South African electronics developer iKubu has developed a radar for cyclists aimed at keeping them safe on the road by detecting vehicles that approach them from the rear. The project, which is funded by a crowdsourcing campaign on Dragon Innovation, will be available by December

Apple’s September 2014 keynote was highly anticipated and #applelive supplanted #indyref, #Ukraine and #ISIS from the Twitter trending leaderboard. A huge part of the hype surrounding it was Tim Cook’s announcement that Apple would be launching an entirely new gizmo

Any South African developer who has dabbled with WordPress is probably familiar with WooThemes or its spin-off product for e-commerce websites, WooCommerce, the companies Adii Pienaar co-founded with Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester. For Pienaar, life in a tech start-up started

MultiChoice subsidiary M-Net is launching two new channels on the pay-TV operator’s DStv platform. The new channels, M-Net Edge and Vuzu Amp, will be available to DStv Premium subscribers only. The channels will go on air for the first time in October and being billed by MultiChoice

People interested in tracking their health, physical activity levels and body functions can now choose from a plethora of sensor-embedded digital gadgets to monitor and measure their bodies. But the big question for many users is how their personal health and medical data are used. The Apple Watch

How the Internet is governed is no longer a matter seen fit to be left to mere technical committees. With the extent of online surveillance, so dramatically revealed by the Snowden files, increased content filtering and blocking, and the issue of net neutrality, which would allow

Times Media Group on Wednesday took the wraps off a “cord cutting” video-on-demand (VOD) service called Vidi. Vidi offers both subscription streaming and movie rental services via the Internet. The JSE-listed media group is attempting

It’s a new era in Cupertino. Apple’s smartwatch, announced yesterday by CEO Tim Cook, represents a marked shift in strategy for a company over which founder and former CEO Steve Jobs still casts a big shadow. Apple’s two new smartphones