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…
Child friendly content now available on Kindle
Back in September Kindle released FreeTime, a service that keeps your kids in a safe zone for content like movies and games. Now the…
iTunes Music Store available in 56 new countries
iTunes 11, which launched on 29 November, has added 56 countries to its music store, including South Africa, India and Russia, according to a…
WCIT-12: the future of the internet could be decided by a conference
Last week we reported on the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12), hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and some of the proposed…
WhatBook? FaceApp? Rumours fly that Facebook wants to buy WhatsApp
WhatsApp, the multiplatform messaging app that has taken the world by storm, has been in talks with Facebook, and when Facebook is in talks…
Malware and Adware: Microsoft fights back against cybercriminals
Pay-per-click (PPC) is one of the biggest ways of making money online. And wherever there is big money involved, fraud of some kind will…
Samsung ordered to remunerate former employee for his patents
Samsung’s woes never seem to end. In another form of patent “war”, the Seoul Central District court has ruled that the South Korean electronics…
Google Street View lets you visit the Arctic Circle… without getting frostbite
Starting yesterday, Google opened up the Canadian Arctic to Street View users. In August 2012, an extensive mapping of Cambridge Bay in conjunction with…
The power of the Apple brand: iPad still top tablet in Asia
Take a little test by yourself: say the word “tablet”, and what is the first thing that pops into your mind? The iPad. While…
Gmail and Google Drive integrate completely for larger email files
Since its launch in April 2012, Google Drive has seen a lot of users sign up to share, create and save files. Gmail is now even…
Is the internet poised to get an owner?
Who owns the internet? Anybody will tell you that no-one owns the internet. It consist of about 40 000 networks interconnecting with some 425…
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