The hashtag #earthquake trended in South Africa after residents in Cape Town felt tremors from an earthquake south of the continent. Many experienced a…
Mark Zuckerberg lays out plan to connect the next 5-billion
Looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s been stealing peeks at the Google play book. The founder and CEO of the billion-strong social network today announced “rough”…
Steve Hofmeyr’s Wikipedia page hacked
Controversial South African Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr had his personal Wikipedia page hacked on Monday. The page now describes him as a prominent member…
Russian parliament approves controversial web censorship bill
The Russian parliament has approved a bill which will allow the government to shut down websites hosting content they deemed “harmful.” If signed into…
Open source software: It’s more than just free stuff
Free software. In many ways it is an unfortunate term to describe what most people today know as open source software. Although the term…
