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Twitter bids farewell to Riaan Cruywagen

The Twitter community tonight joined together in bidding a fond farewell to veteran newscaster Riaan Cruywagen. The broadcaster, who has been on South African…

Samsung Galaxy Note II sales go past 5m mark

It’s big, it’s bold and it’s not selling too badly either. Samsung’s 5.5-inch Galaxy Note II has now gone past the five-million channel sales…

Samsung says it’s not using child labour following extensive audit

Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics says that none of the 105 manufacturers of its products and components employ child labour. This comes after extensive…

Indonesia, Malaysia show strongest tech growth in SE Asia

Indonesia and Malaysia’s tech sectors are showing some serious growth, leading the South East Asia region along with Thailand. According to research company GfK…

Windows 8 app store hits 20k mark

The Windows 8 app store has passed the 20 000 app mark, of which 18 000 are free. No one’s quite sure when it…

Google Now gets Popular Science’s Innovation of the Year

Google Now has won Popular Science’s Innovation of the Year, putting it in the company of past winners such as the Large Hadron Collider,…

Disney’s Star Wars droid-lookalike robot plays catch, could let dads stay on couch

Whether inspired by its recent acquisition of Lucasfilm or not, Disney Research is developing a robot that can play catch, juggle and interact with…

Wikipedia celebrates its 10th anniversary with 300+ events

Wikipedia, the online editable encyclopedia which has revolutionised the way we access information online, celebrates its 10th anniversary on Saturday. In the last decade…

Social media spawning the rise of ‘hate mobs’ across Asia

A teenager involved in a car crash that killed nine people in Thailand deserves “no happiness forever”, according to just one of more than…

Wikileaks founder speaks out against Chinese internet censorship

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is on the offensive again, blasting China as the “technological enemy” of his whistleblower website due to its aggressive internet…

YouTube serving 200-million mobile videos daily

If there was more proof needed that the internet is becoming more and more mobile, YouTube has announced that it is serving up more…

Google Science Fair seeks budding Einsteins and Curies

Fifteen years ago two young computer science students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, hypothesised that there was a better way to find information on…

Google debuts real-time translator for Android phones

The barriers of language are coming down, as Google focuses its considerable computing power on its mobile Android platform. On Wednesday, the California internet-giant…

Murdoch’s much-hyped ‘iPad newspaper’ to launch next week

News Corp. and Apple are to unveil The Daily next week, a digital newspaper for the iPad, the tablet computer Rupert Murdoch hopes may…

New tool allows you to erase those unwanted Facebook photos

A German company is poised to launch software allowing users to have photos uploaded to websites such as Facebook, MySpace and Flickr erased automatically…

Glasses-free 3D coming to the desktop

The widespread adoption of 3D technology has been slowed by the public’s dislike for wearing 3D glasses. But that is set to change, following…

More bad news for Myspace: Job cuts for nearly half its staff

Myspace announced on Tuesday it was cutting about 500 jobs, nearly half its staff, in a move seen as potentially setting the stage for…

Now Groupon faces legal wrangle over groupon.co.za domain

Groupon, the collective buying phenomenon, faces a legal wrangle over its South African domain name, groupon.co.za. The company recently announced the launch of Groupon…

Groupon moves into South Africa, India, Israel via new acquisitions

Groupon, the famous collective online buying phenomenon, has announced the launch of Groupon India, Groupon Israel and Groupon South Africa via acquisitions of similar…

Apple accessories a hit at CES despite official snub

While Apple may have snubbed the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, vendors of accessories for its hot devices turned out in force….

China’s Baidu launches English blog as part of global push

Backing up its intention to expand globally, Chinese search engine giant Baidu has launched an English-language blog on the country’s online culture, a company…

Gadget could ease terror of dentist’s drill

Patients terrified by the whirring sound of the dentist’s drill could benefit from a new gadget that cancels it out, according to researchers at…

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Your Couch is About to Become a Stadium: TCL’s QD-Mini LED Arrives in SA

AI in Recruitment: How Blue Pearl is Transforming Hiring for Modern Businesses

enza Secures $6.75M Seed Funding to Revolutionize African Payments

MGX’s $2 billion investment in Binance marks historic institutional backing

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

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