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SA’s Joule electric car: costly opportunities

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“Renewable energy, as a reaction to peak oil and climate change, is probably the most important economic boom that will occur in our lifetimes.” This quote from Craig Shields prefaced a sales pitch for the Joule

Telkom’s 8ta to offer per-second billing

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Telkom’s new mobile operator, 8ta, will introduce per-second billing for prepaid customers from 15 May. Until now, calls were billed per-minute. “All new prepaid customers will be billed on a

Penny auctions with a text twist

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Cape Town start-up Yastic has taken SMS technology and combined it with online “penny auctions” to bring text-based bidding to SA. Founder and CEO Richard Craib says using SMS to submit bids for products

Points demerit system ready to roll

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The technology behind the controversial traffic demerit project, also called the administrative adjudication of road traffic offences (Aarto) system, is ready to go, says Tebogo Mphuti, CEO of Tasima

Full Android Market coming to SA

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The full Android Market, including paid-for applications, is coming to SA and 98 other markets around the world, Google announced at its I/O conference in the US last night. The market will be available in 26 African countries

Dot bomb 2.0?

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When does a market go from being a “growth sector” to a bubble? As with falling in love, it’s hard to put an exact date on the event. And, just like a love affair, a bubble is marked by growing excitement, lavish spending

Has Ballmer gone bananas?

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Tuesday’s announcement by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that it will buy Skype for a whopping US$8,5bn hasn’t been universally welcomed. Many critics are questioning the logic of the deal, with some saying

Open source is more secure – Borenstein

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Open-source software, where software code is open to inspection by anyone, is inherently more secure than proprietary software developed by companies like Microsoft. That’s the view of Nathaniel Borenstein