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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account briefly hijacked by OurMine

The latest high-profile CEO to wake up to a social media account breach is none other than Twitter head Jack Dorsey. The world’s first…

10 simple Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts worth remembering

Windows 10 has been out for a while now, but there are still quite a few things to like about the new Microsoft update…

1 in 5 South Africans don’t care about passwords, 8.8m hit by ‘cyber crime’

South Africans have a lot to deal with. Whether its political news, the scourge of crime or one of its national sporting teams’ latest…

Uber drivers share the ‘deepest’ passenger secrets they’ve heard

Social news site Reddit frequently serves up some lovely content, with AskReddit in particular making for some entertaining reading. So when user IamHaiseSasaki asked Uber drivers about…

A brief introduction to content marketing in South Africa

A couple of decades ago, marketers had undivided attention. With not much more than three or four marketing channels to choose from, brands could…

3 things you need to remember about creating great digital content for your target audience

SEO is getting more hardcore and complex with every Google algorithm update. It’s understandable because Google always wants to provide the best user experience…

BBC World Service announce selected teams from its hackathon in Kenya

Two teams have been selected to help the BBC expand its reach through Africa following its hackathon held earlier in Kenya. The BBC World…

Apple actually wants you to be that douchebag filming stuff on their iPad

You’re out at a concert, or festival, or any other kind of public event really, and then you see them: the person filming the…

It’s time to start treating every device as if it’s infected

Christmas has come and gone and, if gadget sales figures are anything to go by, many people were given mobile phones, PCs, laptops and tablets…

Bookmarks 2015: pixels, penguins and politics

The 2015 edition of the Bookmarks Awards, which aim to recognise the best work in digital media and marketing, took place tonight in Newtown,…

Watch the iPad magician’s mind-bending tricks on Ellen DeGeneres [video]

German magician and TV presenter Simon Pierro is at it again. This time he’s flaunting his niche iPad magic tricks on the Ellen DeGeneres…

David Sable: ‘Websites are dead’ [IAB SA Digital Summit]

“I believe that we should be changing the world with technology…the trouble is we’re not”. Those were among the opening words from Young &…

Google Science Fair 2015 is officially open for submissions

The difference between you and Ada Lovelace, according to Google, is that she tried things and you did not. Starting today, Google is accepting…

The SIM era of marketing and what it means for your integrated strategy

The dawn of the customer-centric age has undoubtedly arrived. Consumers now dictate where, when, and how information is created, spread, and consumed. In fact,…

What can South African companies learn from the massive Anthem security breach?

An attack on Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the U.S., which exposed identifiable personal data of tens of millions of people, has again…

Your old phone could be refurbished, end up as part of 120-million strong market by 2019

If you’ve ever wondered why so many retail outlets are willing to do trade-ins on your old smartphone for the newest, latest model then…

WorldRemit raises $100-million in funding to drive its global growth

WorldRemit, an online money transfer service, is making a vigorous entry into the African mobile money service market. The service has completed a funding…

Patrick Meier on single-click volunteering, the good side of tech

“If you can click on a Facebook picture, you can be a digital humanitarian,” author and technologist Patrick Meier says. The old sentiment “Information…

HTTP is getting its first upgrade since 1999. Here’s what you can expect

While the web has gone through a lot of changes since it first came into existence in the early 1990s, the fundamental tech behind…

Product Ads by Facebook will automatically show business products that you want to see

Facebook has your data and it is going to use it. With its new service, Product Ads, the company is trying to simplify how…

Google has another crack at China with new YouTube channel

Google is looking to force its way back into China, even if it means going through the back door. The internet giant has launched…

Samsung Celebrated for Transformative Tech by Consumer Technology Association

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

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

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

GTA 6 Is Officially Coming in 2026: The New Date, the Delays and the South African Reality Check

The Gaming Gear South Africans Are Actually Buying This December

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel