The average Google+ user only spends an average of three minutes a month on the social network, while MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter are all seeing more time spent per user each month, according to research firm comScore. In a scathing Wall Street Journal report titled “The Mounting Minuses at Google+”, the case

If SA consumers are ever to enjoy high-speed Internet access delivered over fibre-optic cables into their homes, government will need to assist the telecommunications industry to build the infrastructure and Internet service providers will have to do a better job of educating customers about the potential of

An information and communications technology hub is to be developed at Nasrec in Gauteng, the provincial government said on Monday. Several major international and local investors had committed themselves to the development, which would become an ICT

Nokia has repositioned itself impressively as a high-end Windows Phone maker, but the company hasn’t forgotten about the lower end of the market either. On Monday, the Finnish company announced its cheapest Windows device yet, the Lumia 610, as well as three new

You read that right. Nokia has announced the 808 PureView at the Mobile World Congress, and it sports an astoundingly large 41-megapixel camera. Nokia is well aware that such large resolution pictures will be difficult to share, so the phone will over-sample pictures

Internal auditors have blown the whistle on a R72,6m IT contract negotiated by the department of human settlements, claiming that the deal ignored mandatory tender procedures. They also raised a red flag over a perceived conflict of interests — the department’s top IT official was previously employed by the favoured contractor

Most publishers are struggling to monetise their online operations in a world where advertising revenues are under pressure and audiences remain reluctant to pay for content. Their biggest hope of making money lies in unlocking the value of the reams of data they collect about their audience

Give thanks, for once, to the law of unintended consequences. Too often, it seems, the secondary effects of policy decisions turn out to be at least perverse, if not downright detrimental. But in the case of last week’s congressional vote to extend America’s emergency payroll tax-cuts, the knock-on effects look

Sony unveiled two new smartphones on Sunday night at Mobile World Congress, the Xperia P and Xperia U, which will sit alongside the company’s previously announced Xperia S phone. Altogether, the phones make up Sony’s new “Xperia NXT” brand. More than just being the next

Samsung kicked off its Mobile World Congress presence by revealing two new devices on Sunday morning: a larger, 10,1-inch version of the Galaxy Tab 2 Android tablet, and the intriguing (and baffling) Galaxy Beam, an Android smartphone with a built-in projector. Given Samsung’s propensity for delivering tablets