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20 world airports that utterly hate Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7

Samsung’s having a right old crappy year. After the promise of its featured-packed Samsung Galaxy Note 7, its hopes to challenge Apple and others…

Apple App Store prices drop in South Africa

Great news, Apple users. The Cupertino company has announced that App Store pricing will be adjusted for those in South Africa and New Zealand….

Google now lets you ‘Fact Check’ News articles

Mountain View’s Google has announced that its News portal will now include “Fact Check” tags to “help readers find fact checking in large news…

Google buys branded content platform FameBit

Marketing and branded content platform FameBit has this week been acquired by Google. This is in an attempt to bring brands and creators, especially…

Samsung to buy artificial intelligence startup Viv

This is big. In light of Google Assistant’s move to its new home, Apple’s Siri finding refuge on the iPhone 7 and Microsoft’s Cortana…

Google Pixel is a physical search bar, according to ad

Google doesn’t do subtle any more. Sure, Google Tricks weren’t exactly marks of elegance, nor are the coy names for its Google Pixel smartphones’…

Yahoo built a program to sift through user emails – report

Ailing internet firm Yahoo apparently built a program last year which sifts through all incoming emails on its service. Yahoo complied with a US…

Glass gets travel friendly as Foursquare, Tripit, Opentable get apps

If you’re a Google Glass explorer and you think that the device hasn’t really, well, allowed you to properly explore the world then the…

Want to disappear from the web? EU rules that Google must allow you to

Ever wished you could make an unsavory incident in your past disappear from the web before it can come back to haunt you? Well,…

Apple’s Beats deal: more questions than (obvious) answers

There’s a lot about Apple’s purchase of Beats Electronics — a headphone maker and streaming music provider — for somewhere north of US$3-billion that…

Here’s everything you need to know about Gmail’s massive redesign

The web’s most popular email client is testing its biggest overhaul since 2011, and it’s gone back to basics with a focus on email….

Steve Ballmer takes over from Bill Gates as Microsoft’s largest individual shareholder

He may no longer be CEO, but Steve Ballmer is now officially Microsoft’s largest shareholder. The now retired Ballmer takes over from Bill Gates…

You may never own another Nokia again: Microsoft set to kill the brand it bought for billions

In news that’s kind of sad, but hardly unexpected, former Nokia CEO and newly minted Microsoft devices head Stephen Elop has revealed that the…

All of a sudden, things aren’t looking so bad for Microsoft

Over the last few months people have been asking a lot of questions about Microsoft. That’s understandable. Steve Ballmer’s retirement was sudden and, even…

It’s official, Nokia has got a new daddy… I mean owner

It is official, straight out of Redmond. Nokia Devices and Services business now has a new owner. Microsoft’s protracted acquisition of Nokia has been…

Google and NASA’s floating space robots are all kinds of awesome

“The future is awesome,” brags Google. NASA and Google plan to launch floating robots with 3-D mapping technology into our orbit, this will allow…

Google launches South African election hub

This is pretty neat. Google has launched a South African elections hub as the country prepares to go to the polls on 7 May….

Microsoft still king of enterprise software, go figure

When it comes to the software business Microsoft is pretty much untouchable, this according to the latest Gartner report on worldwide software revenue in…

Apple and Google have already won the smartphone wars, now what?

Last year, Android and iOS devices accounted for 93.8% of global smartphone shipments. That’s 94 out of every 100 shipped to operators and retailers….

LiveStream app lets you broadcast live with Google Glass

There are probably a lot of Glass users out there who’ve been waiting desperately for this app. Built by Livestream.com, the app lets you…

Windows update: Microsoft finally kills XP, refreshes 8.1

Tomorrow is a much bigger day for Microsoft than many experts dare to admit. This month’s edition of “Patch Tuesday” will see two important…

10 things we’re really going to miss about Windows XP

On 8 April, Microsoft will finally cease support for its stalwart OS Windows XP. Released to manufacture back in August 2001, the company’s second…

Of GOOGs and GOOGLs: getting to grips with Google’s stock split

If you’re Google stock holder, you may recently have found yourself wondering what’s going on with the internet giant’s share price. Well first off,…

Lenovo at MWC 2025: AI-Powered Laptops, Sustainable Concepts, and a Glimpse into the Future

Smart Tech: Turning the Tide on South Africa’s Water Crisis

Celebrating Innovation: Redmi Note 14 Post-Launch Event in South Africa

Verto Launches Global Business Award to Fuel African Startup Expansion

GITEX Africa: Shaping the Future of Tech and Positioning Africa as a Global Powerhous

Gozem Secures $30M Series B to Fuel Super App Expansion Across Francophone Africa

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Lucid CEO becomes strategic advisor

Golf 8.5 update with lots of Life

Tariffs trump US new car affordability needs