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Artist creates a 3D printed living replica of van Gogh’s severed ear

There has always been a very distinct line drawn between science and art. The left-brain and the right, linearly depicted, and figuratively drilled into…

4 reasons why you should find your next designer in South Africa

Thanks to technologies like email, Skype and Google Docs, offshore outsourcing is easier than ever before. Owing to the ubiquity of sophisticated communications technology,…

How should the techies in your company position themselves in relation to your business strategy?

In the previous articles in this series, we established two key requirements for aligning your business and technology strategies for achieving real value. Business…

Can’t make it to Brazil? Go inside the World Cup stadiums on Street View

Love soccer but don’t have the motivation (or means) to get off the couch and attend the upcoming FIFA World Cup games in person?…

Apple’s ad wants you to know that the iPhone is still its best fitness device

Apple’s latest ad confirms something we’ve thinking for a while now: when it comes to health and fitness, smartphones are pretty much still the…

Big ideas need big data and big love

It dawned on me two years ago that no digital idea can be truly great without participation. It also dawned on me that there…

Google offers mail encryption tool for paranoid Chrome users

Google announced a new tool called End-to-End that encrypts your email when it leaves your web browser until it is decrypted by the recipient…

Tips for live blogging with Coveritlive

When a Turkish Airlines aeroplane crashed on the runway at Schiphol Airport in February 2009, reporting started with a simple tweet by an eyewitness….

Africa’s road to technological success lies in hardware production

As the founder of the non-profit African Institute of Technology and Fasmicro(AFRIT), Africa’s first integrated circuit design house, Nigerian academic and inventor Ndubuisi Ekekwe…

Wikileaks temporarily shuts to fight ‘arbitrary & unlawful’ financial blockade

Wikileaks has announced the temporary suspension of all “publication” as a result of the financial blockade it faces from MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Western Union,…

So you think you know mobile in Africa? [Video]

We all know cellphones are vital to Africa. They’ve allowed large sections of the continent to entirely skip wired communication. This means that Africa…

BlackBerry is back

With hindsight huge issues, such as the recent BlackBerry service outage, may not have been as critical as they seemed at the time. If…

P2P DNS – Taking ownership of the internet

DNS is one of those core technologies on which the internet runs. For most end users, DNS is pretty much invisible until they want…

11 African tech innovators to keep your eye on

Prominent technology conference Tech4Africa has announced 11 finalists for its inaugural Innovation Award. The award aims to recognise the important role technological innovation will…

Google is changing, for better or worse

Google’s large scale actions within the industry might be grabbing all the headlines, but it’s the seemingly small changes that might have an even…

‘I need you to make me a viral video’ – the 3Rs

It is a common request from clients wanting to embrace the whole online thing. There’s a fantastic chance that your MD, CEO, CFO, [Insert…

This week in design: Floating orchestras, Mark Shuttleworth talks Ubuntu

Looking to forms of functional design, we discover clocks that tell stories, orchestras that float, fashion that becomes food, bacteria that becomes fashion and…

10 strategic technologies you need to keep your eye on

A strategic technology is defined as a technology that can have a significant impact on a company. It may be an existing technology that…

BBM is not dying, it’s BlackBerry’s secret weapon

Much has been made about BlackBerry being backed into a corner. Its device sales are “falling” (not so, it has 20-million more users today…

Meet Romo, the robotic smartphone

I guess I’m getting tired of reading about nebulous stuff happening in the cloud, so I’m spending a bit more time checking out what…

You better scale up: The ecommerce boom is upon us

By 2015 companies will generate 50% of their online business via their social presence and mobile applications. This bold claim comes from prominent research…

OPPO South Africa Enters New Growth Phase with Jace Chen as CEO

Understanding Forex Market Liquidity in South Africa

South Africa’s Top Gamers Crowned at MTN SHIFT Gaming Grand Finals

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

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

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel