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Facebook announces App Centre, just like everyone else
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Storm warnings: the next big Kenyan mobile innovation?
Some pretty impressive mobile innovations have come to the world’s attention after Kenyan success. MPesa and Ushahidi come to mind immediately. Now a couple…
400m mobile phones to be green by 2017 [Report]
Tech’s going green. It has to. Hell, the world has to. The kind of action we’re seeing now with Facebook and Google’s data centres…
Twitter brings mobile web version up to scratch
Most of us are now used to the ‘new new Twitter’ which launched late last year. Anyone who accesses the social network from a…
Win Star Wars: Kinect with Gearburn!
Let’s give away a copy of Star Wars: Kinect! Entry details are below. How to enter: Tweet @gearburn your favourite Star Wars quote. That’s it!…
Adobe CS6 ships today, Creative Cloud later this week
Digital creatives delight. Adobe has announced that Creative Suite 6 is available as of today, with Creative Cloud to follow later this week. The…
Live your brand at IMC Cape Town
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Google admits Street View engineer told colleagues about collecting Wi-Fi data
A Google engineer who wrote a program that collected private data from people’s unsecured Wi-Fi networks told at least two colleagues he had done…
Egypt to supply 10k university students with tablets
Egypt is set to give out free tablets to some 10 000 university students. According to Cairo-based newspaper Al-Ahram, the project is a collaboration…
Zuckerberg joins Viddy, sparks Instagram comparisons
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has joined video-sharing service Viddy, potentially providing a massive boost to the company. Under the username Zuck, the young billionaire…
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