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5 Google Glass apps designed to add to your driving experience

Google Glass has a strange effect on people. You’re aware that it’ll make you look desperately uncool, but once you understand what it does,…

Isolation: a problem for current and future African entrepreneurs

Talking with African entrepreneurs, one of the recurring topics is the difficulty of sufficient funding in seed- or early-stage with internationally acknowledged and well-connected…

5 practical uses ‘The Internet of Things’ has in real life

The Internet of Things doesn’t just refer to your ability to hop online to check your Facebook or update your Tumblr page. More than…

Daptio: the SA startup personalising education with adaptive online courses

Online learning in South Africa is still in its infancy. Many regard the African continent as the next-frontier of online education where the market…

Pocket Cricket beta review: the best cricket game available right now

Cricket is a nuanced game that ebbs and flows between two evenly matched teams (hopefully) as a game goes on. It’s a game about…

12 weird and wonderful apps for the connected driver

Quick! Your car or your smartphone? No, this isn’t a poorly worded stick-up. We are merely asking which is more crucial to the smooth…

Guybox delivers essentials to men who have better things to do than shop

Guybox is a trimonthly service that sends out packages filled with men’s essentials such as underwear, socks and deodorant. This is not a try-before-you-buy…

Add boom to your room with Logitech Z323 speakers

Logitech has long had a place in my heart for good value, quality gear. Its keyboards and mice are hugely popular, but the little…

‘Dirty Dozen’ least secure smartphones – all Android

First, get ready with a pinch of salt, as security companies sounding alarms about security can be self-serving. Vested interest, and all. But Bit9,…

‘Buffy’ stabs at the heart of Facebook phones

Users have been bombarded with “Facebook” phones this year. Most of them, with the Vodafone 555 blue as a prime example, were pretty standard…

App of the week: TouchBase Calendar

This week I take a look at Touchbase, the calendar app for people who are constantly out on the road in meetings with clients…

FXI Cotton Candy. PC. Onna stick

File this under, “Oh my word that’s cool.” A previously unknown Norwegian company called FXI Technologies has demonstrated a working prototype of it’s “computer…

40 000 apps and counting for the Windows Phone Marketplace

The Windows App store is inching ever closer to relevance with the landmark availability of over 40 000 applications for its line of smartphones. Earlier…

Review: Motorola Razr cuts to the quick

The Motorola dev people have spent a lot of time on the new Razr. It shows. It oozes loving attention. And not in the…

Nook Tablet vs Kindle Fire — the experts weigh in

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet is bold, competitive and, at US$250, reasonably priced. But is it worth snatching up in a post-Kindle Fire world?…

Surface computing surfaces for real

We’re all one step closer to a Star Trek future of sliding doors, teleporters, tricorders and big table-sized computers that you touch and gesture…

Mobile phone gaming kills casual gaming handhelds

Is casual gaming, the supposed vampire sucking on the life-blood of the “hard-core” market, heading into a downward spiral? According to a report by…

Review: Vodafone Webbook — cheap, plastic, nasty

The Vodafone Webbook is cheap, incredibly cheap (around R1 500 [US$ 184]). As such, criticising it feels a little odd. It’s a bit like…

The world’s cheapest tablet goes live

The tablet market has exploded with new devices shipping from every vendor under the sun, but most of the media focus has been directed…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 smashes sales records

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has pulled in US$775-million in sales worldwide during its short five-day release period. This puts it in line to…

Why your startup’s product offering should look like a McDonald’s menu

While some might question the logic behind Alan Knott Craig Junior’s purchase of MXit, one can only stand up and applaud the astuteness of…

LeapPad: The completely rubbish tablet you have to get

This is an odd review for me to write, because my opinion doesn’t count. It’s not designed for me, it’s designed for kids. But…

This Army: Gunning for the big time

This Army first launched Tank five years ago as a hosted site-builder application in an already competitive DIY web publishing arena. Slowly but surely…

HONOR X9c Redefines Rugged Smartphones with Unmatched Durability and Smart AI Features

South Africans Embrace AI: 71% Excited About Future Impact, New Survey Reveals

Temu Survey Reveals Price is King for South Africans

Purple Elephant Ventures Secures $4.5M Seed Round, Setting Record in Kenya’s Tourism-Tech Scene

Conservio raises $1M to expand sustainable travel

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

GS3 Emzoom R Style review

Dakar dominated by South African built Hilux Evos

Elkann to create Jeep and Stellantis Meta(morphosis)