Search for dark energy is on

The largest ever search for supernovae – exploding stars up to 10-billion times brighter than the Sun – is beginning this August. For the next five years, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) will look for these cosmic explosions, which can be used to measure precisely the...

Intdev scoops MWeb Business partner award

Johannesburg-based Intdev Internet Technologies has been named as MWeb Business’ National Channel Partner of the Year for 2012/2013. The company also won the Gauteng Regional Partner of the Year award. The MWeb Business partner awards were presented by Zuraida Smail,...

Tarsus upbeat on Windows 8 adoption

Resellers looking to assist clients with an upgrade programme to Windows 8 can be assured that the volume of devices now in the channel is in line with vendor supply, according to Tarsus Technologies. Tarsus’ Microsoft product manager, Andrew Firman, says that Windows...

Security spend remains ‘high priority’

Security is expected to remain an IT budget priority in the coming years and, despite the effects of the recession, projected spending on security infrastructure is expected to reach $86-billion in 2016. This according to Asgar Mahomed, MD of Esquire Technologies, who...

Altech ISIS confident about SKA project

South Africa’s winning bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) was announced to much fanfare, providing a platform to showcase local talent and ability that arguably hasn’t been seen since Dr Chris Barnard performed the first heart transplant in the 1960s. And it...

How life on Earth will end

In 2-billion years’ time, life on Earth will be confined to pockets of liquid water deep underground, according to Jack O’Malley-James, a PhD astrobiologist at the University of St Andrews. New research also suggests that although the hardiest forms of life may have a...