Rectron, one of South Africa’s leading ICT and consumer electronics distributors, today released its financial results for the fiscal year ending 30th June 2010.

The company’s results have shown an increase of 8, 41 percent in turnover at R 1  486 billion, with profits increasing by 16,65 percent to R51, 4 million – more than double that of its six months results. [Read more →]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oracle Corp has offered a job to Mark Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co who resigned amid a scandal involving inaccurate expense receipts related to a female contractor, according to a source familiar with the situation.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Craigslist.com has dropped its “adult services” listings, which have become the target of U.S. state attorneys general who say the much-visited online classified ad site is not doing enough to quash prostitution.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc said on Friday it was the target of an investigation by the Texas Attorney General’s office into the fairness of its search engine rankings.

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Concerns over Israeli access to BlackBerry data, and the use of the device by the United States to spy on the United Arab Emirates are behind the Gulf state’s moves to curb the smartphone, Dubai’s police chief said.

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South African archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of human-made stone-tipped arrows, 64 000-year-old stone tools – still with traces of blood and bone – that push the development of bow-and-arrow technology back 20 000 years and throw light on humanity’s cognitive development.
• South Africa’s mammal-like croc discovery

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics’ first tablet computer, the Galaxy Tab, will go on sale in two weeks, it said on Thursday, turning up the heat on Apple Inc’s iPad.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple Inc, according to people familiar with the matter.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hewlett-Packard Co won the bidding war to buy data storage company 3PAR Inc for $2.4 billion, as rival Dell Inc bowed out on Thursday.

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Panasonic Corp is aiming to grab a 50 percent share of the European 3D television market this year as demand outstrips expectations and the technology wins converts worldwide, its head of Europe said on Thursday.

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Microsoft announced that the highly anticipated Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has been released to manufacturing on Wednesday, a major milestone for the project.

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Facebook revenue estimates have been all over the place for 2010 – from less than a billion ranging up to nearly $2 billion. eMarketer recently estimated $1.28 billion, for example.

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Can’t say whether this is authentic or not , but Blu-ray.com is reporting they have a source that says the AVATAR 3D blu-ray will be distributed starting this December 1 , bundled with Panasonic 3DTVs only. [Read more →]

3D sounds with the Google Earth Plug-in Paul over at PlanetInAction is at it again. [Read more →]

South Africa’s rural communities may soon have access to a new, greener form of transport, following the recent launch of the country’s first hydrogen-powered bicycle.
• World’s first hybrid sports car in SA

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