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This Wi-Fi service will give you free internet access in exchange for ads

How many times have you skipped restaurants because they don’t have Wi-Fi? In our modern world, free Wi-Fi usually trumps any menu. Free Wi-Fi…

Five Sony Pictures’ movies leak after major security breach

Sony employees are rounding the year off on a bad note. Five unreleased movies from Sony Pictures have recently leaked online. As reported by…

Tumblr beats Instagram as fastest growing social platform, Facebook lags behind

Research published today by Global Web Index shows that blogging site Tumblr’s active user base grew in the last six months by 120% and…

The ‘Jurassic World’ trailer gets unleashed, features scary hybrid dino

The world’s most popular dinosaur franchise stomping its way to cinemas like a genetically modified T-Rex is to a pair of screaming tourists. Seriously….

HelloPeter founder steps down, promises ‘new life’ on site

Peter Cheales, the founder of online customer service site HelloPeter, has stepped down from his position at the helm of the company. In a…

8 Vines showing just how intense the Ferguson protests are

While a picture’s worth a thousand words, six seconds of footage can say so much more. According to Twitter Reverb over 3.5-million tweets were…

Google updates its product search for Black Friday craze

In just a few days (November 28) Americans will flock to their Walmarts and Best Buys with the hope of getting the latest deals…

Want to put your coding skills to good use? Here’s your chance

This is pretty damn cool. It’s a chance for digital activists, designers, developers and data journalists to use their tech skills for good. In…

SA airline wants you to ‘fly social’, offers free Facebook and Twitter

This is interesting. South African budget airline Mango is set to give passengers on its planes free access to Facebook and Twitter in-flight for…

Get your portrait drawn in the sand by a robot with this Google experiment

Ever wanted to take a photo with your webcam and get it sketched in sand by a robot at a museum in London? Well,…

Twitter to UK journo: sorry we ratted you out, but your suspension was valid

Twitter has issued a statement apologising for its suspension of UK journalist Guy Adams. Well sort of. The social network maintains that it followed…

Outlook.com hits 1m signups just hours after launch

Wow. Turns out people are really excited by Outlook.com. One-million people have already turned on the product that will ultimately kill hotmail just hours…

Mark Zuckerberg’s younger sister now part of the Google family

When you hear the name Zuckerberg, your brain tends to jump to the hoodied founder of Facebook. Here’s the thing though, there are, apparently…

Cape Town social tourism campaign hits 13 million impressions on Twitter

This is very cool. The city of Cape Town is currently hosting four international travel bloggers and their itineraries are being guided by Twitter….

Microsoft’s new Outlook: a home-grown hammer in Hotmail’s coffin

Hotmail’s been the wheezing old collie of the email world for a few years now: we all acknowledge that it doesn’t really serve any…

Twitter behind UK journo’s suspension over Olympic complaint [update]

US broadcaster NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games has been controversial enough to cause a social uproar all of its own. Then UK journalist…

Twitter’s Cashtags: a clone and a broken promise?

If you’re into the stock market and Twitter, then you’re probably stoked about the fact that you can now click on stock market ticker…

Is Facebook rolling out a ‘save it for later’ feature?

Ah Facebook. Two new updates in one day? You’re too kind. First the 955-million strong social network announces that it’s overhauling how images appear…

Goodbye old video chat, hello Google+ hangouts in Gmail

The Google graveyard is getting fuller by the day. The tech giant has been on a bit of a killing spree recently, axing what…

Baidu, Sina team up to share mobile and search content

Two of China’s most influential online powers, Baidu and Sina, are teaming up in a partnership that will see them swapping cloud-based and mobile…

Where are you on the map of the internet?

This is very cool. It’s a representation of the internet that maps each site according to its relative size, with the distances between them…

Opera hits 200m mobile users, reports massive African growth

It may not be a big in the world of desktop browsers but Opera’s mobile effort makes it a serious player in the browser…

Mountain Lion hits 3m downloads in 4 days

Wow. It looks like Apple owners are really keen on upgrading their operating systems. The Cupertino-based tech giant says that downloads of its latest…

SA’s AI Future Depends on One Thing: Skills

Epson Survey Reveals Surge in Demand for Projectors as Home Cinema Trend Takes Off

Opera Mini Brings Free AI to South Africa, Tackling Data Costs and Boosting Digital Inclusion

Outcomes-Based Funding Delivers Real Jobs for SA Youth – A New Model for SME-Led Growth

Umvuzo Health Turns 21 with a Tech-Driven Medtech Model That’s Redefining Corporate Healthcare

Kazang Brings Card Payments to Spaza Shops, Driving Fintech-Fuelled Financial Inclusion

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV