Let’s face it, virtual personal assistants like Siri and Google Now just aren’t very good. Or, to be more accurate, they’re quite good at a narrow set of tasks (like telling you the weather forecast) and quite
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I have been learning a lot about death lately. Not in some tragic fashion, but as a hobby. Well, not really a hobby — that is something you take an active interest in. More like a book, only without any
JSE-listed companies are not making sufficient use of Twitter as a platform to help people, including those in the financial community, get a better understanding of their businesses. That’s the finding of new research by FTI Consulting, which evaluates
South Africa’s biggest mobile network Vodacom wants a regulatory approach to data-driven over-the-top applications such as Facebook-owned WhatsApp. WhatsApp has grown to over 10m
Local technology expert Arthur Goldstuck says he’s not surprised at Mxit’s commercial closure. On Friday, Mxit announced that it is shutting down its commercial operations and donating all of its intellectual property and technology assets to independent public
Social media applications dominate the South African smartphone scene, local research has found. According to data in the new South African Social Media Landscape study by World Wide Worx and Fuseware, chat application WhatsApp is the most dominant application on smartphones
Mobile operator MTN has fired a shot at popular chat application WhatsApp. The operator fumed at the popularity of chat over-the-top operators. “You have these players which are getting
From satellites, to autonomous solar-powered drones, or balloons, there have been plenty of ideas recently on how to connect up the world. Facebook, Google, large international organisations, national governments, even Bono, have laid out ideas of a near future in which we are all hooked into the network
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At the end of this year, Facebook will launch a satellite into orbit to provide free access to the Internet to the African continent. Yes, really. But what is a social networking service doing mucking around with satellites? To be completely accurate, Facebook has partnered with