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Cell C launches super-fast LTE-Advanced in SA

It’s fair to say that Cell C had a reputation for years as the network with decent prices but terrible coverage, but things have…

Don’t want to support Uber? Another cab service has (re)launched in SA

Looking for an alternative to the likes of Uber and Unicab? Well, Taxify has become the latest smart cab service to launch in South…

AlwaysOn Wi-Fi will be free on Freedom Day

For anyone who has been caught at an airport or mall without data probably knows about AlwaysOn. The company that provides many Wi-Fi hotspots…

CERN gives away 300TB of sweet research data

Last week, the European Organization for nuclear Research (CERN) released 300TB worth of data to the public. The data includes over 100TB of proton collisions…

Microsoft Q3 results see Surface continue climb, WP fall

Microsoft has revealed its financial results for the third quarter of its 2016 fiscal year. And it’s more of the same for the Redmond…

Need a free, unlimited VPN service? Download Opera browser

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox rule the roost when it comes to desktop browsing, but Opera’s latest browser update might lead you to switch……

Intel announces ‘restructuring’, 12 000 jobs to be cut

Intel has announced a restructuring plan to “speed its transition to a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices”. Unfortunately,…

Google testing out Helpouts, a commerce solution for Hangouts

Google’s been pretty good at spinning money out of all its products over the years but one area its been putting a lot of…

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos launch competing bids for NASA launchpad

This could be one of the most epic bid-offs in history. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla Motor’s Elon Musk are squaring up in a…

Sina Weibo users can now post to Facebook… unless they’re in China

This is interesting. Anyone even vaguely familiar with the Chinese online scene knows that Western social networks like Twitter and Facebook are banned in…

Apple’s less than perfect Q3: iPhone sales up, iPad sales down

Things seem to have hit a wall at Apple Inc. The company’s latest financial report for the quarter ending June shows that its sales…

Chinese researchers, Microsoft partner to teach Kinect sign language

The folks at Microsoft Research Asia have collaborated with researchers from the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to…

Japanese messaging app Line passes 200m user mark

By now you’ve most likely heard of WeChat, the Chinese instant messaging and social app taking the world by storm. What you may not…

Apple admits its developer site was hacked last week

If you write software for OS X and iOS, you might be wondering why Apple suddenly took its developer site offline late last week….

FHM rape joke writers officially axed

FHM South Africa has officially dismissed Maxim Barashenkov and Montle Moorosi, the two writers who sparked social media outrage after posting corrective and date…

Shuttleworth loses exchange control case, gains a few points along the way

Mark Shuttleworth has lost his bid to have the South African Reserve Bank pay back some R250-million (US$24.5-million) that he says he had to…

Yahoo! buys Chinese social data startup Ztelic for R&D boost

Yahoo! has announced the latest buy in its frantic acquisition spree: Chinese social analytics startup Ztelic. The buyout is apparently a part of Yahoo!’s…

Weak Surface sales hit Microsoft hard in Q4 2013 earnings

Microsoft has just reported its Q4 2103 results and it looks like weak sales of its Surface tablet hit it seriously hard. The Redmond-based…

Need a pick me up? Yawn in front of this machine and get a coffee

Anyone who’s ever had to be at the airport for a “red eye” knows what it’s like to be part of a shuffling zombie…

Take a look at PayPal’s $92 quadrillion mistake

Ouch. When it comes to PayPal blunders, at least in monetary terms, this is pretty much the biggest we’ve ever seen. When PR executive…

Court says Yahoo! can reveal details of fight against PRISM

Here’s one that’ll please the privacy advocates. A US court has ruled that the country’s Department of Justice (DoJ) must release classified documents which…

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