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Random House launches eBook store focussed on SA titles

The largest South African trade publisher, Penguin Random House South Africa (PRHSA), has announced the launch of its eBook store. Listing only South African…

Project Isizwe brings its free Wi-Fi offering to Gugulethu, Khayelitsha taxi ranks

Project Isizwe has announced that it is rolling out its free Wi-Fi offering at taxi ranks in Gugulethu and Khayalitsha. The initiative, run in…

Open Access Control: Vinny Lingham among speakers at TEDXCapeTown

TEDXCapeTown 2015 has confirmed it lineup, as well as its theme. The event, now in its fifth year, aims to tackle the delicate paradox…

Google Now lets you dictate WhatsApp, WeChat messages on the go

Google has introduced an new feature to Google Now that makes it easier to send an instant message without actually having to type them…

Powertime now lets you manage all your bills in one place

Powertime, the prepaid electricity payments service, has announced the launch of a service which it says will allow users to pay any bill online….

Microsoft reckons it can create 100k job opportunities in Middle East, Africa

Microsoft has got some big job creation plans for the Middle East and Africa. According to a release sent to Memeburn, the Redmond-based giant…

Google revamps Google+, ends YouTube integration

Hard as it tried, Google could never make Google+ cool, no matter how many features it added. And now, it seems, the Mountain View-based…

Twitter partners with mobile operators as it prepares for a possible $15bn IPO

With Facebook on Wall Street and about to come to the end of its first official year of trading, everyone in the tech world…

The White House responds: sorry geeks, we won’t build you a Death Star

Ah man! Just when we thought there was hope. The petition to ask the US presidency to start securing the resources and funding to…

RIP Aaron Swartz: Researchers celebrate activist with #pdftribute

Academics, researchers and activists from around the world have taken to Twitter to pay tribute to internet activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz who…

Anonymous hacks MIT site in response to Aaron Swartz suicide

Hacker collective Anonymous has responded to the suicide of Reddit co-founder and internet activist Aaron Swartz by hacking a number of MIT sites. The…

Samsung’s rise continues as Galaxy S range sales hit 100 million

Global domination: all but complete. Samsung’s Galaxy S range of flagship smartphones (as in the Galaxy S I, II and III) has passed the…

Bing managed to steal 0.2% of Google’s search market share in December

Looks like all of Microsoft’s Bing marketing stunts are starting to have an effect. Sort of. The search engine everyone loves to laugh at…

Major Chinese angel investor calls for more online freedom

Like most of China’s big tech investment gurus, Xu Xiaoping is on Sina Weibo. And although fellow tech investor Kaifu Lee just spent some…

SAP gets into the realtime business apps game

SAP, the world’s largest business software company, launched a suite of enterprise business applications running on its real-time platform HANA, that it says provides…

BlackBerry services down for Vodafone users in Europe, Middle East, Africa

Yes, BlackBerry is having connection issues again — but it’s not the type of widespread outage we saw back in 2011 when BIS was…

The Nintendo Wii U trumps the Wii in sales revenue

Nintendo’s Wii U console has surpassed its older brethren in sales. In just under two months since its release, the Wii U has raked…

Travel the world for free from your armchair with Wikivoyage

Wikivoyage, launched by the Wikimedia Foundation, is a new site that will provide travellers with information on destinations, restaurants, hotels and whatever users choose…

Send a message to Mark Zuckerberg…for $100

This is interesting. Mashable is reporting that Facebook is now charging users US$100 to send a message to Mark Zuckerberg. In its tests, it…

Nokia reports ‘solid’ Q4, sold 4.4m Lumias

Looks like things are finally on the up for Nokia. Well, better than expected at any rate. The embattled Finnish mobile giant today reported…

Amazon is giving away free digital music — if you’ve bought the physical CD

Have you been putting off converting your old CDs into MP3 format? Well, Amazon just made the process less of an effort: now, it…

Facebook: now the top social network in 127 countries

If you think anyone stands a chance of eclipsing Facebook’s dominance, think again. The social network is now top of the pile in at…

RIM: we’ve got the top apps for the BlackBerry 10 launch

In the run-up to what many consider RIM’s comeback/last hope for regaining its lost marketshare, we’ve been given quite a few insights into BlackBerry…

Monitors Are the New Power Move in Africa’s Gaming Boom

Three South African Schools Win Global Recognition in Robotics Innovation

Temu Chooses Nigerian Startup Dellyman To Power Nationwide Deliveries

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

Acer brings RTX 50 Series gaming laptops to South Africa with next gen AI performance

OPPO Brings Its Most Affordable Smartphone to South Africa with the New A6x

HONOR’s X7d Gets a Festive Boost with Free Screen Protection

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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