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The battle for Brazil’s tech market is heating up

Rowan Puttergill: Columnist — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:31 +0000

Brazil is going through an economic boom. In December, it overtook the UK as the world’s sixth largest economy. Much of Brazil’s success has come through changes within its agricultural sector where, over the past 40 years, it has focussed on the Soya trade. But Brazil’s success does not rest on agriculture alone. Brazil has [...]

People can resist the desire to have sex, but not to tweet [Study]

Mvelase Peppetta — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:35:14 +0000

We can’t do without sleep, and sex is imperative for the survival of the human race, however, a soon-to-be published psychological study has found that despite these desires being built in to our DNA, we’re more likely to resist them, than the desire to shoot off a tweet. Reported by the Guardian, the study looked [...]

WordPress now lets you upload video direct from your iDevice

Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:32:33 +0000

Are you a WordPress user? Happen to have an iPhone or an iPad? Well now you can instantly upload video from your iDevice and embed it on your WordPress blog. The ability to do so comes in the shape of a tweak to the VideoPress upgrade. The company claims that VideoPress, which allows you to [...]

4 Reasons your business needs Online Reputation Management

Tim Shier — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:30:30 +0000

Online Reputation Management (ORM) is the practice of monitoring online conversations, articles and websites, in order to gain a better understanding and insight of how one’s brand is perceived online. Despite a global surge in ORM adoption in the past two years, few emerging market businesses have embraced its full potential for strategic business decision-making [...]

Does banning Olympic volunteers from social media make sense?

Tony Seifart — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:30:27 +0000

The 2012 Summer Olympics kicks off on 27 July in London and promises to be 17 days of grit, grime and glory for the athletes. Besides the athletes, the Games will also be attended by heads of state and other dignitaries. And to make all this run smoothly and safely, more than 70 000 volunteers [...]

Headphones of the future won’t care if you mix up left and right

Martin Carstens: Staff reporter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:27:45 +0000

The story about these headphones reminds me a lot of the urban legend about the space pen, but you know how you sometimes put the “L” bud in your right ear and the “R” in your left? Researchers at the Igarashi Design Interfaces Project in Tokyo, Japan have solved that. Instead of getting some headphones with distinct ear [...]

5 Great puzzlers for iOS

Ronan Steyn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:25:22 +0000

Touch technology has given new life to the puzzler. Phones and tablets afford these games a crisp resolution that puts Mario to shame, great sound through your headphones, and a compactness that means you can solve away anywhere you are. It is this new intimacy of gaming that inspires our list of the top five [...]

Google brings in a ‘Bouncer’ to beef up Android security

Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:10:35 +0000

The Android marketplace has taken a bit of a beating in recent weeks, after it was found that a large number of the available apps were just fronts for malicious software (malware). In a bid to combat this, Google is rolling out new software called “Bouncer”. Intimidating. In an official post on its mobile blog, [...]

Windows 8 phone, codenamed: ‘Apollo’ detailed

Steven Norris: Staff reporter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:10:07 +0000

We loved the last range of Windows phones from the ever-hopeful Nokia, namely the Lumia range. Windows 8 phones though, are hotter than the surface of the sun and twice as sexy as a champagne bubble bath filled with supermodels. This site has managed to eke out a full list of features which the new [...]

Facebook is a grown up company now [Interactive Timeline]

Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed. — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:00:59 +0000

Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is that blockbuster movie we all waited years to go see, it was the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Batman of the tech world. Mark Zuckerberg, the James Cameron who took eight years to create his masterpiece just waiting for the world to be ready for it. Now [...]