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SA app developers stand chance to win $30k, place in international competition
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Mobile app stores to see 102bn downloads in 2013, $26bn in revenue
When it comes to mobile app stores, we’ve come to expect big numbers. Apple’s app store alone has 900 000 active apps and has…
Microsoft gives Bing a makeover, introduces contextual search
Microsoft seems pretty determined to make Bing work for it. The Redmond-based giant has given the search engine a makeover, including a new logo…
Nifty Disney trick turns your body into a speaker
This is pretty freaking cool. The egg heads at Disney’s research labs have come up with a new project that turns your body into…
Take a Google Street View tour of the factory where Moto X’s are spawned
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DStv adds social sharing feature to Drifta iOS app
Social TV is big. How big? Well, Twitter estimates that about 64% of its mobile subscribers use its service in front of the TV…
Language services company Rubric makes Firefox available in isiXhosa
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Facebook releases media tools to give broadcasters access to its data
Looks like Facebook’s not done “borrowing” tools and features from other social networks. Not by a long way. Today the billion-user strong social platform…
Check out Elon Musk’s real life ‘Iron Man’ gesture interface [Video]
It’s fairly common knowledge that billionaire innovator Elon Musk inspired the Tony Stark character in Iron Man but as it turns out, inspiration is…
George Bush Snr accidentally emails Mandela death statement
The office of former US president George HW Bush has been left red-faced after it accidentally posted that South African statesman Nelson Mandela had…
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