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Google acquires Jibe Mobile, a leading provider of Rich Communication Services

Google has acquired Jibe Mobile, a startup that is a leading provider in Rich Communication Services. Google is in the process of implementing RCS…

Half-a-billion-dollar satellite launches to beam broadband to Australia’s most remote areas

A rocket carrying a satellite worth an estimated half-a-billion Australian dollars (around US$350-million) has successfully launched from French Guiana today. The aim? To bring…

Tshwane citizens can now use free Wi-Fi to do good

Over the past couple of years, we’ve written fairly extensively on the City Of Tshwane’s efforts at rolling out free Wi-Fi in conjunction with…

Android is now used by 1.4 billion people worldwide

At last night’s Google Nexus event, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Android now has more than 1.4-billion active users. That’s 400-million up from…

Watch the opening monologue of The Daily Show with new host Trevor Noah

Last night, South African comedian Trevor Noah took the reins as host of American news satire show, The Daily Show. Though the show appears…

10 of our favourite snaps from the blood-red #SuperMoon eclipse

Stargazers from the Americas, Europe and Africa were over moon this weekend, as they stared through their phones’ screens to capture and share a…

Google Now is not coming to iOS… yet

Now for a little snippet I like to call “Eric said what?” Apparently just because Eric Schmidt says it is so doesn’t mean it…

Say hello to Google’s answer to Evernote: Keep

Imitation is the best form of flattery. Google has launched its own note-taking and archiving app, Google Keep, in direct competition with consumer favourite…

Chameleon botnet costing online advertisers millions

This is pretty scary. Online security experts have identified a botnet that is stealing millions of dollars a month. The botnet, which has been…

Eric Schmidt tells India to stop policing internet, focus on innovation

Google chairman Eric Schmidt has told India that it needs to stop censoring the web and instead make innovation a priority. In an editorial…

DStv and MWEB team up to offer movie downloads, free data

Paid digital satellite TV service DStv is teaming up with internet service provider MWEB to give its subscribers 6GB of ADSL data as well…

Microsoft will support WP8 until 2014, no sign of what happens after

Well. This is interesting. It looks like Windows Phone adherents (yes they do exist) are in for an anxious few months. Microsoft has announced…

Google ‘Keep’ makes brief appearance online, could compete with Evernote

Looks like Google could be about to re-enter note-taking space in a serious way. The internet giant looks to be readying a product called…

Facebook’s Early Adopter Club set to reignite mobile experimentation

This is interesting. Facebook has opened up a limited beta club, which will see some Android users given the ability test out features before…

Dropbox shows its ambitions with Mailbox acquisition

Cloud storage specialist Dropbox today bought out Orchestra, the company behind the much-hyped email app Mailbox. The acquisition is widely thought to be a…

Samsung to roll out mobile health centres across Africa

Samsung recently launched its solar powered health centre model in Cape Town, marking the start of what it says will be a large-scale medical…

Samsung to give SA users free Wi-Fi for a year

If you had any doubts as to Samsung’s desire to stay top of the smartphone pile, check this out. The South Korean electronics giant…

More wood gets cleared as Google axes Reader, Cloud Connect

Google today announced as second wave of spring-cleaning that will see it consign a number of products to the graveyard including Reader, Google Voice…

Netflix goes social, launches Facebook partnership

Online video content platform Netflix has introduced a social element to its site. The company announced today that users can now see what their…

Conclave elects new pope: watch it live

The papal conclave, a short while ago, sent out white smoke from a chimney in the Vatican indicating that it has chosen a new…

Pinterest launches analytics tools for brands, plans to monetise soon

Popular online scrapbooking platform Pinterest has decided to introduce new analytics tools that will inform and allow businesses to track visitors to its site….

LinkedIn set to dole out more than $50m for maker of newsreader Pulse

Professional social network LinkedIn is getting ready to buy the company behind newsreader app Pulse say people familiar with the matter. The deal, reports…

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