bringing the company...

IS to take over MWeb Business users

Internet Solutions has announced that conditional approval for the proposed transaction that will see Dimension Data acquire MWeb Business, Optinet Service Division and the Optinet Network Division from MWeb Connect has been received from the South African Competition...

What we searched in 2014

Senzo Meyiwa, Oscar Pistorius and Ebola were were the search queries topping Google’s Trending Searches of 2014. Google’s 14th Annual Year in Search takes a look at 2014 through the collective eyes of the world on the web, offering a unique perspective on the...