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Gartner’s Hype Cycle: autonomous vehicles up, NFC down

Technology research house Gartner has released its annual hype cycle graph, which shows where various technologies are in terms of maturity, business benefit and…

Could e-tail turn out to be retail’s ultimate saviour?

A recent visit to the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition in Chicago emphasised how important ecommerce has become as a sales channel for established…

Personalisation should always be the number one goal in all your digital marketing efforts

In a 2013 SAP-sponsored, Forrester thought leadership paper “Delivering New Levels Of Personalization In Consumer Engagement”, it was stated that: “Personalisation will enable firms…

Live in Cape Town? You can check out these autonomous quadrocopters in person

Over the past few years there have been plenty of videos floating around online showing quadrocopters doing incredibly cool things, like playing the James…

Microsoft wants you to creep celebs with its new iPhone app

Whether you like it or not, celebrities are a big thing. People love knowing popular personalities’ every move. To leverage this very creepy human…

Had a great year so far? Here’s how to stay ahead of the digital marketing game

If you’ve had a great year so far in terms of marketing online, well done! If your digital marketing campaign was successful the previous…

Are thermal cameras the key to halting Africa’s Ebola spread?

Ebola is a hot topic in Africa and the world. Since being detected in March this year, the incurable virus has been confirmed in…

3 Reasons the new iPad is actually a huge deal

Apple’s iPad launch hype has come and gone. A number of the speculations were proven wrong: there is no smaller iPad, there are no…

Data journalism: where coders and journos meet

How do you make sense of a growing data pile spit out by the internet? The number of journalists who can analyse and write…

How to create your own hidden network

For us privacy loons, it’s always interesting to find ways to communicate with friends and family on the internet without having to worry about…

Where spam is going in 2012 and what to do about it

Over the years Spam has evolved from consisting of annoying but otherwise harmless advertisements, to becoming a carrier of viruses and malware that can…

Privacy? Why you should actually be concerned about being tracked online

Hilton Tarrant recently wrote a piece on Memeburn entitled, “Privacy? Why you should let Google, Facebook and others track you online“. I had a…

30 brilliant African tech startups

The methodology behind this list of startups had two simple directives. First, the startup had to have African roots and secondly it had to…

8 Ways to beat digital writer’s block

Admit it; just thinking about writer’s block is frustrating you. Writer’s block is a unique obstacle in that it gets worse with time. If…

eBooks: Did Apple screw us all, or save the industry?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the American Justice Department is about to sue Apple and five of the biggest book publishers in…

The iPad tells all, Tim Cook’s wardrobe disappointment [Comic]

I think the guys at Joy of Tech were sitting just waiting for Apple to have an event. Following the launch of the device…

iPad > PCs

Apple sold more iPads last quarter than any computer manufacturer in the world sold PCs. Read that again. Apple sold 15.4-million iPads between October…

Can ultrabooks halt the ‘post PC world’ onslaught?

At Apple’s iPad launch event CEO Tim Cook waxed lyrical about being in a post PC world. The overarching message seemed to be “tablets…

10 Twitter pics from the iPad launch

So it was the iPad 3 / iPad HD / “the new iPad” launch yesterday… what, you weren’t in San Francisco? Well, the 755 seats…

Apple iPad launch event: Memeburn’s iSoftware roundup

Okay, so the new iPad doesn’t appear to have a proper name — yes everyone, Apple really is that cool — but the software…

Apple unveils new iPad with retina display, new Apple TV

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook took the stage in San Francisco today to announce the next version of the iPad, as well as iOS 5.1…

Super angel Fabrice Grinda on the emerging markets internet craze

Fabrice Grinda is a well-known emerging markets super angel investor and entrepreneur. He’s crazy about the internet in the BRIC countries, especially Brazil and…

Sam Altman vs. Elon Musk: Why OpenAI Isn’t for Sale (Even for $97.4 Billion!)

The HONOR X9c Unbreakable AI Smartphone

The Rise of Agentic AI: How Autonomous AI is Transforming Manufacturing

South Africa’s Future as a Tech Powerhouse: Stellenbosch Leads the Charge

GreenYellow South Africa Invests €10 Million in Energy Efficiency Projects Across Southern Africa

Nigerian startups can now apply for SIA Startup Foundry Cohort 2

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Golf 8.5 update with lots of Life

Tariffs trump US new car affordability needs

GS3 Emzoom R Style review