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Google Now could be on your home page soon

If you were a fan of iGoogle, this might pique your interest. Google looks set to bring Now, its contextual search assistant, to its…

Tech industry offers support for victims of Chinese quake

The recent 7.0 magnitude earthquake that left more than 200 people dead or missing, 11 800 injured and around 100 000 homeless in Sichuan,…

Life after Andrew Mason: Groupon’s stock up 40%

Things haven’t been easy for Groupon since it went public in 2011. The company tanked after its most recent quarterly earnings report, losing nearly…

India’s Vserv.mobi teams up with Yahoo! to target South East Asia

Indian mobile ad network Vserv.mobi has announced a strategic partnership with Yahoo! that will see the two companies attempting to conquer South East Asia….

Facebook Home has 500k+ installations a week after launch

A week after its release onto the Google Play Store, Facebook Home has been downloaded more than 500 000 times. That’s not the best…

Reddit faces outages in midst of DDoS attack

Reddit is experiencing intermittent outages apparently due to a malicious DDoS attack. People trying to access the site, which labels itself “the front page…

Lenovo looks set to buy IBM’s x86 server business

Computing giant IBM is apparently set to sell part of the server side of its business to Chinese PC manufacturer Lenovo. According to the…

WikiLeaks threatens release of newly uncensored US cables

WikiLeaks is once more threatening to release a series of uncensored cables following an online poll it is conducting with its Twitter followers. A…

Microsoft hit with lawsuit for illegal phone-tracking

Microsoft has found itself facing a potentially disastrous lawsuit in which it is charged that smartphones running Windows 7 have been illegally tracking user…

Saudi, Russia and China the top Spam countries, says Symantec

Spam is on the decrease, but still accounts for around 76 percent of the world’s email traffic. That’s according to the latest Symantec Intelligence…

Malema’s hearing: More than $200 000 worth of negative coverage

The high-profile disciplinary hearing of ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has so far reached an astonishing 8 419 565 individuals, “costing” South Africa…

Facebook Check-in Deals South Africa confirms first commercial partners

Facebook Check-in Deals South Africa has announced its first major brand partners. The location-based deals service has partnered with car manufacturer Chevrolet, Cellular provider…

WikiLeaks’ mystery cable, US backlash and Guardian row

On the heels of its recent release of US diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has released an encrypted file after telling its followers on Twitter to…

China’s Innovation Watch attracts major investors

Innovation Works, a Chinese high-tech investment firm has secured major funding from a number of high profile tech companies for a startup incubation fund….

Facebook reported to be launching music service

News agency Reuters has reported that Facebook is set to launch a music streaming service. The move is widely believed to be an attempt…

Déjà vu – iPhone 5 prototype found in bar

In what by now must seem like a marketing scheme for iPhone launches, an Apple employee recently lost the iPhone 5 at a San…

Hulu now live in Japan

Hulu is expanding to Japan in a move which will see it offering its services outside of the United States for the first time….

Facebook’s ‘Bug Bounty Programme’: $40 000 spent so far

Facebook has spent US$40 000 over the past three weeks rewarding the discovery of glitches in its security system. Earlier this month Facebook launched…

WikiLeaks reveals how Apple fought counterfeit products in China

A global security team led by Apple came down on pirated iPhones and iPods in China, according to US Embassy documents recently released by…

Microsoft unveils more Windows 8 features

Microsoft has given the public further glimpses of what it can expect from the next generation of Windows software. According to Windows division president…

Chinese news agency urges end to ‘cancer’ of online rumours

China’s official state news agency has called on websites in the country to put a stop to the “cancer” of online rumours. The call…

CouchSurfing network gets $7.6m investment boost

CouchSurfing International, a startup devoted to connecting travellers with like-minded locals, has received a US$.7.6-million boost from investors Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network. The…

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