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Mobile fraud on the rise: how to fight back

Think that you are safe? Believe that your mobile device is secure and your transactions completely protected? You’d be wrong… In February 2014, RiskIQ…

Meet SAM, the futuristic Lego-style tech building the next generation of thinkers

Lego has been a part of childhoods since ever, the most simplistically designed blocks fitting together to form megastructures, movies and finding them in…

Social media to contribute 13bn transactions to mobile money market

Mobile payments are a growing force around the globe — from the sophisticated tap ‘n go mechanics of Apple Pay to the continued dominance…

Connecting the Karoo: how the internet is changing South Africa’s semi-desert heartland

Back in the Victorian era of the late 1800s, farm life in the Karoo was hard and isolated. There were great distances between farmsteads,…

Mobile will inevitably allow South Africans to ditch their wallets

After years of hype the mobile commerce bandwagon may have just rolled into town. And if projections are anything to go by, the days…

Old malware, new tricks

Taking the path of least resistance is natural – it’s why rivers flow around mountains, and electricity finds the easiest route to earth. It…

Women In Engineering Fellowship Week: empowering the next generation of women innovators

Sixty of the top female engineering students were selected from universities around South Africa to attend the Women In Engineering (WomEng) Fellowship Week from…

Facebook’s secret number and stalking shoppers: top stories you should read

Would you still be as keen to post your life updates on Facebook if you realised that while most of your ‘friends’ had seen…

Security agencies should pay for data like everyone else: here’s why

Declan McCullagh, the Washington correspondent for CNET, reports that the NSA and other agencies can force tech firms to comply with demands for real-time…

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop transport system not a vacuum tunnel, here’s all we know

A simple tweet is all it took. Elon Musk, tech billionaire and founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, has sent the tech world into…

Your grammar is irrelevant — how technology is influencing language

Love it or hate it, our interaction with our digital devices greatly influences the way we communicate. In fact, it has the potential to…

Big data: not just a buzzword but a fact of life

Big data. These two words have surfaced on almost every technology outlet recently and many people have been as uninspired by them as they…

Dropbox’s dreams and hiding from the NSA: top stories you should read

Take some cloud storage, throw in a bit of paranoia and a self driving car and what do you get? Some of the top…

Is a gig of bandwidth really enough for anyone anymore?

Last week my mother told me that a gig a month is more than enough for her. Well of course it is mum, but…

Death by email: how to take back your inbox [part two]

I guarantee 100% that, if you follow the advice in this post, your email misery will be gone for ever. This is the second…

PayPal Galactic: is the move into space payments smart or just plain crazy?

To quote Captain Kirk in the classic Star Trek TV series, “Space, the final frontier”. This has been the premise of many a sci-fi…

Orange reveals 5-step plan for smart cities of the future

Orange, the leading French telecom operator, has just brought forward its vision of the future of smart cities and how the company plans on…

Kipochi brings Bitcoin to Africa through M-Pesa

Kipochi just launched its Bitcoin transfer service in Kenya using M-Pesa as its running platform. This service would allow people across Kenya to send…

Is Silicon Valley ageist? The young average age of its workers suggests so

Quentin Hardy on the New York Times Bits column, reports that a survey of tech companies by Payscale, shows a very young median age…

The end of Moore’s law: Q&A with POET technologies’ Peter Copetti

In the third and final installment on the Moore’s Law series, Graeme Lipschitz sits down with POET technologies executive, Peter Copetti, to discuss their…

We’ve come a long way baby: the evolution of listening

Check this out. It’s an image comparing the advancement of music technology to human evolution. Tweeted out by live music video site OurVinyl, the…

Doug Engelbart: how Silicon Valley sidelined a true genius

Tributes to the genius of computer pioneer Doug Engelbart are flooding the web following the announcement of his death at the age of 88….

Death by email: how we broke our inboxes [part one]

This two-part post is about email. In part one, Jon Sumroy looks at why email is broken and how this affects us. In part…

MTN Clinches SA’s Best Network Title Again – Backed by Data and R14bn Infrastructure Push

Xiaomi’s “Screens for Change” Powers Township Esports With Purpose and Mandela’s Legacy

SAVCA 2025 Industry Awards Spotlight Africa’s Most Ambitious Private Capital-Backed Innovators

Ecentric and MoneyBadger Partner to Bring Bitcoin Payments to South African Retailers

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

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel

The most recognisable tactical pickup truck evolves