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Microsoft makes speech recognition more human

Microsoft has announced a breakthrough for speech recognition, producing a system that recognises words in a conversation as fast as a human. The new speech…

Publishing power: blasting the tech barrier to innovative ideas and content

Enterprise organisations still caught in the dark ages of taking days, even weeks to publish simple content changes need to look hard at their…

20 world airports that utterly hate Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7

Samsung’s having a right old crappy year. After the promise of its featured-packed Samsung Galaxy Note 7, its hopes to challenge Apple and others…

Rwanda’s now using drones to deliver medical supplies

Drones are all the rage these days, but they’re being put to life-saving use in Rwanda, in the form of so-called Zip drones. Zipline teamed…

Apple App Store prices drop in South Africa

Great news, Apple users. The Cupertino company has announced that App Store pricing will be adjusted for those in South Africa and New Zealand….

Facebook Messenger beta arrives with data saver

Future versions of Facebook Messenger will boast a data saving feature, this according to new beta builds of the app. In the same vein…

Google now lets you ‘Fact Check’ News articles

Mountain View’s Google has announced that its News portal will now include “Fact Check” tags to “help readers find fact checking in large news…

4 common UX mistakes in brand apps (and how to fix them)

A flawless user experience is a fairytale. Users’ needs are always in flux, and there’s a constant push and pull between mobile designers as…

Chromebook sales will reach 7.3m units in 2015, says Gartner

Chromebooks might not be widely popular as yet but it appears that they are starting to claim an increasingly large portion of the market….

Want to see real innovation? Stop wasting time and money on failed projects

Innovating should be a priority for all businesses, yet too often, businesses approach innovation with a traditional mindset: they write a business plan, secure…

Your P@s$word is a complete fail, but it might not be all your fault

The IT security industry has been warning about the fallibility of passwords for years, yet the situation hasn’t changed. Millions of people still depend…

Spotify introduces adaptable songs for runners, videos and audio clips

Spotify has introduced its coolest feature yet. From now on, runners can listen to music that adapts to the speed of their running. Spotify…

Google’s possible buy button — a local watering hole for retailers and consumers

If I am not onto something by now then I will eat my digital hat. Google, is announcing the creation of a fricken “Buy…

Orange WiFi survey offers insight into township connectivity but underestimates fundamental obstacles

A large number of people are still without internet. There are a couple of reasons for this: first, internet access is expensive. Secondly, it…

Observations about content in 2015: fluidity and self-narrative

This piece is largely referenced by my work and the outcomes of it over the last seven years working in South Africa’s digital advertising…

Billionaires, icons and movie stars — why geek is now chic

We’ve seen the unstoppable rise of the geek over the past few years. From popular culture to big business, the geeks have inherited the…

Tweets will now start showing up in your Google search results

From today, Tweets will start showing up on Google Search on mobile devices. When users are searching on the Google app or any browser…

Worldwide mobile data usage expected to double over the next four years

According to a new research by Juniper Research, data mobile traffic generated by smartphones, featurephones and tablets will double over the next four years,…

Google Chrome unleashes The Great Suspender

Chrome has introduced an extension that sounds like a film title with Denzel Washington and his definitive walk playing the lead. The Great Suspender…

Opera VP Richard Monday tells Memeburn why its mobile browser is still so important for Africa

Before the advent of smartphones, and long before iOS got popular in Africa, Africans were using their mobile devices to browse the web. In…

Taking a ‘partnership approach’ to digital pricing models

In today’s fast moving and digitally-driven world of marketing and communications, it can be difficult for small and medium sized service providers to get…

Netflixification in full force: 330m to subscribe to OTT TV services by 2019

If your idea of watching TV involves the terms “binge-watching” and “Netflix”, and if you’re completely baffled by the sight of ad break, then…

The new extreme rules in marketing

The marketing world increasingly sounds like something out of the world of the security services as the primary conversations are around behavioural profiling, extreme…

ASUS Taps Into South Africa’s AI Obsession With Smarter Devices

HONOR 400 and 400 Pro Redefine AI Smartphone Innovation for South African Users

Epson Partners with Global Icon Shakira to Inspire Youth Creativity Across Africa and Beyond

SA SMBs are AI-Ready – ASUS Report Shows Local Businesses Are Already Seeing Real ROI

Ocellics Reinvents Fund Factsheets with Automation-Driven Platform for Investment Managers

AWIEF 2025 Awards Nominations Now Open

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

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel

The most recognisable tactical pickup truck evolves

JLR channels its Camel Trophy history