Display figures bode well for notebooks

US manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard substantially increased their orders for notebook panel displays in February to meet upcoming shipment targets, which helped to boost overall notebook panel shipments the same month, according to an IHS LCD Shipment Database...

Adobe drops boxed products

Adobe is to move away from boxed products entirely, and will make its Creative Suite – to be known as Creative Cloud – available only on a subscription model. The company has said it will not release new versions of the packaged suite, which includes InDesign,...

Aerial ballet show from Mango

Mango and the Johannesburg-based SA Mzansi Ballet (SAMB) company will collaborate in a world-first ballet performance at the Swartkops Air Show outside Pretoria/Tshwane on Saturday 11 May 2013.  A Mango new-generation Boeing 737-800, skippered by Presidential Baobab...

IBM debuts atomic movie

Scientists from IBM have unveiled the world’s smallest movie, made with one of the tiniest elements in the universe: atoms. Named A Boy and His Atom, the Guinness World Records-verified movie used thousands of precisely placed atoms to create nearly 250 frames of...

SA teachers not top of the class

South African foundation phase teachers are woefully unprepared to teach youngsters the basics of interpretation and evaluation, as they lack these skills themselves. This is one of the findings of the National Report 2012 on the State of Literacy Teaching and...

SA users at higher risk from malware

South Africans have a higher-than-average risk of having their computers infected and their data compromised by malicious code, like viruses and spyware, than most people in the world. The global ratio of e-mail-borne viruses in e-mail traffic is around one in every...