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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…

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Ah, the Oscars. The latest Academy Awards show was a spectacle filled with pizza, celeb selfies and the return of Pharrell’s mega hat —…

3 quick ways to up your mobile marketing efforts in Africa

Africa’s mobile revolution has been the subject of much discussion for businesses looking to target the continent’s growing consumer population using mobile phones. That…

Microsoft rebrands SkyDrive Pro as OneDrive for Business [#SPC14]

In a bid to get more competitive in the online space, Microsoft announced at its annual SharePoint conference that SkyDrive Pro will now be…

Technology will help eradicate inequality says Bill Clinton [#SPC14]

“You know,” Bill Clinton said to the massive audience at Microsoft’s Sharepoint conference in Las Vegas, almost accusatorially, “the burden of knowledge is responsibility.”…

We’re still buying loads of tablets, but iOS isn’t winning any more

There may be some truth to the notion that our love affair with tablets is over (or at least not as passionate as it…

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…

Duke Nukem Forever: Capture the controversy

Video games are no strangers to controversy and recently, there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over one of (the endlessly-in-development-but finally-going-to-be-released) Duke Nukem…

Google’s US$900-million patent binge — Will it share the protection?

Larry Dignan at ZDNet reports: “Nortel said that it plans to sell all of its remaining patents and applications for US$900-million to Google unless…

Exploring Africa’s open data

I recently discovered Afrographique, a site that does data visualisations on African data. It’s done by Ivan Colic, a South African designer, as a…

Advertising Apple: From the Mac to the iPad 2

Since the first Apple products hit the market in late 1976, the company has been creating memorable ads that began by educating the public…

Branding at the movies: Apple leads the way… again

If you’re ever in need of a hero, you could do a lot worse than Jack Bauer. Jack has busy days. When he’s not…

Opera Mini Helps South Africans Stay on Top of Every Game

High End Devices Unlock Superior Mobile Experiences in South Africa

South Africa Sees 77% Surge in Demand for AI Skills

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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