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Google’s Inbox app wants to revolutionise email on your phone

Ever since Gmail was released over 10 years ago as Google’s free email service, it’s become one of the world’s most popular applications. People…

BurnCast #15: Social media on the Oscar Pistorius court case finale

Welcome to BurnCast, our weekly podcast that discusses tech trends, innovation and news. This week saw paralympic icon Oscar Pistorius get sentenced five years…

Airtel partners with UNESCO for IT youth training in Gabon

Bharti Airtel Limited, commonly known as Airtel — an Indian multinational telecommunications services company with its headquarters in New Delhi — has launched a…

Cape Town launches TCT app to make traveling in the city a breeze

Keen for a gatsby lunch in the City Bowl or a trip to the Waterfront? Perhaps the Transport for Cape Town (TCT) app can…

Goodbye cable? Online video consumption increases by massive 43%

You, me and virtually everyone else on the internet watching fail videos, Gangnam Style and series like The Walking Dead and Orange is the…

BurnCast: Facebook freezing eggs, Apple events and the week ahead

Welcome to BurnCast, our weekly podcast that discusses tech trends, innovation and news. Hosted by Mich Atagana and Jason Bechervaise. This week’s edition of…

Twitter overhauls search, makes it simpler, smarter and more personal

Ah ha! So this is what that exec who said that Twitter search and discovery was set to “change forever” was talking about. The…

Hundreds of thousands face web blackout because of old malware

If you suddenly find yourself cut off from the internet in the near future, your ISP, or a break in an internet cable might…

Twitter exec promises social network is about to ‘change forever’

This is big. The way you search for and discover things on Twitter is about to “change forever”. That’s according to a tweet sent…

Facebook set for big social commerce push

It’s amazing what you can find hidden in a piece of code. The future strategy of the world’s largest social network, for instance. The…

SA Tourism confirms site outages due to unpaid hosting bills, blames ‘red tape’

South Africa’s primary online tourism portal has repeatedly gone down over the last week because the organisation behind the site failed to pay its…

Wikileaks releases 2.5m Syrian emails

Whistleblowing site Wikileaks has just published some 2.5-million emails from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names. According to Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange, the files…

Angry Birds, Instapaper hit by Apple app store bug

Developers may prefer iOS to Android, but a few of them aren’t going to be Apple’s biggest fans. Thanks to a technical issue, a…

Siri gets Apple sued in China

Sigh. Another day, another Apple suit in China. This time the Cupertino-based giant is being sued by Zhi Zhen Internet Technology over its voice…

Vodacom CEO to step down in 2013

Vodacom CEO and über geek Pieter Uys will step down as head of the African mobile giant in 2013. Uys will be replaced by…

Higgs Boson: Twitter compares to tech launch, slags Comic Sans slides

Tech events these days are big, glamorous, and full of spectacle. Just look at the Glass demo Google pulled at its recent I/O event….

If ACTA is a nuclear sub, the European Parliament just sank it

The European Parliament has rejected Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a proposed piece of internet legislation that threatened to apply restrictions to online freedom. ACTA…

Google axes more products, Microsoft employee pins them

“More wood behind fewer arrows”. That’s been the operating rationale of Google ever since Larry Page returned as CEO in 2011. Hardly surprising then…

CERN finds particle consistent with Higgs Boson

Scientists at the CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research have found a particle consistent with the illusive Higgs Boson, sometimes referred to as…

Google’s been looking buy Yahoo’s ad tech for a while now

Google is looking to get its hands on Yahoo’s ad technology. In fact, it’s been looking for some time now, having made its first…

Tencent, Activision Blizzard to take ‘Call of Duty Online’ into China

This is interesting. One of China’s biggest social networking powers Tencent has been granted the exclusive rights to distribute Call of Duty Online in…

In-app mobile advertising spend to soar by 2015

As more people opt to use their mobile devices for access and content consumption, brands are catching on. A recent report from Juniper Research…

Mobile World Congress 2025: A Glimpse into the Hyperconnected Future

$4 Trillion Gone: Unpacking the US Stock Market Turmoil and Its Ripple Effect

Lenovo at MWC 2025: AI-Powered Laptops, Sustainable Concepts, and a Glimpse into the Future

Injini Accelerates EdTech Revolution in SA with New Mastercard Foundation Fellowship Cohort

Preferental: The Startup Transforming South Africa’s Rental Market with AI

Verto Launches Global Business Award to Fuel African Startup Expansion

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

G63 AMG is a better build with Grabber AT3s

Lucid CEO becomes strategic advisor

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