Instagram has reached 27m users and continues its mantra that the photo sharing app will come to Android “really soon”. Instagram is a photo-sharing social network that is available only on the Apple iPhone. It allows people to take pictures, assign filters, and then post them to a variety of social networks, including
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Gert Schoonbee has been named as the new MD of IT outsourcing specialist T-Systems in SA, replacing Mardia van der Walt-Korsten, who is moving on to a role as regional head of the company’s newly created Africa region. Schoonbee, who will take on the new role on 1 April, is the company’s vice-president of sales
Altech Autopage Cellular has acquired sister company Altech Technology Concepts for an undisclosed sum as part of a plan to offer converged communication products and services to retail consumers and small and medium enterprises. The merged business will be renamed
With his leather jacket and shaggy hair, David Eagleman looks more like a musician than a neuroscientist. The New York Times best-selling author and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of Medicine gave a fascinating overview of his studies into synesthesia and the place of the
There’s an enormous amount of speculation swirling around Google+, the search giant’s six-month-old social network. In a frank “fireside chat” at this year’s South By South West (SXSW) festival tech guru Guy Kawasaki prodded Vic Gundotra, head of Google+, into revealing some surprising insights. Kawasaki opened
Multinational consulting and managed services company, the Birchman Group, is entering SA’s telecommunications market with plans, eventually, to invest billions of rand in a national wholesale fibre-optic network to connect small, medium and large enterprises to high-speed broadband. The company, which has
Tomas Alfredson’s cinematic adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy immerses itself in the murkiness and gloom of John le Carré’s Cold War novels. Dense, deliberate and cerebral, it is as fine a movie made from a Le Carré novel as we have seen since The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in 1964
Twenty years ago, on 11 March 1992, Nathaniel Borenstein sent the world’s first e-mail attachment. Although it created little excitement beyond the small group of people involved with the project, today Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions technology (Mime, for short) is used an estimated trillion times a day
Core Group, which distributes Apple products in SA, has cut the price of the iPad 2 by as much as R1 400, fuelling rumours that the third-generation iPad, launched this week by Apple CEO Tim Cook, could go on sale in the country in the next few months. Prices of all iPad 2’s have been cut, with reductions of between
With consumers tiring of incremental resolution and contrast ratio improvements, Samsung is now asking itself what else it can make a screen do that might just make you buy it. With its CA550, available in 23- or 27-inch models, the Korean electronics giant has decided to place its bets on connectivity, lots of it