F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
OpenTenders fixes SMEs up with big corporate, government tenders
Co-founder of OpenTenders Madoda Khuzwayo estimates that there are as much as R1.3-trillion worth of tenders per being procured by government entities every year….
YouTube Kids debuts next week to focus on family entertainment, elearning
With a new app in the pipeline, YouTube is gearing up to tap into the online family entertainment sector, which is reportedly showing four…
Solvesting’s P2P lending wants to bridge SME investments in emerging markets
Hooked onto Africa’s strong growth, the continent has over the past few years been seeing a record high of foreign direct investment, peaking at…
District 9’s Neill Blomkamp will direct the next sci-fi horror Alien film
South African / Canadian filmmaker Neill Blomkamp — the director behind sci-fi jaw-droppers District 9, Elysium and soon-to-be-released Chappie — announced that he’ll direct the…
Patrick Meier on single-click volunteering, the good side of tech
“If you can click on a Facebook picture, you can be a digital humanitarian,” author and technologist Patrick Meier says. The old sentiment “Information…
HTTP is getting its first upgrade since 1999. Here’s what you can expect
While the web has gone through a lot of changes since it first came into existence in the early 1990s, the fundamental tech behind…
Impact Beyond Innovation: How Lumkani’s fire detection system is saving lives
Impact Beyond Innovation is an article series that features startups from Africa putting social good at the forefront of their business models. In 2013,…
These 5 South Africans have been shortlisted to go colonise Mars in 2024
South Africans Divashen Govender, Kobus Vermeulen, Adriana Marais, Edwin le Grange and Alexandra Doyle have been shortlisted as part of a group of 100…
Apple iWork, iCloud now available to everyone
Anyone with an Apple ID can now access productivity tools like Pages, Keynote and Numbers for iCloud, regardless of their device. This cross-pollination of…
5 tools that will remove crappy Valentine’s Day stuff from your browser
I’ve never been a big fan of Valentine’s Day. Not because it celebrates love and all that. I just hate the idea of commercialising…
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