During the fourth quarter of 2010, InfoTrends and the North American Publishing Company (NAPCO) conducted a Web-based questionnaire with print providers regarding their opinions on print revenue/volume trends, paper grades, runnability issues, and paper attributes. Due to the growing importance of environmental sustainability, some of the questions were directly related to “green” initiatives.   The respondents indicated that 35% of its paper consumption is recycled. In-plants have a higher consumption of recycled paper compared to [...]

Fasmicro runs a hands on training lab where participants acquire the skills required to create world class Android Applications. This programme is aimed at everybody, irrespective of your programming skill level.  At the end of our training, all participants would be able to develop fully functioning mobile applications that target the Android platform   Course Outline Day 1 – First Steps Introducing Android App Inventor Instruction Blocks Application Components Inventing an App Day 2 – [...]

  Skiller, a game developer, offers a mulitplayer  and social SDK which is available on Android and J2ME!  Developers can  can create true cross-platform multiplayer games based on them. It is simply develop your game, integrate it with the Skiller platform and…you can earn $1000. Skiller, a leading provider of social mobile gaming platforms, has released its Java SDK, which joins the previously successful Android SDK release, enabling game developers to introduce new social dimension in [...]

The original Palm Pre was a big success and won a lot of respect within the mobile phone industry for its WebOS operating system. While many felt this was truly a real step forward in mobile phone operating systems which introduced new concepts such as true multitasking, it was not available on non-Palm handsets. By the time the Pre 2 was due for release, manufacturer Palm was experiencing a lot of difficulties and was eventually [...]

In the second quarter of 2011, Apple catapulted into the No. 1 position in the global smartphone market after Nokia posted a 31% decline in shipments, according to a new report by IHS iSuppli.   Nokia’s woes in the smartphone market are the result of a double whammy of rising competitive pressures on the outside—and struggles with its corporate strategy on the inside.   The Symbian software platform used by Nokia simply isn’t competitive against [...]

The Department of Information Systems, situated in the Faculty of Commerce, is seeking to appoint up to three full-time permanent Lecturers/Senior Lecturers. The incumbents will be expected to conduct and support research, teach, have a strong work ethic and function as part of a dynamic and diverse team.   Key performance areas are: Teaching: teach a cognate area in information systems. We are looking particularly for motivated people who can teach large classes in our [...]

The global market for rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles (EV) is expected to reach new heights in the next 10 years, growing to $54 billion by 2010, up from $35 billion in 2010, says IHS iSuppli.   By 2015, lithium-ion batteries will be the leading technology occupying 55 percent of the market. Lead-acid will have 31 percent of the market, NiMH batteries will be 6 percent of the market and 1 percent will be NaS [...]