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Swapping paper for pixels: Kenya aims to digitize school curriculum by 2015

Kenya’s education minister has announced that his ministry is planning to digitize the entire school curriculum by 2015, a move that will see the…

China asks businesses to help it censor the web

Chinese authorities have roped in businesses to help them stiffen their stranglehold on online information. According to The New York Times, Web police units…

Big Brother? Gov’t user data requests to Google nearly double in three years

Governments who want to know about their citizens are increasingly turning to the company that knows you better than anyone else. Google says it…

Nokia’s new mapping service is HERE and set to hit iOS and Android

Maps are important, just ask Apple. There is superior mapping software though, and it belongs to Nokia. Nokia’s new mapping product HERE is not yet…

Doogle vs Google? Tech giant issues SA company with letter of demand

Ever used online directory and job site Doogle? Well, it’s definitely on Google’s radar… the tech giant’s legal team has reportedly issued a letter…

Google, 8ta introduce free mobile search, mail in SA with Free Zone

Google, in collaboration with mobile network operator 8ta, has announced “Free Zone” — a project that allows users with an 8ta sim card to…

Goodbye to Windows and all that: Steven Sinfosky leaves Microsoft

Steven Sinofsky is leaving Microsoft, having just led the release of Windows 8 and, in part, helping to give the company a fresh dose…

Social networks can help prevent disease outbreaks, pandemics

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter greatly help in detecting and containing the spread of pandemics, experts at a global health conference…

Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine’s Person of the Year

2010 has been an outrageously successful year in the life of Mark Zuckerberg. The 26-year old web entrepreneur, who founded Facebook while at university,…

WikiLeaks provides ‘Napster moment’ in evolution of web

If 1999 was the Year of Napster in the history of the internet then 2010 will go down as the Year of WikiLeaks. Napster,…

Apple accused of selling pirated Japanese iBooks

Publishers in Japan demanded on Tuesday that Apple stop selling pirated digital copies of novels by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami‘s “1Q84”, in its…

Facebook creating ‘second internet’ in challenge to Google

Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. While Google…

Our top 50 passwords: What the Gawker hack revealed

Global fast-food giant McDonald’s and world-famous entertainment blog, Gawker, have both admitted that hackers had helped themselves to data about people who take part…

Inventor of USB Flash Drive back to topple the SD card

Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the…

Die Antwoord steals the show on YouTube for 2010

For the year of 2010 South Africans watched clips dominated by music and politics on YouTube, with Afrikaans trailer-trash rap group Die Antwoord stealing…

Virtual pillow-talk from an iPhone app

Lonesome South Koreans who have trouble finding true love can now get video calls from a virtual girlfriend, available as an iPhone app. South…

WikiLeaks hacks: ‘More cybermob, than cyberwar’

Despite the overtones, the attacks on credit card and other websites by supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are more political protest than real…

OpenLeaks in bid to rival WikiLeaks

Former WikiLeaks supporters at odds with founder Julian Assange will shortly launch OpenLeaks, a rival project aiming to get secret documents directly to media,…

SA goes crazy for Zef, Bieber and Malema: Google Zeitgeist

Pop sensations, both local and international, dominated South Africa’s Google search in 2010. From Justin Bieber to Locnville, Jack Parow to Nicki Manaj, local…

Russia’s DST backs Groupon’s rejection of Google

Alexander Tamas, partner at Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a major investor in Facebook, Twitter, Zynga, and Groupon, defended Groupon’s rejection of Google’s acquisition bid,…

‘Anonymous’ fails to take down Amazon.com in support of WikiLeaks

After taking down the websites of Visa, Mastercard and others with cyber attacks, supporters of WikiLeaks tried but failed on Thursday to knock online…

The Zeitgeist in search: Gadgets displace celebrities in 2010

The world of technology trumped celebrities when it came to search queries for 2010 on the world’s largest search engine. Some of the hottest…

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

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