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Mobile payments: BLE vs NFC isn’t a fair fight

There’s a new kid on the block in the payments environment that promises to deliver even greater convenience and practicality. It’s called ‘Bluetooth Low…

Two sides of the same coin: does Mt. Gox reflect a broken Bitcoin industry?

Now that Mt. Gox, once the largest cryptocurrency exchange, has collapsed, skeptics have seen fit to throw punches at the Bitcoin currency — but…

Innovation trumps constraints: why retailers are ready for a mobile payment revolution

Retailers and brands are standing on the verge of a veritable mobile payment revolution as mainstream interest and unprecedented ease-of-use drive adoption among consumers….

6 quick tips for optimising your site’s mobile experience

Creating a good mobile experience for your target audience isn’t difficult, but it’s required if you are serious about engaging with your audience on…

BlackBerry: there is sponsored content on BBM, but no ads…promise

If you’re one of BlackBerry’s extended BBM testers, you may have noticed that the Canadian company recently started pushing out sponsored content on its…

5 Chinese online trends every developer needs to know about

With 1.3 billion people supporting a booming mobile and software development industry, China is the blue whale of emerging tech markets. China will be…

Microsoft’s message to its customers: get to the cloud, be transparent [#SPC14]

Microsoft is trying to do for our work experience what Google did for our web experience — it wants to be the gateway to…

Should games be dealing with real-life tragedies?

When the Columbine school shootings happened in April 1999 Jerald Block, a US psychiatrist, made the suggestion that the two assailants, Eric Harris and…

Google’s search for quality — Analysing the recent Panda update

Google regularly changes its algorithm and it’s a smart move because all the companies that were trying to game Google — and were succeeding…

‘The more you disclose, the more you are rewarded,’ says Boing Boing co-editor

Privacy and social media are two of the central concerns for Cory Doctorow, the 40-year old Canadian blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who…

ProPublica wins Pulitzer with digital-only series

For the first time ever, a Pulitzer Prize was awarded for a ‘digital-only’ story. ProPublica, a non-profit news startup, scooped up a Pulitzer Prize…

Ford: Blurring the lines between mechanical and digital

Motor vehicles are not exempt from innovation and Ford is leading the way in technological advancements by integrating SYNC, the new voice recognition and…

Water and flow: The focus of TEDx Cape Town

South Africa may have a digital divide, but more importantly, it has a cognitive divide. Too many of us grow up in households where…

The IFA global press conference 2011

The IFA Global Press Conference takes place this weekend in Alicante, Spain. The conference is a showcase of some of the top electronic brands…

African developers to compete on innovative Android mobile apps

Every day more than 300 000 Android devices are activated globally. A growing number of these mobile device activations are in markets across Africa,…

Magnum’s compelling new Flash advertising campaign

An astonishing new advertising campaign for Magnum Ice Cream’s has just been launched, which exploits all the best aspects of the social web to…

Shift in revenue for Google partner sites

Google‘s first quarter 2011 financial results show a significant shift in revenues away from its partner sites in its AdSense advertising network. Google [$GOOG]…

The ‘hyper-fragmented’ state of the music industry: Where to from here?

The digital, online revolution has had a profound effect on almost every industry you can think of. But perhaps the hardest hit of all…

Artificial limitations: How will copyright hold up to 3D printing?

As content moved into the digital realm, copyright found itself facing tremendous new challenges. Digital content may require resources to create, but it requires…

Six malware milestones: From Brain to Anna Kournikova

A portmanteau of malicious and software, ‘malware’ is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “malicious software, such as a virus, which is specifically…

What digital tribes can learn from Native Americans

For all our ability to change the world around us with new technology, humans have never been very good at naming our new inventions….

Your brand and mobile: How to make it all happen

Advertising campaigns used to be every marketers logistic nightmare. From the initial executive pitch to allocating resources, time, banners and newspaper ads, logos, video…

Android VP tries to allay fears of developer community

The Android mobile platform is a runaway smash hit with users around the world. Research firm Gartner has released a report predicting that nearly…

Opera Mini Data Campaigns Reshape Mobile Access in South Africa

Affordable 5G Phones Could Accelerate Digital Inclusion

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

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