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…
NASA to host global hackathon aimed at fixing life on Earth and in space
NASA and IBM’s Bluemix cloud services are sponsoring a worldwide hackathon, The Space App Challenge. The hackathon aims to challenge participants to produce relevant…
Twitter stock rises amid Google takeover rumours
Where there is smoke, there is fire, the saying goes. And it holds any truth, fresh rumours of a Twitter acquisition may have more…
BuzzFeed goes literary, announces $12k emerging writers fellowship
BuzzFeed has announced that it will be offering US$12 000 fellowships to emerging writers. The selected writers will spend four months working with BuzzFeed…
2015 African Blogger Awards deadline extended
The 2015 African Blogger Awards is extending its deadline and will now accept entries until 16 April 2015. The competition is aimed at African…
YouTube’s VP9 codec has enabled users to watch 25bn hours of faster, better, buffer-free videos
YouTube has revealed that video buffering is no longer a thing. Thanks to the VP9 video codec, which is the default codec for YouTube’s…
Kenya’s internet access continues to experience growth
Kenya The Communications Authority of Kenya has revealed impressive data about Kenya’s internet access. According to them the number of internet users in the…
Someone has invented the Selfie Shoe to enable people to take a Shoefie
Earlier today we published a piece about selfies being banned on Table Mountain. Even with this move, and the other places that have banned…
Facebook’s Scrapbook gives parents a new way to archive their kid’s photos
Facebook is rolling out a new feature. The feature, Scrapbook, gives parents a simple and more organise way of uploading photos of their children,…
Apple’s reuse and recycling programme now accepts Android trade-ins
Apple has announced that its iPhone trade-in programme will now include select Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone smartphones. The trade-in programme, available both on…
The worldwide wearable market will ship 45.7m units in 2015, 126.1m units by 2019
Wearables remain a mystery. Pretty looking things, capable of doing everything and yet remain without a clearly defined purpose, terrible battery life, and dependent…
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