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South African learners lobby for data-free Wikipedia access

A group of grade 11 learners at Sinenjongo High School in Cape Town, South Africa has written four letters to major telecom operators Vodacom,…

NSA to launch inquiry into whether whistleblower Snowden had China ties

The US’ National Security Agency (NSA) is set to investigate whether Edward Snowden, the man who unveiled its complex spying programme, had ties to…

Twitter launches #FollowMe, sums you up in a movie highlight reel

Twitter announced its second partnership with Portland startup Vizify today. It’s called #FollowMe and it collects standout messages, images and video clips from your…

Twitter opens up its analytics to the public… sorta

This is interesting. It seems that Twitter has quietly opened up its analytics metrics so it can give users a better understanding of their…

WhatsApp hits new record, processes 27bn messages in 24 hours

WhatsApp today announced that it had processed 27-billion messages in 24 hours, a new record for the mobile messaging service. It’s also significantly up…

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…

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…

BlackBerry services fail across Europe, Mid-East, & Africa

Users of BlackBerry smartphones midday Monday began noticing that services accessed using BlackBerry’s Internet Service (BIS), were down. Initially it seemed that the service…

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