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How tech is changing the nature of time tracking

Time tracking has been a part of the daily work day for as long as most of us remember. From the early days of…

Tim Cook takes the worst photo with an iPhone, faces Twitter ridicule

Apple has long promoted the iPhone camera capabilities, in fact it is one of the selling features of the iPhone. The company has a…

5 steps to making your WordPress site mobile friendly

Mobilegeddon or Google’s 2015 mobile-friendly update cemented the fact that we live in a mobile-first world. The algorithm update by the search-engine giant favored…

The sharing economy is doing amazing things for mobile payments

Over the past few years, the sharing economy has gone from something that a few tech-savvy idealists were excited about to a fundamental part…

Tigo Tanzania is giving its cutomers free access to WhatsApp

While MTN and Vodacom are waging war on OTTs like WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, Hangouts and so on in South Africa, in other markets telecommunications…

Visa opens up payment tech to devs around the globe

Visa this week announced that the launch of Visa Developer, a platform which it says makes its payment technologies freely available to developers as…

Al Jazeera launches audio-streaming app aimed at low bandwidth markets

The market for providing news to areas starved of bandwidth appears to be growing. Al Jazeera this week announced a new audio web app…

Yup, this just happened: Friskies ranked the top 50 most influential cats on the internet

The internet can sometimes be a confusing place — I mean, how do you keep up with all the cats? Pet food brand Friskies…

Google is targeting the next billion (and Microsoft) with Android One

At Google’s I/O conference last month, the internet giant unveiled Android One – an initiative that will help connect (at least) the next billion…

Feed a Child responds after controversial ad causes social media uproar

“The average domestic dog eats better than millions of children.” It was a statement hoping to urge the public into helping to to feed…

Is Greenpeace taking on Shell with LEGO?

“Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you are part of a team,” so says the now famous song ingrained in our brains by…

JK Rowling crashes Pottermore with a new update on Harry Potter’s life

Desperately missing updates on Harry, Ron and Hermione but not satisfied with the ending of JK Rowling’s last book in the series? Of course…

Can tech help us turn neighborhoods back into communities? OurHood thinks so

This is interesting. It’s called OurHood and it’s a mobile and web platform trying to cover a slew of hyperlocal needs, starting with Green…

4 content marketing mistakes you absolutely have to avoid making

A detailed content marketing strategy can be defined in plain English as the planning, writing, delivering, and measurement of informational content online. A good…

Marketing in Africa? SMS is definitely not worth writing off

The relatively low penetration of smartphones in Africa, paired with high data costs, means that the humble SMS remains the best way for organisations…

South Africa’s cashless future relies on localisation, not innovation

The recent article by Memeburn senior reporter Stuart Thomas titled ‘Don’t burn your wallet: why SA hasn’t reached its mobile, cashless future (yet)’ gave…

3 reasons why big government tech projects can fail hard

Anyone who’s ever tackled a big online project knows just how much capacity there is for things to go spectacularly wrong. It’s bad enough…

Want to red card fraudsters? Here’s how to do it during the World Cup and beyond

The 2014 FIFA World Cup has been described as the ‘digital World Cup’. According to Google, the massive rise in mobility and Internet access…

5 small steps to big data marketing success

The phrase ‘big data’ has not always been associated with the largely qualitative field of marketing, but that’s exactly what’s bringing success to so…

Uber [enter African city here] is happening sooner than you think

Like it or not, Uber’s path to world domination cannot be stopped. The San Francisco-based car ordering technology company is making its play for…

6 ways proper tech can help bridge the business-IT divide

Having now written a total of seven articles examining different aspects of what is needed to add real value to your business using information…

10 commandments that will transform your email marketing efforts forever

To win at any game, you need to first learn its rules inside out and then practice, practice, practice till you become an expert…

Business at the heart of the arts: what we can all learn from the new National Arts Festival site

Just like the National Arts Festival itself, the new festival website has plenty of colour and personality. The site got a much-needed makeover just…

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

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

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV