Eskom has warned of a “very high” risk of rolling blackouts around the country, but was doing everything it could to avert it. “We are working very closely with our large customers to see if they can reduce their load, but the risk is very high. We are doing our
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It’s the stuff of corporate legend. The Googleplex in Mountain View, California, about 40 minutes drive along Route 101 south of San Francisco, is the home of Internet search giant Google and more than 10 000 of its employees. Last Friday, TechCentral had the opportunity
Consumers can look forward to even cheaper broadband prices, with many new undersea cables set to come online within the next 18 months. It is unclear how much of a decrease is likely, but talk in the industry is of a 10% to 20% drop in local prices
In Douglas Adams’s famous Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series of science-fiction books, interstellar species use Babel fish — “small, yellow, leech-like” creatures that feed on “brain-wave energy” — to translate speech in real time. A team of developers at Google is
Just as every hardware manufacturer has leapt onto the tablet computer bandwagon with varying degrees of success, so, too, they’re racing to get ultraportable laptop computers to market. Toshiba’s latest offering, the Portégé R830, offers great competition in terms of price and features, even
Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has suffered a 25% fall in fourth quarter profits while one of its biggest rivals in the smartphone market, Korean electronics giant Samsung, has turned in a profit improvement of more than 70% for the same
We can look forward to another banner year for the gaming industry with new hardware incoming in the form of the Wii U and the PlayStation Vita as well as a strong slate of games due for release throughout 2012
We can look forward to another banner year for the gaming industry with new hardware incoming in the form of the Wii U and the PlayStation Vita as well as a strong slate of games due for release throughout 2012. Here are six of our most anticipated titles
Despite giant strides in the right direction in the past few years in opening up SA’s telecommunications market — making it more competitive and transparent — there are still pockets of monopolistic behaviour. One of these is the application-to-person (A2P) SMS market in SA, which is worth more than R1bn/year in revenue for the mobile network
Codecademy is a website that hopes to teach the world to code using interactive games and cumulative lessons. Now the company has launched a project called Code Year that intends to get people to sign up for a weekly coding class as a new year’s resolution and has signed up more than 124 000 people in