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Crazy inventor creates X-men Pyro inspired wrist mounted flamethrowers

Modern day Victor Frankenstein, Colin Furze, is at it again, inventing a storm of X-men gadgets. The latest in his series of seriously dangerous…

Facebook’s back up, but Thailand’s still blocking 219 sites after coup

In the first few days of Thailand’s military coup, the country’s MICT shut down over 100 websites deemed a threat to the country’s stability….

Mary Meeker files: we are entering the age of the reimagination of everything

Once a year, all of the tech world stops to listen to what influential analyst Mary Meeker has to say. According to Meeker, current…

Screw innovation, the New York Times need to focus on TBD

The New York Times Innovation Report has been ripped to pieces by many brains in the media world but the issues are the familiar…

Break. Make. Create: Your survival depends on it

Embracing a creative ideology and accepting that creativity is a value driver has always come easy to me. However, finding empirical evidence on the…

This new Google experiment lets you program a quantum computer

Quantum computing has been promising a lot for a couple of years now. For the average person though, it’s all a little bit difficult…

JJ Abrams is giving you the opportunity to be in the next ‘Star Wars’ movie

Always wondered what it must be like to be behind the scenes on a mega sci-fi movie watching aliens go by? You may have…

Activism or slacktivism: Is the web making it too easy?

When Sipho Hlongwane (@comradesipho), a writer and political and social commentator, proudly accepted the ANC Youth League’s disparaging moniker of “Desktop Activist” in March…

Facebook showing real potential as a search engine

With the recent improvements to Facebook’s analytics via the new Insights Dashboard, I did a bit of research into the current search volume on Facebook…

Transforming data into information: 4 important steps

Data is meaningless. Bunches of numbers and ratios mean nothing without a context. Data on its own can’t help us do anything better. Information however,…

5 popular open source eCommerce platforms

There are so many off-the-shelf web solutions out there, many website owners are asking: Why should I bother building it myself? When thinking about…

FNB announce host of PayPal features, plan to implement Rand

South African bank First National Bank (FNB) rolled into a crisp and windy Cape Town last night with a challenge to entrepreneurs to embrace…

Is “The Singularity” the elite geeks’ version of “The Rapture”?

The Singularity is a belief that our technology will inevitably collide with our biology, and that this will give us mastery over our mortality….

Are classified sites in Africa profitable?

You’ve probably heard of these very popular online classified sites, Craigslist and Gumtree. Both sites offer buyers and sellers an opportunity to engage in…

A few reasons why Google TV won’t succeed

Google has been pretty busy in the first half of 2010, and one of their new products, dubbed Google TV, is an ambitious play…

Q&A with Eve Gray: The Kindle, iPad, WWII and the future of publishing

It is (too) easy to categorise reactionary attitudes like Nadine Gordimer opining that deadtree books are better than screens as a generation thing. It’s…

Apple’s folly: Why the iPhone is in trouble

On the surface Apple looks set to rule the world. The pedigreed Silicon Valley computing company has created what is indisputably the most sophisticated…

Is your internet really going to be faster?

Whilst we all heralded the arrival of ‘uncapped’ ADSL broadband in South Africa, and the pending 10Mbps ADSL speeds, that’s only half the story….

Is mobile VoIP finally ready for the mainstream market?

Mobile VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has carried so much hype and potential for what now seems forever. But when will mobile VoIP finally…

Is the Semantic Web just a dream?

While we all continue to talk up the benefits of Web 2.0 and all that it brings, there are a number of companies and…

Mind your Google language

While we carry on in our Anglophone world, assuming that English is the general lingua franca of the world wide web, it’s worth pointing…

20 hot Nigerian startups to watch

As we gradually approach the end of the first half of 2010, we are expecting to see more web 2.0 innovations and mobile-based platforms…

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