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Fatherhood app wins at Early Childhood Development Hackathon

The SA Innovation Summit‘s Hackathon for Early Childhood Development (ECD) awarded top honours to an app aimed at encouraging fathers to be more involved in…

Never miss these 5 steps while transferring hosting providers

Moving a website from one host to another host can be little tricky. Most newbie webmasters make too many mistakes during the entire migration…

Satellite networks could prove key to the financial services industry

Satellite networks are reliable, very reliable. The very nature of the technology integrated with sound engineering practises leads to the most trusted and reliable…

3D printers, cardboard and a giant robot: Omar-Pierre Soubra on the magic of Maker Faire

Cape Town recently hosted its very first Maker Faire Cape Town. Calling those involved makers, the event saw some 4 000 attendants and over…

Building a digital business? Don’t sacrifice your agility

The benefits of taking your business digital are mostly about agility — and newcomers, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), need to safeguard that…

Tech innovations diagnose healthcare, offer cures in the form of mobile and web based solutions

In remote areas, a visit to the clinic, doctor, and hospital, can entail a serious and expensive trek. That’s just one reason the health…

Memeburn gets the full story behind one man’s crazy Uber ride

Taking an Uber ride is supposed to be an easy and convenient experience. In fact, most people use the service for that reason, along…

Chinese shoppers spend $500m on Alibaba’s Tmall in 20 minutes

It has turned November 11 in China, commencing the nation’s craziest day of online shopping discounts and spending. It’s called 11/11. At Alibaba HQ,…

Twitter’s worth $31bn, net no longer neutral and Google teaches us to cook: #StuffToKnow this week

A certain internet birdie is now worth US$31-billion, but you probably already knew that right? If we are not careful meanwhile, some sites could…

Global businesses really need machine translation: here’s why

For those of us looking to do business internationally, this is an exciting time. The internet offers opportunities to connect on a worldwide scale….

Digital forensics is becoming vital to HR: here’s why

What if an employee visits the Human Resources Department with allegations that a colleague sent them offensive emails? What if the suspected employee deleted…

Hey tech optimists, we need a little activism for the unmonitored self

Historians will look back at the past 20 years as a unique period, a time when there was great opportunity to see deep into…

Ashton’s an engineer and your friends are giraffes: #StuffToKnow this week

You will soon break your phone into pieces on purpose. Kelso just became an engineer at Lenovo. The KitKat will no longer just give…

Press start: global games market to score $93-billion in 2013

All the gold coins Mario has collected over the years couldn’t compare to the success of the gaming industry. When 2013 is done and…

BYOD is the devil and your company’s security will suffer… sorta [RSAC]

It is like this: as buzzwordy and amazing as the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) trend is, it’s dangerous for your company’s infrastructure. Currently…

When devices outnumber people: considering the consequences

Four years from now, in 2017, the global human population is expected to reach 7.4-billion. By this same time, we expect the global installed…

The greatest show on earth: protecting the Olympics [RSA Conf]

Here is the thing: as fun and great as the Olympic Games was, it was a technological nightmare for the security teams involved. “The…

Big data is the superhero for your digital security woes [RSA conf]

There has never been a more dangerous time to be online: there are threats from every corner and attackers are getting more sophisticated. With…

A new fix for Beijing’s pollution? A giant electromagnetic vacuum cleaner

Pollution fears are on the up-and-up in Beijing once again as winter, the smoggiest season of them all, fast approaches. After the World Health…

Apple freebies, #Music killed and Capt America back: #StuffToKnow this week

So Apple is giving away its desktop operating system for free, but you’ll still have to fork out for a thinner, lighter iPad. The…

Young graduate looks to crowdfund innovative newwheel design

We get told about crowdfunded ideas all the time here at Memeburn. Some of them are cool, some seem pretty pointless, but every now…

The future of online privacy? Most of us aren’t all that bothered

Meabh Quoirin, managing director of Future Foundation closed the annual Future Foundation conference with an in-depth look at where privacy and anonymity on the…

VoIP is the future for the world’s telcos, but it won’t be an easy one

I recently wrote about operators saving a packet on toll charges by using IP technology at the core, while failing to pass the benefit…

Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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