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Meet Google Tour Builder, a new way to tell travel stories using Google Earth

Have you ever come back from traveling somewhere and thought that telling stories and posting a few pictures on social media just wouldn’t cut…

Google kills child sex abuse search results, will go global within six months

Google is getting serious about child pornography. Very serious. In an op-ed in the UK’s Daily Mail, Google chairman Eric Schmidt reveals some of…

Jump in a gondola and explore Venice with Google’s new Street View update

Ah, the life of a Googler. First the Street View team was hiking the Grand Canyon, then climbing to the top of the world’s…

The five stages of Google grief: how secure search has the online marketing space in mourning

Approximately two years after Google first clamped down on user privacy and secure search, the change has begun to have severe effects on how…

Want to play with a bit of geek history? Apple II OS now open to public

Retro tech lovers, you have our full permission to geek out after reading this: the operating system that ran the iconic Apple II is…

10 reasons YouTube’s new Google+ comments really are a good thing

If any of you netizens have not heard of this apparently catastrophic news, YouTube comments are now handled by Google+. Yes I know, the…

Google lends disaster relief tools to typhoon stricken Philippines

The massive typhoon that crashed into the Philipines late last week has left untold devastation in its wake. Estimated to be the largest in…

Mac Defender — The phishing scam that rocked Apple

Apple’s biggest selling point for its Macs has always been the perceived imperviousness to “malware”. The fact that what some regard as the world’s…

Reports: Google to announce smartphones will replace credit cards

If one thought that Google would take a minute’s rest after yet another highly successful I/O conference earlier this month where a slew of…

Google Music: What it is and what it means

The internet and music industry waited with baited breath for the highly anticipated Google Music to finally make its first appearance. With the massive…

Insights into what really happens at Googleplex

Douwe Osinga, a software engineer, recently left Google after seven years. He’s written a series of blog posts explaining why he left and also…

Facebook vs Google: The dirty tricks campaign

Journalists and bloggers around the world last week woke up to an email screaming in all caps: “Google quietly launches sweeping violation of user…

Microsoft close to US$7-8 billion Skype deal

A week has barely passed since news broke that internet telephony company Skype was potentially up for sale. Today those rumours were bolstered with…

5 tips from Google for the Royal Wedding

Millions of people around the world are waiting in anticipation for the big royal event in London on Friday 29 April, 2011. For those…

Apple responds: ‘We are not tracking your location’

There has been plenty of buzz about the iPhone and its operating system, iOS 4, and how it has been secretly tracking the locations…

Google builds its energy business with $100M wind farm investment

For a long time now, the company that built its business on search and advertising has been rooting around in the electricity and energy…

iPhone 4 & 3G iPad secretly tracking your every movement

Much is made of privacy and security in the digital age and while a lot of it seems overblown there are things to be…

List of Google’s autocomplete guesses with one letter

Google is cocky enough to initiate the autocomplete search function after you type in just one letter. This is how Google explains the autocomplete…

Google’s search for quality — Analysing the recent Panda update

Google regularly changes its algorithm and it’s a smart move because all the companies that were trying to game Google — and were succeeding…

Shift in revenue for Google partner sites

Google‘s first quarter 2011 financial results show a significant shift in revenues away from its partner sites in its AdSense advertising network. Google [$GOOG]…

Google’s US$900-million patent binge — Will it share the protection?

Larry Dignan at ZDNet reports: “Nortel said that it plans to sell all of its remaining patents and applications for US$900-million to Google unless…

South Africa’s Tourism Comeback Accelerates as Arrivals Surge Past Pre Pandemic Levels

JSE Expands Its SME Rise Capital Matching Roadshow to Gauteng and Limpopo as Demand for Funding Surges

MTN Expands Black Friday Into Black FriYAY With Bigger Deals and Added Value Across SA

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

Black Friday – The Tech Deals South Africans Are Actually Hunting For

South Africa’s Black Friday Spend Is Set to Break Records Again and Ecentric’s Dashboard Shows It in Real Time

Sony’s ULT POWER SOUND Range Lands in South Africa With a Bass-Heavy Lineup Built for Local Music Lovers

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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