General Tech

Global device market on the up thanks to cheaper tablets, smartphones

The global tech giants will be pleased to hear this. We’re still buying devices in their billions, with little sign of a slowdown in…

The future of the web and being cool: .CO’s CEO talks the power of domains

How does a domain get cool? How does a domain becoming so trendy that everybody wants one? These are the questions that CEO of…

Obama won, Wolverine fired, Google Watch coming: #StuffToKnow this week

Well, the US government shut down (because of old men acting like children who didn’t get the toys they wanted), and after 16 day…

Illusions, whistleblowing and Anonymous: the power of the unseen [Wired 2013]

The mid-morning session (dubbed “The Power of the Unseen”) of Wired 2013 kicked off with a rousing performance from TED alumni and cyber-illusionist, Marco…

Motorola’s getting tough on crime in South Africa: here’s how

Violent crime is on the rise in South Africa, and Motorola is developing new technologies to help combat it. The LA Times reports South…

9 health and medicine websites you should bookmark right away

With so much content available to you online, it’s hard to filter out and decipher what the best sources of information are. This is…

Want proof of big data’s dismal failure? Look at economics

The excitement about “big data” in tech circles is very optimistic and many companies are rushing to hire “Data Scientists” to profit from the…

When piracy goes mainstream

I was quite taken aback to discover a very interesting article posted on the ABC news network’s Technology Blog, called The Case For Piracy….

Big Data: It’s both about size and technique

We’re in the age of the petabyte, exabyte and zettabyte. We’re being overwhelmed with information, and we don’t know what to do about it….

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…

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…

Münchausen by internet — The little known but not uncommon illness

We all know that one person. One who is either terminally ill, has some or other rare disease or that one who has tried…

3D printing for kids with Origo

When I was a kid, you could give me a stick and a puddle of mud and I would be entertained for hours. In…

How open source can help you build a voice-activated robotic arm

Sometimes you stumble on the most interesting projects, and you get all inspired to start making stuff yourself. The other day, I came across…

Security by obscurity returns to online cryptography

It seems that a new research paper released by the Royal Holloway, University of London, and University of Twente is ready to change the…

Amazon’s Kindle Fire is not an iPad killer, but boy it changes the game

Content. Content. Content. Apple gets it. And Amazon gets it. Is it any coincidence then that tablets created by these two companies will be…

MySQL website hacked

Yikes. I feel like I’ve taken a severe leaning toward being a security reporter, but I can’t help it. Every day there seems to…

Is your business ‘all in’ for the cloud?

Steve Ballmer’s quote — “for the cloud, we’re all in“; spoken in March last year, is rapidly becoming IT folklore. For most industry watchers…

Good riddance Carol Bartz

Personally, I’ve never liked Carol Bartz. For some reason, it is impossible for her name to be mentioned without a mental image of Sarah…

A new era of leadership is dawning in Silicon Valley

With the recent departure of the foul-mouthed, gun-slinging Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, the resignation of ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt and the stepping down…

Netflix lands in Latin America and Caribbean

US online video rental giant Netflix has announced the launch of its television and movie streaming service across Latin America and the Caribbean. The…

The ‘Chinese Room’ and why computers can’t figure out sarcasm

Econsultancy.com, which recently launched its Twitter for Business Guide, suggests that, contrary to popular belief, most of the sentiment posted about brands on Twitter…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

South Africa’s Deskless Workers: A Workforce Under Strain

How AI is Rewriting Urban Planning in Developing Regions

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

Jaguar rebranding creative is crazy – good?

German luxury cars require a rethink for China

Trump wins – Tesla goes beyond $1 Trillion