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…
Steve Jobs’ original Apple-1 computer expected to fetch $500k at auction
In 1976 at the age of 21, Steve Jobs sold an Apple-1 computer to Charles Ricketts from his parents’ garage in California. This is…
South African city domain names now open to the public
Starting today, companies have an opportunity to gain effective branding by having a domain of the city their business is based in. This of…
Daredevil Nik Wallenda walks a tightrope without harness or net
Nik Wallenda, an extreme sportsman, walked between three skyscrapers on a high-wire hundreds of feet off the ground in downtown Chicago on Sunday night….
This Dutch student is building an ambulance drone
Drones have a bad reputation, an almost irredeemable bad reputation even when proposed to be put to good use. The bad boy reputation is…
Google fined for capturing a woman’s cleavage on Street View
Google has been fined 2 250 Canadian dollars for capturing a woman’s cleavage with its Street View cameras. Google’s Street View cars roam public…
Mobile subscriptions and SMS messaging on the rise in Kenya
Kenya’s mobile phone subscriptions grew by 5.6% to 32.2-million at the end of the fourth quarter ending June 2014. This translates into a mobile…
Google is developing a nanoparticle pill that will detect cancer, heart disease
Google’s quest to disrupt the health industry just got properly serious. While everyone else is fiddling around wearables and apps, Google is allowing people…
Facebook’s Internet.org app rolls-out to Tanzania
Multinational telecommunications company Tigo has announced that it has teamed up with Facebook to provide millions of Tanzanians with affordable internet and free access…
Airtel Kenya to offer Kenyans free access to Twitter
Kenyan social media users on prepaid mobile devices have received an early gift this festive season. Airtel Kenya has announced that it is offering…
More users than China has people: 3 key points from Facebook’s Q3 report
Mark Zuckerberg has not been, contrary to the latest reporting, spending all his hours learning mandarin. He has also been, if anything is to…
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