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The Vodafone Innovation Centre, in Midrand, has won the Mail & Guardian’s Greening the Future award in the “Innovations in renewables” category. The building, situated at Vodacom’s head office, in Midrand, has a Six-Star Green Star rating, making it one of the greenest in Africa. The centre is carbon-neutral and designed for water, energy and emissions savings. – ITWeb
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Two South African entrepreneurs have been selected as winners of the Knight News Challenge. Haroon Meer and Mohamed Nanabhay created signalnoi.se, a Web service which tracks the progress of stories through media and social networks.

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BOS Ice Tea has partnered with Cow Africa, a digital marketing, brand activation and PR company, to introduce a Twitteractivated vending machine. According to Cow Africa, the machine is a world first. The machine dispenses a free can of BOS Ice Tea when tweets are posted with a unique hashtag. To activate the machine, users must tag @Bos and include the hashtag ‘#BosTweet4T’. – ITWeb
Ministries that engaged in the inaugural ICT Indaba recently set a target of delivering broadband to 80% of African citizens by 2020.

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The Samsung Galaxy SIII was officially unveiled in SA recently, at an event in Sandton. The SIII is the highly-anticipated successor to the Galaxy SII. While the device has already been available from select Vodacom and MTN stores, Samsung says the handset will now be available nationally. The handset has a recommended retail price of R7 999. – ITWeb

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