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Apple Music student discounts now available in South Africa

Apple Music’s student additions are now available in 30 more countries, including South Africa, the Cupertino company announced. The student membership, which gives those…

Google Trips: how does it fare against its competition?

When Google Trips launched in September to little fanfare we covered it here at Memeburn, noting that it arrives as a big upgrade to…

Trump offers Apple ‘large’ tax cuts for US manufacturing return

US president-elect Donald Trump held a phone call with Apple CEO Tim Cook, offering the tech firm “very large” tax cuts to return manufacturing…

Here’s how Google Play is using AI to improve search

Trying to find an app on the Google Play Store can be an exercise in frustration, especially if it’s an eagerly anticipated app or…

Google Search shows how much SA cares about ‘Donald Trump’

Google News Labs’ US Elections hub is about as interesting as the elections itself. Graphing its slew of data garnered from daily search habits,…

Microsoft Teams: Redmond joins the funky workplace collab party

Microsoft has today launched its answer to workplace collaboration tool Slack in the form of Microsoft Teams. The company’s announcement comes just weeks after…

‘Harambe’ lives on as emoji in Apple’s iOS 10.2 update

Good news, internet. Harambe might be making a triumphant return to your Apple mobile device in the form of an emoji. Although many Apple…

Tencent, many dollars: why Naspers rises and falls on the Chinese giant’s fortunes

After a struggling for a good couple of months, Naspers absolutely crushed it on Thursday. The only reason for that was its 34.5% holding…

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…

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