Some 20 renowned speakers will take to the stage when WordCamp Cape Town 2011 kicks off on the 15th of September.WordCamps are community-organised conferences, where discussions take place surrounding the blogging platform, WordPress. This will be Cape Town's second WordCamp to date.The conference is popular for allowing users to share ideas, learn about the challenges associated with Wordpress and participate in its development. WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg organised the first WordCamp in San Francisco in 2006. He was also ...

Samsung has filed a complaint in France which says that Apple's iPhone and the iPad tablets infringe on its patents.According to a spokesperson for Samsung, "The complaint focuses on three technology patents, and not on the design of the tablet."Sources say that the complaint revolves around three Samsung UMTS patents as well as the iPhone 4, 3GS and 3 models. Also included in the lawsuit are both iPads. Universal Mobile Telecommunications services or UMTS is a 3G standard ...

Inventive entrepreneurs all over the world know what it's like to have that "one great idea". They know that it could change the world if they could just get a helping hand. If only someone would give them a little money to make a start in producing their product. Popular Mechanics aims to do just that with its annual "Inventor of the Year" award.The renowned science and technology magazine has challenged inventors from all walks of life to ...

Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. These social networks we all know. However, they are not the only social networks striving for your attention.Memeburn's already looked at the 29 professional niche social networks you should know about, and we also have a list of our favourite offbeat social networks.This list, however, is the ultimate list of all: As many social networks as we can find. We've ranked them alphabetically picking the most popular to lead each letter.How many are you ...

The recent attack on the lesser-known certificate authority known as DigiNotar, and previously on Comodo, has security experts pondering the future of certificate-based encryption and authentication. For many people, SSL or what is now generally known as TLS is some arcane security measure that involves certificates and usually results in an 's' being appended to the protocol they are using.Occasionally, it raises its head when you visit a website and your browser notifies you that a certificate is not ...

The judgement delivered Monday in Julius Malema's hate-speech trial has sharply divided South African tweeters.The Equality court has found that the controversial ANC Youth League (ANCYL) President’s singing of an ANC revolutionary song containing the lyrics "dhubula ibhunu" (loosely translated to mean "shoot the boer") constitutes hate speech.Penned by Judge Collin Lamont, the ruling which has received attention from international news outlets, was unequivocal. He found that "The singing of the song by Malema constituted hate speech", and that "No ...

Imagine you’re somewhere fairly quiet. Your den on a Sunday afternoon. A cubicle in an empty office*. A hotel room in a strange city. You only have your phone to play music on, and it’s got a sucky built-in speaker. You don't want to wear headphones. Plug the Tunebug Vibe into its headphone socket and make the music player or phone's sound output a bazillion times better.Remembering that this massive, massive number of 'a bazillion' is calculated off a low ...

The events of September 11 2001 reverberated around the world. They affected everyone, American and non-American alike. It was to be expected, therefore, that various forms of social media would be flooded with memorials and remembrances as people marked the tenth anniversary of the fateful attacks.The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, recognising the power of technology, created an official application "as a guide to understanding 9/11 through the eyes of who witnessed the events".Similarly, the New York Times ...

Freemium is a business model that works by offering a product, such as software, at no cost while charging a rate for advanced features and services. Though ideas about the value of free offerings have been the source of much debate, it's important to brush past the trivia and look deeper and more critically at why some internet companies are successful at employing the Freemium model while others are not.There are different types of free strategies, but a key ...

South African cellular network Vodacom will now throttle the speeds of Blackberry users in a bid to curb the behaviour of those it claims "are abusing the service".According to Vodacom, such users will now face their connections being downgraded from 3G to 2G (GPRS or EDGE) once they hit 100MB or more. There is currently no known date of when the speed cap will come under effect. Users of Blackberry Enterprise Services will remain unaffected.A statement from Vodacom's official ...