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Netflix experimenting with ‘partial download’ playback feature

Netflix’s offline downloads has always been the app’s best feature, but it’s a pain to download an entire episode or movie especially if you’re…

Trump rages at Twitter after social network fact-checks tweet

Twitter on Tuesday fact-checked tweets made by US President Donald Trump regarding mail-in ballots. In the tweets, Trump dismisses the idea that in-mail ballots…

MTN debuts EveryDayGigs rolling data bundles in SA

MTN is dropping its data prices in South Africa a tad further, albeit with a slight caveat, with its new EveryDayGigs packages. Announced on…

SA startup Carry1st raises $2.5m seed round

Cape Town based startup Carry1st, which is looking to use games to build what could be Africa’s first super app, has raised seed round…

SA tech company Wyzetalk in ‘multi-million’ euro investment from Dutch investors

SA founded tech company Wyzetalk it has landed a “multi-million” euro investment from Dutch investment company CNBB Venture Partners. Wyzetalk — which helps connect large…

Covid-19 and African tech startups roundup [28/05/2020]

Zimbabwean edtech SMBLO has announced that it has signed up its 1000th registered student, since the launch of its e-learning platform on 1 May….

Huawei P40 lite vs iPhone SE 2020: which should you buy? [Sponsored]

Facing off in South Africa’s highly-competitive mid-range category, the iPhone SE 2020 and the Huawei P40 lite are two smartphones gunning for a place…

Vivo to bring new Y series phones to SA in July, 5G device before year-end

Chinese phone maker Vivo landed in South Africa at the bottom end of 2019 with two fairly average and underwhelming mid-range devices. It’s now…

This is Samsung’s ‘Tactical Edition’ of the Galaxy S20

Okay. Folding phones are cool, but what ever happened to rugged devices? There are a few manufacturers keeping the dream alive for us butterfingered…

The new BMW 5 Series is now a high-performance hybrid

BMW has revealed the latest version of its seventh-generation 5 Series luxury sedan. For many the 5 Series remains BMW’s best car, blending driving…

Updated Kia Picanto brings load of tech to South Africa

Kia’s Picanto is one of South Africa’s most popular compact hatchbacks. The Korean brand has managed to make city cars desirable, locally, with a…

The C63 AMG and the case for AMG’s final V8-powered C-Class

Since the original in 2006, the AMG C63 has been perhaps Mercedes-Benz’s most exciting sedan car. The idea supporting its existence has always been…

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WAN Links: User generated content, future of the newspaper & Zapiro on Zuma

New Strategic Reports From Shaping the Future of the Newspaper. Five new strategy reports on some of the most important recent developments in the…

The media should take note of bloggers

It’s been easy for some to dismiss the blogosphere as a fringe publishing phenomenon. Publishers, who have had a monopoly on mainstream publishing since…

Technology shifting power away from the editors, the publishers, the establishment, the media elite?

Saw Mike Stoporth’s article on Bizcom in which he had this quote from Rupert Murdoch, talking about the internet: “To find something comparable, you…

The blog phenomenon

When Gutenberg invented the printing press, he freed the publishers. But when the World Wide Web was pioneered by Tim Berners-Lee, it was said that the readers were now freed. The age of the internet has given unprecedented power to the reader by creating one of the most democratic and accessible forms of publishing yet – the blog.

Netocracy

If Karl Marx were alive today this is the book he would have written. This is the bold, if not slightly ambitious, claim of…

Mugabe’s Online Nightmare

Net Savvy Mugabe’s Online Nightmare The Daily News website and Zimonline continue to publish news critical of the Mugabe regime, and there’s not much…

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