ZANews is one of the most innovative and ground-breaking media properties to have come out of South Africa for many years. The satirical, political puppet show is the brainchild of producer Thierry Cassuto and cartoonist Zapiro. After the show was denied a national TV platform by the SABC, the producers ...

British tycoon Richard Branson on Tuesday will unveil a digital magazine tailored for viewing on Apple's popular iPad tablet computers, according to press conference invitations.Word of Branson's plans to publish "Project" for delivery on iPads came shortly after Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch hinted that his News Corp. empire will ...

Many journalists still balk at the idea of Twitter. They’re put off by the noise, the loud celebrities and the gushing streams of irrelevance. Of course there are pros and cons to the micro-blogging platform, but whatever way you want to look at it, it's undeniable that Twitter is a ...

The latest US search engine rankings from comScore show that only Google and Microsoft grew their market share in October while Yahoo!, Ask and AOL all lost share.Top Search EnginesMicrosoft's Bing outpaced Google in October, adding 0.3 percentage points to 11.5% market share.Google increased its lead by 0.2 percentage ...

A couple of years ago you didn’t hear the words "Africa" and "innovation" paired up quite as much as you do today. But just look at my schedule for the coming week, and you'll see how much things have changed.On Saturday I speak at TEDxAntananarivo in Madagascar, and my ...

Museum authorities at the site of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday said they were launching an online study programme to teach people about the Holocaust.Museum spokesman Pawel Sawicki said that the pilot project would begin Thursday, and would be divided into two parts.One will examine the ...

Billions of people use social media everyday, all over the world. Once you start using networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube often enough, you start to notice that people share similar (and often rather annoying) online media habits, and can be categorised into common personality types.Which ones do you ...

After the runaway success of "District 9", sc-fi lovers have been waiting with bated breath to find out what director Neill Blomkamp will do next. Time Magazine even named Blomkamp as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2009. Meanwhile Blomkamp has received the go-ahead for his new sci-fi ...

Amid all the recent news on new smart TV products from Sony and Logitech, the message from analysts and researchers who study humans for a living seems to be: Don't make TVs into PCs.Logitech last month became the first company to unveil a set-top device running Google's new Android-based TV ...

Being able to make something doesn’t mean you’re an entrepreneur, being able to make a business out of it does. I’ve met many great developers across Africa, some who would be considered "top of the class" in any country in the world. Unfortunately, some confuse starting a company for running ...