Sea ice thins as Earth warms
New research led by NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle, confirms that springtime snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years, by about a third in the Western Hemisphere and by half near Alaska. The new study, published this...Traditional AD doesn’t migrate to mobile
The traditional methods used to define and develop desktop applications will not work with mobile application development (AD), according to Gartner. Gartner says that as demand from business units in enterprises puts increasing pressure on IT organisations to deliver...SA sees decline in informal businesses
There has been a massive decline in the number of informal businesses in South Africa, according to the 2013 Survey of Employers and the Self-Employed (SESE). In 2001 as many as 2,3-million people were running informal businesses, but this number decreased to...Flash moves to the mainstream
Flash-based storage continues to move from being an expensive niche technology targeted at a few workloads to a more mainstream technology. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the broader availability of products, a growing level of familiarity with...Finalists announced for R1m innovation prize
The South African Breweries (SAB) Foundation has selected the finalists in its fourth annual Social Innovation Awards 2014. They will compete for the R1-million first-place prize. The pro-poor innovations range from products and processes, which are selected according...