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SA Reserve Bank says ‘financial refugee’ Shuttleworth could ruin the economy

The bid by internet billionaire Mark Shuttleworth to reclaim some R250-million (US$24.5-million) from the South African Reserve Bank and have its system of exchange…

StopWatching.Us: Mozilla’s anti-surveillance campaign

Privacy and surveillance have been hot topics on the web and all media over the past week, and chances are it’s going to carry…

Google, Facebook, Microsoft asks NSA to let them prove innocence on PRISM

When you’re implicated in a massive government scandal involving security breaches and privacy, you’re going to want to do whatever if takes to prove…

Google Drive, Docs now in Afrikaans, Amharic, Swahili, and Zulu

Google has expanded the number of the languages available on Drive, its cloud storage product. The internet giant announced today that you can now…

Google confirms Waze acquisition

Google has announced that it has acquired Waze, the Israeli-based crowd-sourced navigation app, as everyone expected it would today. “…we’re excited to announce we’ve…

SA, Aussie panel turns to crowdfunding for ComiCon trip

This is pretty interesting. The publishers of Velocity, a platform designed to provide South African and Australian comic book artists and writers a place…

Mark Shuttleworth takes SA gov’t to court over exchange controls

Ubuntu founder and South African-born tech billionaire Mark Shuttleworth is set to take the South African government to court in a bid to have…

US ‘War on Terror’ mirrors ‘Die Hard’ as aircraft drones struck by mystery virus

Wired recently reported that a virus had infected ground control stations of US unmanned autonomous vehicles, more commonly known as unmanned drones. What this…

Apple claims victory over Samsung in Australia

Apple has won yet another lawsuit against Samsung, banning sales of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 across Australia. This is yet another feather in the…

Samsung announces eco milestones

Samsung’s PlanetFirst initiative announced that it had reached “key milestones” in its eco-friendly scheme. The tech giant claims it has “achieved comprehensive sustainability goals”,…

Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix dies

Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. Ritchie…

BlackBerry woes worsen as outage hits US & RIM homeland Canada

While Research In Motion (RIM) continues to attempt to reconnect users cut from BlackBerry’s BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), news is filtering in that users…

China’s Tencent Weibo launches English-language service

Chinese web giant Tencent has launched an English version of its Twitter-like microblogging service. According Chinese newspaper, China Daily, the English version of Tencent…

South Africa is ‘best friends’ with the United States on Facebook

Global payments giant Western Union has revealed that the United States is South Africa’s “best friend” online. The announcement comes in the form a…

Zynga set to launch social network called Project Z

Social gaming giant Zynga is set to launch its own social gaming network in a bid to reduce its dependency on Facebook. The new…

Naspers rolls out payment gateway PayU in India

South African media giant Naspers has quietly rolled out its payment gateway product PayU to the Indian market. According to Indian digital news site…

BlackBerry’s continuing ‘partial outages’ in Europe, Africa, & Middle East

BlackBerry users in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region have found themselves cut off from online-communications for three days running, following a…

YouTube, Lenovo to send student experiments into space

YouTube and Lenovo, in cooperation with Space Adventures and space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA),…

Facebook iPad app released into the wild

The long-awaited Facebook app for the iPad 2 is finally here. The app gives an official platform to the world’s leading social network on…

Huffington Media explosion continues with launch of ‘Le Huffington Post’

The explosion of titles under the Huffington umbrella continues unabated after it was announced that , Le Huffington Post, a French version of the…

Facebook acquires social Q&A service friend.ly

Facebook has acquired friend.ly, the firm behind a social question and answer app on the social network. “We’re excited to announce that we recently…

Steve Jobs tribute turns into plagiarism debate

Since the death of Steve Jobs, a photograph which features the late Apple founder’s silhouette — incorporated into the bite of a white Apple…

Tablet computers set to become ‘the brains’ of all devices

Tablet computers are set to become the central brains of almost all electronic devices. For example, a tablet computer could be docked into a…

Acer’s New Nitro AI Gaming Gear Is Here—But Is It Worth It for South Africans?

R19,000 for Bass? Sony Tests South Africa’s Audio Appetite

Tech Stocks Tank – Can SA Survive a Global Meltdown?

SA Business Confidence: Fintech Lula Sounds Alarm on SME Reality

Why MVNOs are gaining ground — and how Huge NXTGN is accelerating the shift

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

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV

L2 charging and the power of dwell time

Tires and tariffs