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PopiMedia, ‘that’ billboard, digital’s state of emergency: 5 Memeburn articles you loved this week

Take a moment. Breathe. You’ve made it to Friday and you’ve got the weekend to look forward to. Before you throw off those pants…

We’re buying more devices, but spending less on them

The global hunger for devices shows no sign of abating, with 2.4-billion units expected to ship in 2016, a 1.9% increase from 2015. At…

Gartner: government more likely to embrace cloud for security reasons than convenience

Governments are moving the cloud faster than ever but, according to Gartner, they’re not doing so for the sake of convenience, cost saving, or…

2016: the security challenge

It is a fact that cyber attacks are growing more sophisticated. Protecting a company’s information and data seems to be an arduous and complicated…

PayU appoints ex-PayPal exec as CEO

Naspers-owned payment services provider PayU on Tuesday announced the appointment of ex-PayPal Europe VP Laurent Le Moal as CEO. According to a press release…

5 security new year’s resolutions everyone should keep in 2016

Resolutions. Everyone makes them but not everyone sticks to them. But when it comes to IT security, organisations cannot afford to be complacent. Here…

Rising US dollar sees IT spend stagnate

Global IT spending is forecast to total US$3.54-trillion dollars in 2016. That’s a big number, but it’s only 0.6% larger than it was in…

Elon Musk wants to bring ‘low cost internet’ satellites to the world

Elon Musk never ceases to surprise. Even when the tech billionaire entrepreneur is up to something surprising it’s still in apt character. From building…

Longline: phishing’s most dangerous evolution to date

The past few years have seen a tremendous rise in the use of email as an attack vector for enterprises and larger entities. These…

Is the cloud the real victim in celebrity image leak scandals?

Unless you’ve been ignoring the Internet for the past month, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the iCloud hack that has resulted in the leak of…

Technology and disease control: the Ebola outbreak and the need for modern medical infrastructure in the developing world

When author Richard Preston published his 1992 New York Times article about Ebola, “Crisis in the Hot Zone”, there had only been a handful…

Using the Internet of Everything to build Africa’s smart cities of the future

Today, only 1% of all things are connected in our world. In the next ten years, this number will increase dramatically — and with…

4 things you really need to know about getting more women in tech

It’s the eve of my favorite day of the year: Election Day. Twenty year old wonks much like myself celebrate such a day because…

Wirelurker virus discovered, ‘heralds new era’ for Apple software attacks

Reports of a new trojan-like malware being pushed around could spell real danger for Apple users, both mobile and desktop. The so-called Wirelurker has…

Beyond ‘the customer is always right’: understanding the social shopper

The consumer has always been right, but now they are so informed by their peers that they are savvier than ever when it comes…

This Dutch student is building an ambulance drone

Drones have a bad reputation, an almost irredeemable bad reputation even when proposed to be put to good use. The bad boy reputation is…

8 ways technology is improving how we teach

Oftentimes it can be difficult to make changes to the way teachers teach. After all, why change something if it’s tried and true? However,…

The global telematics space is heating up and SA is very much in the race

Following a series of high profile telematics conferences around the globe and research released by US firm LexisNexis; a clear picture is forming over…

African women in tech: Nkem Begho on being geeky and manly in the tech space

“Women in tech are thought to be geeky and manly. They are thought to have no fashion sense and probably all wear nerd glasses….

Google is developing a nanoparticle pill that will detect cancer, heart disease

Google’s quest to disrupt the health industry just got properly serious. While everyone else is fiddling around wearables and apps, Google is allowing people…

3 very important ways technology is being employed to fight Ebola

Ebola has been causing, especially in West Africa, much heartache and has turned into an epidemic. Apart from Nigeria, the only country that appeared…

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

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel