Apple announced it has sold 11,8m iPads since the company debuted the tablet in early March. The number reflects a 151% increase over iPad sales during the same quarter a year ago. The company released its third version of the iPad this quarter, starring the new “Retina” display (2048-by-1536 resolution), which quadruples the amount of pixels packed
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An application by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) for an interdict to stop the e-tolling of Gauteng’s major roads continues in the high court in Pretoria on Wednesday. Outa, trade union federation Cosatu and the Democratic Alliance were pulling out all the stops this week to try and have the system scrapped
Inside a low-rise building in a business park at Rock Hill, South Carolina, is a vision of the factory of the future. Several dozen machines are humming away, monitored from a glass-fronted control room by two people looking at computer screens. Some of the machines are the size of a car, others that of a microwave oven, but they all have
Using a 3D printer is like printing a letter; hit the print button on a computer screen and a digital file is sent to, say, an inkjet printer which deposits a layer of ink on the surface of a piece of paper to create an image in two dimensions. In 3D printing, however, the software takes a series of digital slices through a computer-aided design and
The high court in Pretoria will hear an application by the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) on Tuesday for an urgent interdict preventing Sanral from launching the e-toll system on Gauteng highways. “This [interdict] is … to give judges time to review arguments in the matter and then make a decision
Facebook’s amended US Securities & Exchange Commission documents filed on Monday revealed the social network is bigger than ever — 901m monthly active users, to be exact. At this rate of acceleration (there were 845m active users just a couple weeks ago), Facebook will have 1bn monthly active users strong before you know it
Intel’s just-unveiled Ivy Bridge processor family promises faster processing power and better graphics, thanks to a massively-enhanced integrated graphics system. The news has prompted some analysts to say that Ivy Bridge could mean doom for manufacturers of dedicated graphics cards, such as Nvidia and AMD, because Ivy Bridge is just that
Research in Motion (RIM), the company behind the ailing BlackBerry platform, has hired a law firm to help it with a company-wide restructuring plan aimed at making the company profitable again. The plan could include selling off resources, seeking joint ventures, or licensing its patents. After losing a significant portion of
The national treasury has applied to intervene in the Gauteng e-toll case to be heard by the high court in Pretoria this week. “There would be serious negative implications for future financing of roads and investment in public transport, were Sanral to be interdicted from implementing the toll collection system
In this episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson chat about last week’s big department of communications’ policy colloquium. We discuss whether anything will flow out of the event and the likely impact that communications minister Dina Pule and her director-general Rosey Sekese will have on the technology