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SA Solar Challenge
The Sasol SA Solar Challenge pulls into Bloemfontein today. The bi-annual event is dominated by two Japanese teams again this year – one of which plans to set a land speed record after the event at around 170km/h.
Teams take part in a 5400km 2 week trek. The South African teams have been having some teething problems – often completing the day’s leg on a trailer. Simon Gear has been part of the journey and joined us from the Free State.
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People was first published in 1936 and remains a bestseller to this day. The world and people have changed much since then, and there is now an updated version available taking the world of social media into account –an unavoidable place for winning friends and influencing people. The book will teach you how to lead change in the 21st century. Dale Carnegie believes that in this digital age making enduring connections is more challenging than In the past. This book hones in on how to best do so in a fast paced world.
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Simfy
More than a decade after iTunes changed the music landscape forever, South African labels are finally trying to play catch-up. Last year, for the first time, digital sales of music surpassed that of physical sales in the United States.
Simfy Africa is a new service that gives you access to digital music. Nokia has had a similar offering, but it was limited to a small amount of phone models and was never going to catch on. Simfy allows you, for a monthly fee, to gain access to 18 million different tracks. It’s available online, on your hard drive or your smartphone and tablet. For the first time ever, you can LEGALLY build a digital music collection.
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Apple win case against Samsung
Shares of Apple Inc climbed to an all-time high on Monday morning, after the iPhone maker won a bitter patent war against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd that may change the dynamics of the booming mobile computing market. Analysts said the win strengthened Apple's position ahead of the iPhone 5 launch and could cement its dominance in the market as companies using Google Inc's Android operating system - two-thirds of the global market - may be forced to consider design changes. Apple was awarded $1.05 billion in damages on Friday after a U.S. jury found the Korean company had copied critical features of the iPhone and iPad. The verdict could lead to an outright ban on sales of key Samsung products.
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Cheap tablets
In his latest column on gadget.co.za Arthur Goldstuck writes that Cheap tablet computers are flooding the market – but they can cost you if you don't choose carefully.
News of a tablet computer available through a South African “group buying” site for just R745 sent ripples of astonishment through the retail community this week. It was selling like hotcakes, partly because its value was claimed to be R1230.
However, the device, an All Winner A13 7” tablet with 512 MB of RAM, is a staple of cheap tablet web sites in China, where it sells for as low as $55 – less than R500. On a local auction site, a unit was recently sold for R800.
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