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New Cardboard Bike Could Revolutionise Transport In Rural Africa
16 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I don’t like cyclists very much, I’ll be the first to tell you. But even I have to marvel at the ingenuity of this new Israeli invention. Amateur cyclist and Israeli inventor, Izhar Gafni, has created a bicycle made of cardboard – which could be the massive game changer for rural people who need to get from A to B.
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Yahoo Appoints Top Google Exec As Chief Operating Officer
16 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yahoo has convinced a second high-ranking Google employee to come and work for them. After being one of Google’s top sales execs, Henrique De Castro served more recently as Google’s president of partners business solutions. He will now be serving as Yahoo’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).
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Today’s Interactive Doodle Is Google’s Biggest Yet!
15 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Google has become famous for its fun, interactive Doodles, each new iteration drawing in a few more newcomers. Today’s Doodle is no different and also happens to be the online giant’s biggest, most expansive effort yet.
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Radvertising: Microsoft’s First TV Ad For Windows 8 [VIDEO]
15 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This past weekend, Microsoft unveiled its first TV commercial for its new operating system, Windows 8. The fast-paced, upbeat ad offers a glimpse of Microsoft’s “reimagined” campaign.
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Swiss Photographer Sues Apple For Using Photo Without Permission
15 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, snap! Apple and the Swiss are not having a good time right now. This morning, we reported in the Spice that Apple has just had to license the iconic Swiss-designed railway clock for use in its iOS 6 operation system. Now, Swiss photographer Sabine Liewald has filed a lawsuit against Apple for what she claims is the unauthorised use of one of her photographs.
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Site Of Julius Caesar’s Stabbing Discovered
12 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Julius Caesar, the most prominent and famous of all the Roman rulers was stabbed on the 15th of March, 44BC – known as the Ides of March. We know this thanks to the many classical texts detailing the event. For the first time, archaeologists suspect they may have found physical evidence.
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Taiwan Asks Apple To Please Hide Secret Military Base Visible On Apple Maps
10 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple Maps is in hot water yet again, this time not because some poor guy tried to get to Constantia and ended up in Turkey, but rather for revealing sensitive military information. Taiwanese authorities have asked Apple to take Google’s lead, and rather post low-res pics of sensitive places.
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Felix Baumgartner Jumps From 23 Miles Above The Earth At 14h30 Today
09 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
At approximately 14h30 South African time, skydiver Felix Baumgartner will attempt the highest, fastest free fall in history – 37 kilometres above Earth.
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Russian Boy Finds Perfectly Preserved Woolly Mammoth
05 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A local Russian boy has come upon the remains of a woolly mammoth, a creature that is estimated to have walked on the earth about 30 000 years ago. After excavation by local paleontologists, it has been described as the second best preserved mammoth ever discovered.
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South African Fossil Reveals New Dinosaur Species
04 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new species of dinosaur has been unveiled – the Pegomastax africanus, a 200-million-year-old dinosaur – and it is the subject of a new peer-reviewed research paper in the journal ZooKeys. The fossils were discovered in South Africa (around and in Lesotho) 50 years ago.
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Facebook Now Has More Than One Billion Users
04 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook announced today that it now has more than one billion users around the world. Although there might be a few made up accounts in that number.
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Nokia Subtly Throws Down The Gauntlet To Apple [VIDEO]
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It was only a matter of time before Nokia jumped on the versus-Apple bandwagon now that their new flagship, the Lumia 920, is all but on the shelves. Instead of launching into a drawn-out tirade concerning specs and features they focused on small aspects that could actually make all the difference.
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Stellenbosch University Gives Companies Free Access To Its Research
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a bold move that is the is the first of its kind in the country, Stellenbosch University is making its intellectual property and research findings available to companies and firms, for free.
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High Density Of Apple Fanboys In New York Contribute To City’s Increased Crime
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
While the Apple lovers are not committing the crimes themselves, popularity of the company’s devices in New York is being blamed for the increase of crime in the city. The NYPD commissioner has said that crime in New York City has significantly risen due to the theft of Apple products.
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Google Now More Valuable Than Microsoft
02 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Microsoft now resides at position number three on the list of most valuable technology businesses in the world. Only Apple tops Google, but by quite a lot.
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Facebook Gifts Encourage Users To Expose More Private Information
01 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook is about to start testing its new gifting platform that will allow it another go at a possible revenue stream, but there’s a small problem: exposing information like home addresses, birth dates and other aspects could pose security and privacy risks.
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Kim Dotcom Releases Teaser For Megabox [VIDEO]
27 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Remember Kim Dotcom? He is the hacker-turned-multimillionaire businessman, accused of costing the entertainment industry $500 million through pirated content uploaded to his popular file-sharing site, Megaupload – which was shut down earlier this year.
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Sweet Potato: Planet Friendly Durable And Protective Laptop And Tablet Sleeves
27 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
Sweet Potato is a young Cape Town startup company that is making planet friendly, durable and protective laptop and tablet sleeves from recycled hessian Global Coffee bags.
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The Final Countdown To The Digital Edge Live Show: Cape Town, 4 October 2012
27 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
On October 4th, the Digital Edge Live Show – National Assembly 2012 – will take place at the Cape Town City Hall. You can look forward to the likes of top local and international speakers telling it how it is on all things digital marketing.
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How Smartphones Are Revolutionising Health Care [INFOGRAPHIC]
26 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“The electronic management of health care through mobile devices” or, more simply, “mHealth” is rapidly on the rise and a recent study shows just how much of a positive impact it is having. From everyday apps that assist with general health and fitness to more medically-purposed ones that can monitor blood pressure, the presence of […]
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Brazilian Judge Orders The Arrest Of The Head Of Google’s Operations In Brazil
26 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of the head of Google’s operations in Brazil for failure to remove YouTube videos that attacked a mayoral candidate.
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Badvertising: This BlackBerry 10 Advert Really Sucks [VIDEO]
26 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Embarrassing. That single word has made up a lot of the overall feedback received after RIM uploaded this video to their YouTube page yesterday. Aimed at developers, it aims to showcase all the cool new features of the Blackberry 10 – by having a couple of dads pretend to be rockstars.
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Dive Deeper – Google Street View Goes Underwater! [VIDEO]
26 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Always wanted to explore the Great Barrier Reef but couldn’t quite get the cash together? Don’t worry, good guy Google has it covered. Its latest Street View collection comes from beneath the waves of several famous diving spots and the results are nothing less than spectacular.
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Dutch Apple Site Glues New iPhone To Pavement, With Hilarious Results [VIDEO]
25 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The iPhone 5 isn’t due for release in the Netherlands until Friday, but that didn’t stop Dutch website iPhone5.nl getting their paws on one before everyone else. Bestowed with this great honour, what better way to celebrate other than by gluing it to the sidewalk and secretly videotaping everyone who thinks they’ve just made the find of the century?
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Google: “We’ve Not Yet Offered New Map App To Apple”
25 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said that Google has not yet submitted a new Google Maps application to Apple.
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Examples Of How Hilarious Apple’s New Maps App Is Being [GALLERY]
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple’s iOS 6 and new in-house maps app have only been around a couple of days, but that hasn’t stopped people making some interesting new discoveries while using the map feature.
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French Apple Staff Strike For iPhone 5 Launch
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Some Apple employees in French stores have voted to strike today, making sure they get maximum impact by timing their walkout to coincide with the French launch of the iPhone 5.
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US Scientists Find New Way Dagga Could Stop Cancer
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been a subject that’s as old as time – let us smoke our weed, because it has medicinal properties. Scientists at a US medical center in California have provided new credence to this claim, discovering a compound derived from the plant which stops the metastases of many kinds of aggressive cancer.
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Samsung Continues To Mock iPhone Fans In TV Commercial [VIDEO]
20 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Earlier this week, we reported on the Samsung/Apple feud currently reaching new lows. It started with a series of Samsung print ads dissing the new iPhone 5. Not having it, Apple fanboys then responded with their own series of adverts – countering the arguments made in the Galaxy S3 ad. All eyes were on Samsung for their response to Apple’s response to Samsung’s response to the iPhone 5. And here it is: a new TV advert mocking fanboys waiting outside Apple stores whenever there is a new release. The tagline for the ad, referring to the Galaxy S3, reads: “The next big thing is already here.”
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Survey: Nearly A Third Of Young South Africans Believe Fracking Is A Sexual Activity
18 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Consumer insights group, Pondering Panda, said on Monday that nearly two thirds of young South Africans have little idea of what hydraulic fracking is about.
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