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Microsoft officially launches Office for Android

Microsoft has announced that Office, PowerPoint and Excel are finally available for Android devices. These apps are not the first Microsoft apps to come…

Spike Lee to headline Digital Edge Live 2015

Renowned film director Spike Lee will be the headline speaker at this year’s Digital Edge Live event, set to take place on 9 September….

3 ways a freelance designer can freshen up your website

Are you tired of your website — frustrated by its limited capabilities and stale design? Perhaps the problems are easy to identify, but the…

Cannes Lions: Pharrell, Tim Berners Lee, and RTs from Busta Rhymes

Hello again, so as midweek approaches at the Cannes Lions I have I think finally moved from being overwhelmed to acceptance and just going…

Facebook to partner with Cell C for free internet in SA

It was only a matter of time before Facebook launched its free internet service in South Africa, but it can now be confirmed that…

Suffer from vertigo? You’ll hate Google’s El Capitan Street View

Apple may have laid claim to Yosemite and El Capitan when it came to naming versions of its operating system, but Google may just…

Google introduces News Lab, a project to birth journalists on steroids

Google has announced a new project called News Lab, designed to give journalism more power. The site is a new effort by the company…

Doug Engelbart: how Silicon Valley sidelined a true genius

Tributes to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88….

Death by email: how we broke our inboxes [part one]

This two-part post is about email. In part one, Jon Sumroy looks at why email is broken and how this affects us. In part…

7 major factors holding back Asia’s tech ecosystems

Despite the strength and diversity of Asia’s tech ecosystems, there are a lot of problems and peculiarities that hold back these countries’ web industries…

Contextual advertising: the ins, outs and where it’s heading to next

We have all been hit by contextual advertising. Whether we have acted on it or not is another question; but it has definitely impacted…

Google Reader officially says adios

Google Reader is dead. Done and dusted. The internet giant has put yet another of its services, ala Wave, to bed, but at least…

Ywiki? Yahoo! bought Qwiki, surprise surprise

Guess what? As was reported by AllthingsD and us, Yahoo! has doled out US$50-million for video maker Qwiki. The deal was announced on Yahoo!…

Beauty and startups: Yahoo!’s desperate trek back from irrelevance

Back in the 90s, the name Yahoo! was synonymous with the web and possibly all things internet-related. It was a shining example of what…

Why the idea of online ventures ‘democratising education’ is total BS

There’s a revolution in education taking place, many people have told me about the excellent education people can get through online courses, many of…

Viral mega-star Psy is now the best Korean-language teacher ever

Have always wanted to learn another language, but always felt that you’d need a viral mega-star to teach you? Then fear not, a solution…

Google Glass: assessing the promise and the threats

At this year’s Google I/O, the buzz was all about Google Glass. The device was on everyone’s mind, and even on some of the…

Want to know the truth about digital spying? Follow the money

There’s a saying in journalism, that if you want to get to the truth of a story, “follow the money.” The flow of money…

From daily deals to ‘online deals,’ Groupon pivots to restaurant bookings

Groupon wants to change. Or at the least grow up a bit. Daily deals as a core business strategy is a tough sell, and…

The end of Moore’s Law: where to next?

In the second article of the series, Memeburn columnist Graeme Lipschitz discusses how technologists are innovating to take computer processing and storage forward. So…

LG’s New 100-Inch QNED TV Is a Game-Changer for Home Entertainment in South Africa

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

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

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

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel

The most recognisable tactical pickup truck evolves