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Twitter rape threat lands UK man behind bars

A UK man has been arrested after posting rape threats on Twitter related to the bank of England’s decision to put make classic British…

Study claims home 3D printing could pose health risks

This is interesting. 3D printing is undoubtedly an exciting technology with loads of potential uses, but a new study suggests that we might have…

Nokia serves up YouTube uploader app, beats Google to the punch

If you’ve got a thing for capturing videos on the fly, Nokia just gave you a pretty sound reason to buy the Lumia 1020….

Google testing out Helpouts, a commerce solution for Hangouts

Google’s been pretty good at spinning money out of all its products over the years but one area its been putting a lot of…

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos launch competing bids for NASA launchpad

This could be one of the most epic bid-offs in history. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla Motor’s Elon Musk are squaring up in a…

Sina Weibo users can now post to Facebook… unless they’re in China

This is interesting. Anyone even vaguely familiar with the Chinese online scene knows that Western social networks like Twitter and Facebook are banned in…

Apple’s less than perfect Q3: iPhone sales up, iPad sales down

Things seem to have hit a wall at Apple Inc. The company’s latest financial report for the quarter ending June shows that its sales…

South Africans take to social media on Black Tuesday in ‘secrecy bill’ protest

In the face of the imminent passing of the Protection of State Information Bill in parliament this afternoon, South Africans took to social networks…

China’s weibos pass 300-million user mark

Months after revealing that its online adult population had gone past the 500-million mark, Chinese state authorities announced that more than 300-million people in…

Ben Parr fired from Mashable

Mashable’s prolific editor-at-large, Ben Parr, has parted ways with the leading tech site under circumstances that apparently were less than amicable, reports technology news…

Local search firm Incubeta in R100m buyout of online media player Interface

Incubeta Holdings, a holding company for global search specialists Clicks2Customers has purchased Interface Holdings, a South African online media company in a deal worth…

Sergey Brin, wife donate $500 000 to Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the free online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has received a US$500 000 grant Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne…

Chinese games consortium sues Baidu for copyright infringement

A group of Chinese game developers has announced that it intends suing the country’s search giant Baidu for more than 30-million yuan (US$4.7-million) for…

Uncovered documents show tools governments use to monitor us digitally

The Wall Street Journal has published an exposé on technologies being sold to governments to enable them to intercept the publics’ digital communications. It…

Canadian IT company busted for hosting Syrian govt websites

Investigations are under way after a think tank based at the University of Toronto reported that Syrian government websites are being hosted on servers…

Simon Cowell joins Twitter — mocks employees, battles Piers Morgan

When news broke that Simon Cowell, a professional giver of opinion, and rumoured transatlantic music mogul had joined Twitter, it seemed like a match…

SA’s Praekelt Foundation scoops international mobile marketing award

The Praekelt Foundation has been named the first South African winner of the Social Impact Category of the 2011 Mobile Marketing Awards for Innovation,…

PayPal lets friends send money on Facebook

The combination of online payments and social media has hit a turning point. Online payment giant, PayPal, has released a “Send Money” application on…

Avusa’s group-buying play Zappon bites the dust

The success of Groupon paved the way for a number of clones to enter the group buying game, but not all of them have…

SOPA, a law unto itself

Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA was introduced by the US House of representatives as a positive means of combating piracy but, noble as…

Breaking news: Visa, Fundamo unveil emerging markets MCommerce product

Visa, the world’s largest credit and debit card network, has unveiled a new product that allows people to access a prepaid account through their…

Google Music hits the Android market

Google has finally opened its online music offering, via its Android store, to US residents after months of beta testing. “Today we are happy…

Bloggers steal limelight at Asian political meeting

On the sidelines of a meeting of the Southeast-Asian economic and political grouping, ASEAN , around 200 bloggers from the region met to offer…

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition Review: A Sleek, AI-Powered Ultrabook for the Work-Anywhere Era

WeThinkCode_ and South Cape TVET College Bring Software Engineering Training to Rural SA Youth

Flow launches the world’s first and only shoppable audience marketplace

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

Capitec and Mama Money Launch Fintech Partnership to Empower Migrant Workers Across Africa

Flow Unveils World’s First Shoppable Audience Marketplace – A Fintech-Led Revolution in Digital Targeting

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

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel