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Brazil sues Twitter over traffic cop alerts
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780+ viruses target online banking daily – top antivirus company
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Google+ lets in teens, beefs up safety
Google’s nascent social effort, Google+, has opened up to teenagers and beefed up its safety features. The move is widely believed to be a…
YouTube offers big cash prize to budding filmmakers
Everyone’s got a story to tell, so the old saying goes. It seems YouTube believes it too. The world’s most popular video-sharing site is…
Apple worth more than Greece, South Africa
In 2011, Apple briefly passed Exxon Mobil to become the world’s most valuable company. In the wake of the tech company announcing plans to…
Google launches Woza Online: Free websites for SA businesses
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#FactsWithoutWikipedia climbs the Twitter trends amidst SOPA protest
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How important is tech at university? [Infographic]
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Getting to grips with patents [Infographic]
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