Facebook looks to the skies for connectivity

Facebook has announced a plan which could use aeroplanes and satellites to provide Internet connectivity. The company’s new Connectivity Lab boasts a team that is working on new aerospace and communication technologies to advance the Internet.org mission of improving...

Hubble shows comet anatomy

NASA has released an image of a comet that, on 19 October, will pass within 84 000 miles of Mars – less than half the distance between Earth and our moon. The image on the left, captured on 11 March by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows comet C/2013 A1,...

Tshivhase resigns from Datacentrix board

Takalani Tshivhase, the Pinnacle Holdings director at the centre of bribery allegations, yesterday resigned as a non-executive director of Datacentrix. Datacentrix has issued a statement explaining the Tshivhase was appointed as a non-executive director of Datacentrix...

Microsoft adds more mobility, cloud services

Microsoft is making a big play in the cloud and mobile world, yesterday unveiling a number of new applications and services to enable this move. The company announced several new and updated applications and services including Microsoft Office for iPad and free Office...

Models for improving customer engagement

Engaged customers are usually better advocates of the brand and are more loyal and more profitable, according to research by Gartner. Gartner has identified four underlying attributes that can help customer relationship management (CRM) leaders to improve their level...

Fast-growing RFID to hit $9,2bn in 2014

The RFID market – including tags, readers, software and services for passive and active RFID – will grow from $7,88-billion in 2013 to $9,2-billion in 2014. Most of the growth is due to active RFID/RTLS systems, interrogators and tags, in terms of total money spent,...