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        CONTENTS                                                                   EDITOR

                                                                                   Hans van de Groenendaal
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        FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
        Claim to fame!                                                      3      ADVERTISING
                                                                                   Tarryn Bester
        TECHNOLOGY IN 10 SECONDS                                            3      Email: tarrynb@eiapublishing.co.za
                                                                                   Mark Yelland
        OPINION                                                                    Email: marky@nowmedia.co.za
        Cut the jargon if you want to deliver value against customer needs   4
                                                                                   COORDINATION
        MEASUREMENT                                                                Charmaine Manicom
        One-stop shop for metrology services in support of African trade    5      Email: charmainem@nowmedia.co.za
        Looksee launches first, free-to-use solar score for South African homes   7

        ROBOTICS                                                                   DESIGNER
        How virtual agents reduce the costs and improve the success of outbound campaigns   9  Adéle Gouws
        Robots to sanitise hospitals                                       10      Email: adele@dezignhq.co.za

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        There is more to an app than just outsourcing development          11      Travel & Trade Publishing (Pty) Ltd
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        EDGE COMPUTING
        The new edge is coming to transform the computing experience       13      PUBLISHER
        Red Hat announces intent to reach net-zero operational greenhouse gas emissions by 2030   14  Anton Marsh
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        ELECTRONICS
        Simple methods for limiting current using an integrated MOSFET     15
        How to easily achieve superior audio performance with plug and play digital-input class D amplifiers  17  Part of the
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        AMATEUR RADIO
        Lack of recognition impedes amateur radio’s contribution to technology   19
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        TECHNOLOGY
        Technology trends affecting the security sector in 2023            21

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         Metrology services to  Virtual agents improve success  Limiting current using   we do. It continues to be developed and
         support African trade of outbound campaigns  integrated MOSFET
                                         miniaturised.

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