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Google wants patients to be able to hangout with their doctors online

Spend long enough looking up illnesses online and you’ll eventually come to the conclusion that, no matter how insignificant the symptoms, you’ll end up…

Yup, Google is now using camels to virtually map out the Arabian desert

We’ve all seen the cars with those massive Google stickers tapped to the door and a 360-degree camera on the roof, right? They’ve captured…

Yet another Apple iStore raided by bandits in Cape Town

Last evening, shortly before Canal Walk mall closed its doors, armed men stormed and robbed the iStore. The robbery follows many similar incidents that…

Samsung expects a poor quarterly profit, smartphones wearing it down

Samsung is expecting its quarterly profits to punch in at 4.1-trillion won (US$3.8-billion) — that’s about 60% down from last year’s 10.2-trillion won forecast….

Get the Popcorn: The ‘Netflix of torrents’ is finally available on iOS

Popcorn Time, the popular entertainment platform that makes watching torrented movies and series a seamless experience has finally launched on iOS, making the so-called,…

Less flash, more business: why Microsoft is sticking to the basics

Microsoft has gone back to basics. With its latest Windows update, it’s being as cautious as a group of retirees crossing a busy intersection….

Worldsecond: the worldwide photo shoot at one point in time

Worldsecond, an app funded by aker of fine watches and pens Montblanc, aims to have a collective gathering of people from all over the…

Google’s financial fiasco: No cause for panic

The fiasco around the release of Google’s Q3 financial results was plain embarrassing. From the company that is the king of search this is…

Google accidentally releases results early, stocks dive

Google today accidentally released its third quarter financial results, missing expectations and causing the US stocks to fall. The internet giant says that its…

10 of the coolest photos from inside Google’s secret data centres

Data centres aren’t usually synonymous with beauty. But, of course Google would have the most stunning server rooms in the world…. that no one…

Google told to change its privacy policy, give users more control… or else

Google’s questionable new privacy policy is in the spotlight again, after an investigation ordered by European Union data collection authorities has asked the company…

Little Nemo in Googleland: Celebrating a comic great

If you like comics there is a chance you remember the adventures on Little Nemo in Slumberland. No? Not ringing any bells? Well Google…

Goodbye Zune: Microsoft launches Xbox Music to take on iTunes and Spotify

So long, Zune… hello Xbox Music. Microsoft has been slowly retiring its Zune brand over the past year, making way for its next attempt…

Google’s African affair: An internet giant puts its money where its mouth is

At the start of last year I wrote an article for Memeburn with the only slightly tongue-in-cheek headline: “Instead of smallpox Google is colonising…

Busted: Apple caught tracking iPhone users… again

Another day another issue with an Apple product. Sigh. Except maybe you should hold off on that sigh, because this one’s serious. Apple has,…

The biggest Street View update ever includes palaces and Table Mountain

So, have you spent enough of your time swimming with turtles in Australia? Good… because Google has just released a batch of new special…

Eric Schmidt: Android-Apple fight will define industry, MS Surface could be big

Eric Schmidt thinks the battle between Google’s mobile platform Android and Apple could be the “defining fight in the industry today.” He also believes…

Google brings Steve Biko’s life, apartheid, holocaust online

This is very cool. Google is today bringing 42 historical exhibitions online telling the stories behind some of the major events of the last…

Microsoft headed in for ‘significant shift’ in its business

According to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the software company’s future may see it take a page out of Apple’s book, reports Reuters. In his…

Google Wallet for content: Is it already doomed?

Google has launched an experimental service that allows people to pay for online content using Google Wallet. According to the internet giant, the service…

Samsung adds the iPhone 5 to its patent suit against Apple

Yes, the new iPhone may have only hit the market just over two weeks ago, but that’s long enough for Samsung to analyse the…

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