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…
#5GumExperience 2013: socially-driven music experience set to return
Check this out. Chewing gum brand 5Gum has a penchant for using social and social only to promote its music experiences. By the looks…
New Google X Lab ‘moonshot’ to be revealed next month
Google is set to unveil a new “moonshot” project from its X Lab division next month, although the only thing we know about it…
Big Data loses its hipster shackles, is set to go mainstream
The term Big Data has been thrown around pretty willfully over the past couple of years. It makes sense too, after all, petabytes of…
Al Jazeera English launches news apps for Android Tablet and BlackBerry 10
Al Jazeera Media Network today launched new Android tablet and BlackBerry 10 applications. The Qatar-based news organisation claims the new apps provide users with…
Google expands StreetView in the EU, including 200 new Russian cities
Google today announced that it had expanded its European Street View imagery in what is says is a bid to make it “easier than…
Want to quote R140m for a website? Here’s the right way to do it
This is clever. Anyone reading about the R140-million a South African provincial government spent on its website was probably left wondering how it could…
Facebook News Feed redesign: more content specific, bigger ads, photos
When Facebook unveils its redesigned News Feed tomorrow we can expect something that is more content-specific as well bigger photos and adverts. According to…
Google set to take on Amazon Prime with ‘Google Shopping Express’
Google is apparently set to take on Amazon Prime, with its own service called Google Shopping Express. Amazon Prime gives shoppers free two-day shipping…
SA music legend Miriam Makeba gets her own Google doodle
Google today marked what would have been songstress Miriam Makeba’s 81st birthday in the way it does best: with a doodle. Nicknamed Mama Africa,…
Harlem Shake gets bizarrely political in the Middle East
This is bizarre. Apparently the antagonism between Egyptian protesters and the Islamist regime has been taken to a new level with Harlem Shaking. Yup,…
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