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Google adds new Detective Pikachu Playmoji pack for Playground

To celebrate the upcoming Detective Pikachu movie Google revealed a new Pokemon themed Playmoji pack on Friday. “Now you can partner up with Detective…

Google’s will soon let you auto-delete your personal data

Google’s giving users more control over your data it stores on its servers. The company on Wednesday announced a new set-and-forget auto-delete feature that…

Crypto-mining malware, phishing attacks on the rise across Africa

Digital security firm Kaspersky Lab in Q1 2019 reported more than 1.6-million malware attacks per day across the META region, it announced at its…

Next Windows 10 update will mirror your Android notifications to your PC

On Friday, Microsoft revealed that the latest Windows 10 Insider Preview Build will include support for Android notifications. This means that users will soon…

Google Fit debuts on iOS, supports the Apple Watch too

Google on Thursday announced that its health tracking app, Google Fit, will now be available on iOS devices. Google Fit tracks users physical activities…

You can Google ‘Thanos’ to snap away half your search results

Avengers: Endgame hit cinemas worldwide on Friday and to celebrate Google has planted a fun little Easter egg for users who search for “Thanos”. Now,…

4 telltale signs that its time to change your ERP software

In tough economic times, it becomes tempting to sweat your assets. But running an outdated enterprise resource planning (ERP) system may become more of…

Looking beyond to cross the security skills chasm

Cyber-attacks, like a big old snowball, continue to grow as it rolls down the mountain. And in its wake are the good guys aka…

M&C Saatchi snaps up Dalmatian Advertisng

M&C Saatchi has on Tuesday announced that it had acquired Dalmatian Advertising, a small Cape Town-based agency. Formerly known as Domino Digital, the agency’s…

4 weird Parlotones marketing mashups through the years

Whether you like the band’s music or not, you can’t deny that South African rockers The Parlotones are marketing powerhouses, owing to its partnerships…

Fulfilling the promise of Blockchain: a future financial game changer

An internet of finance. The renaissance of money. If the previous decade was the age of mobile banking, the next looks set to be…

The skill of delivering real business value through ERP

Key to the successful implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project is ensuring that the entire project value chain is aligned with the…

iPhone 6 ruled as a rip-off of Chinese phone by Beijing patent authority

Looking back, Apple probably wouldn’t mark 2016 as a good year. After it was embroiled in a battle with the FBI in early 2016,…

Sir Martin Sorrell: disruption means companies are more local and global all at once

Disruption comes in two forms: geography and technology. That was the message from WPP founder and CEO Sir Martin Sorrell at the Consumer Goods…

Is technology the answer to South Africa’s massive youth unemployment?

It has been 40-years since 16 June 1976 when a group of brave youngsters in Soweto rose up against the tyranny of the Apartheid…

Employees share passwords: here’s what that means for your business

Sometimes employees feel they need to supplement their income, and a surprising few will even go as far as sell company secrets to do…

Digital assistants, social & mobile: 7 new SEO strategies to look out for

Is SEO dead? If you are an online marketer, you must have come across this question on a myriad of forums. In fact, a…

Relevance, value, creative and the customer in digital marketing

I love the industry I work in with a passion, but the truth is we know that the old game is over. Creativity is…

There’s money in smileys: emoji-based ad-targeting comes to Twitter

For users, Twitter’s just getting stranger and stranger. It’s latest move however will probably be loved by advertisers. The company has announced that it…

Training teachers to use elearning material will improve basic education in South Africa

When I talk to people about my company’s approach to technology in education, I’m often asked: “Does e-learning do more harm than good?” ELearning…

HTML5 has changed the internet but the world’s now ready for HTML6

Since the dawn of the World Wide Web in 1989, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) has evolved exponentially in the last two decades. The foundation…

When AI Sees What We See – Why Its “Vision” Feels Weird (and Slightly Creepy)

The Comic Chaos of Sassy Smart Homes

Optasia’s $375 Million JSE IPO Could Redefine African AI Fintech

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

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

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel