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Cape Town’s Koeberg nuclear power station to get mini-desalination plant

Cape Town’s nuclear power plant Koeberg is turning to desalination as the drought deepens, Eskom reveals. A column written this week by Koeberg’s power station…

‘Judy’ malware found on Google Play Store puts 36.5m users at risk

Just when you thought that WannaCry would be the last of the big malware attacks to plague 2017, a new breed of nasty has…

Cape Town’s flexible work hours may prompt businesses to move to the cloud

The City of Cape Town’s proposal to introduce flexible hours to combat heavy traffic has cast a spotlight on existing business inefficiencies, and highlighted…

BBM CEO: we can be ‘one of the two’ top chat apps in South Africa

Remember BBM? That once iconic acronym stood for BlackBerry Messenger, one of the world’s most used chat apps. But that legacy has long since…

Zomato hacked, 17m users’ personal data leaked to the dark web

If you frequent the India-based restaurant and food review app Zomato, you should probably change your password immediately. That’s the message conveyed in a…

Microsoft Azure, data centres coming to Cape Town and Johannesburg in 2018

Microsoft South Africa today announced its Azure Cloud servers and services are finally heading to the country. Previously, African companies relied on data centres…

McDonald’s ‘Dad’ ad trends on YouTube again after global backlash

When Pepsi suggested that its product could solve the world’s problems with the help of Kendall Jenner, you might’ve thought it would be the…

DDoS extortion attacks — a new threat to look out for

It is a testament to the sustained evolution of the cybersecurity landscape that we are still regularly seeing the emergence of new threats. Distributed…

Johnny Walker adds a shot of tech, entrepreneurship to its local ad mix

It’s no small thing when one of the world’s most iconic brands abandons one of the most iconic campaigns of the last few decades…

4 productivity tools to improve virtual collaboration

Working with a group on an important project can be a frustrating experience, and using tools not suited to that sort of work only…

ONTAPtv.com: what you should know about South Africa’s new à la carte on demand video service

On Wednesday South Africa received a new video on demand (VoD) service in the shape of ONTAPtv.com. This new service, which has packages starting at…

Why Fast Moving Virtual Goods (FMVGs) are fueling informal markets

While there has been much hype around the mobile payment revolution in various informal markets in Africa and elsewhere, the reality is that these…

Majority of Facebook users in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria connect to small businesses

The majority of Facebook users in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria use the platform to connect with small businesses. This is according to new…

What should we be teaching our kids to equip them for a tech-fueled future?

We are 15 years into the 21st Century: what should we be teaching our children in the 12 years they are in school that…

5 tricks for translating email tidiness into real life organisation

There are two types of people in the world: Those who keep a tidy inbox and those who don’t — and the latter category…

#GenMobile: there’s no bail out for this banking industry problem

The finance sector is in agreement: there’s a major global threat to the success of the banking and finance industry, one that ignores boom…

Users can now order, pay, track OrderIn orders within WeChat

A few weeks ago, OrderIn, the popular online food ordering service, ran a promotion on WeChat where users could order three meals and get…

You can’t even begin to comprehend how big the Internet of Things is about to become

The extent to which the Internet of Things (IoT) is about to change our lives in the coming decades is difficult to fathom. For…

4 reasons people hate your website’s content

All businesses trying to make a buck online quickly learn that content is king. The content you put on your website or share through…

Sony uses Moneypenny to sell a camera, the Xperia Z5

The James Bond series has been pretty heavy on product placement for some time now, but things have clearly hit a new level with…

The Apple of Everything: why Cupertino is winning in the quest for the next big thing

Few launches from the last few months contained more hype and frenzy than the recent Apple event — which saw the launch of the…

Forget contactless, this is how we’ll pay for things in the future

For decades, it was cash, cards and checks, but the way we pay has evolved massively in recent years. Internet shopping brought the high…

R19,000 for Bass? Sony Tests South Africa’s Audio Appetite

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iGaming FAQ: Answering the Most Common Questions for South African Players

Why MVNOs are gaining ground — and how Huge NXTGN is accelerating the shift

How UVU Accelerate is Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in South Africa

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Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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