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Glass gets travel friendly as Foursquare, Tripit, Opentable get apps

If you’re a Google Glass explorer and you think that the device hasn’t really, well, allowed you to properly explore the world then the…

Move over Dogecoin, Madibacoin is here

Forget Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Hashcoin and Litecoin. The new cryptocurrency hotness is Madibacoin (not Madiba-bacon, calm down) which will function in the exact same manner as…

Julian Assange to headline Net Prophet

Wikileaks founder and one of the most divisive people in tech, Julian Assange, is set to headline Net Prophet, the annual technology and trends…

Silence at last: Twitter adds a mute button for iOS and Android

We’ve all experienced it: the fellow Twitter user we love following, but who occasionally overshares from an event or gets involved in the kind…

Mozilla is definitely introducing sponsored tiles in its new-tab page

If you were one of the many hoping that Firefox would be making a retreat from sponsored tiles on its new new-tab page, then…

Apple eyes Dr. Dre’s Beats for a possible $3.2 billion buyout

Update: Tyrese Gibson, actor and friend of Dr. Dre, has uploaded a video to his Facebook page just a few hours ago. In the…

Desperate for a product on Amazon? You can now Tweet it into your shopping basket

This is pretty interesting. Amazon has introduced #AmazonCart, a service that allows you to put products in your Amazon shopping cart by sending out…

Twitter keeps abreast of National Cleavage Day

Once a year, brassiere manufacturer Wonderbra sponsors National Cleavage Day in celebration of, well, cleavage. This year, it’s gained enough attention to trend globally…

Google opens Umbono-style incubator in London

Google has been behind startup facilities in countries such as Egypt and South Africa. Now it’s taking the model established in those countries to…

Leaked screenshot reveals Google Drive details

A leaked screenshot has revealed some more details about Google’s soon to be released Drive product. The cloud storage product appears to gives users…

How hot cross buns caused a social media storm

Which seasonal food do you think is capable of working people into an emotionally fuelled social media frenzy? Christmas gammon? Thanksgiving turkey? Actually, it…

Turn a Twitter feed in toilet paper? Sounds…cathartic actually

Ah, your Twitter feed. It amuses, angers, and sometimes even inspires you. Surely there should be a way for the tweets on it to…

Twitter mourns feminist poet Adrienne Rich

News of the death of American poet Adrienne Rich reverberated across Twitter, becoming a top globally trending topic just moments after it was first…

HTML5, smartphones will change the way we interact with companies

HTML5, together with massive growth in smartphone penetration, could see a lot more people interacting with companies using their mobile devices. Many companies —…

What if you could have more Twitter followers than Lady Gaga?

What if you could have a million Twitter followers for a day? What would you do? Well, you might just have the chance to…

Google helps put Mandela archive on the web

Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) have created a new Nelson Mandela Digital Archive on the web that is freely accessible…

Major Silicon Valley VC to deliver lecture in SA

A major Silicon Valley VC is set to return to South Africa, the country of his birth, to deliver a lecture at Stellenbosch University….

Google to go into third-party comments

Google is launching a third-party commenting system. Thing is, it’s not trying to enter into the space of specialist industry players such as Disqus,…

Tap a fridge magnet, order a pizza

If you thought ordering in was a cop-out on making dinner, TV dinners and ordering has been taken to a whole new level. We’ve…

How insulting the Swazi king on Twitter could get you arrested

Swaziland isn’t exactly renowned for its freedom and democratic institutions. In fact, it’s one of the last countries on the planet with an absolute…

Get a new iPad for less than $0.25?

This is interesting. A company is putting four brand new iPads up for sale on online auction site BidorBuy at a starting price of…

Angry Birds Space downloaded 10M times in 3 days

If you’re looking for an indication of how big the Angry Birds phenomenon is, you could do much worse than the fact that Rovio’s…

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