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Nokia takes full control of Nokia Siemens networks

Nokia has officially taken full control of its telecoms equipment joint venture Nokia Siemens Network after buying out Siemens in an estimated €1.7-billion (US$2.2-billion)…

BlackBerry’s fruit falls despite healthy predictions

After launching its new BlackBerry 10 series to take on the dominant players in the smartphone market, investors are unimpressed, with the company’s shares…

Twitter wants to roll out a ‘DVR Mode’ for live events

If you’re the kind of person who loves watching live events and tweeting about them at the same time (a lot of people do),…

PayPal gets ready to commercialise space with ‘Galactic’ programme

Space is no longer the preserve of state-funded agencies, people like Richard Branson and Elon Musk are making sure of that. And in a…

Square launches ecommerce play ‘Square Market’ to take on eBay, Etsy

Square is best known for building the small, white plastic cube that can read credit cards when plugged into a smartphone or tablet, but…

Computer modeling solves ‘fairy circle’ mystery

This is pretty cool. For years circular barren patches of land, known as Fairy Circles and typically found in the grasslands of the western…

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…

US secretly forced Google to hand over Wikileaks volunteer email data

The US government forced Google and small internet service provider, Sonic.net to turn over private information gained from email accounts of 28-year old US…

Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu hangout on Google+

There was widespread criticism of the South African government after it refused to grant a visa to the Dalai Lama for Archbishop Emeritus Desmond…

iPhone 4S pre-orders sell out

While many said they would not rush to buy Apple’s new iPhone 4S, colossal US telecom AT&T says that over 200 000 pre-orders of…

Bitcoin Surges As Market Relief Rally Meets Trump’s Crypto Backing

Insider Threats Surge In South African Organisations As AI Expands Cyber Risk

Anthropic Refuses To Let AI Spy On Customers

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

OPPO Reno15 Series Lands In South Africa With Big Cameras And Bigger Battery Ambitions

OPPO Reno15 Series Brings Flagship-Level Hardware Logic to the Mid-Tier in South Africa

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

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