Riaan Manser rose to fame when he trekked around Africa on a bike, and his latest adventure in Madagascar proved just as challenging. He talks to us about finding your way in a storm, grannies in Simons Town and manual tooth extraction. FULL STORY >

A guide to setting up your own VPN. Web resources and services that will ensure you keep your data private on public networks. FULL STORY >

Spring is here and its time to hit the road to shed those winter kilos. From Nike's LunarGlide+ running shoes to Nokia's Sport Tracker, we take a look at all the need-to-have fitness gadgets to get you in shape. FULL STORY >

Sony announced yesterday that its VAIO-branded computers sold in the US will have Google Chrome preinstalled. FULL STORY >

The Edimax Broadband Router and Print Server is a multi-function wireless broadband router. When connecting a 3G USB modem card to the device, all network (wired / wireless) users can share that 3G connection. FULL STORY >

A Swiss programmer has released source code for a trojan that records Skype calls. FULL STORY >

Geolocation functionality will be made available on the Twitter platform in the near future which means that tweets can then be geo-tagged. FULL STORY >

Logitech claim to have made a mouse, two actually, that can be used on almost any surface, including glass. FULL STORY >

Scientists at IBM Research, in collaboration with Paul W. K. Rothmund, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology, have made a breakthrough in semiconductor advancement using artificial DNA structures. FULL STORY >

Google has opened a developerÔÇÖs preview to an upgraded version of its search. FULL STORY >

Portable storage without the need for an external power supply FULL STORY >

Facebook announced yesterday, 10 August 2009, that it had acquired social aggregation service FriendFeed. FULL STORY >

Twitter went down for a number of hours yesterday as a result of what it calls, ÔÇ£a single, massively coordinated attack.ÔÇØ FULL STORY >

We recap some of the latest science discoveries over the last month including how we master activities, understanding the life of stars and how cats control humans. FULL STORY >

MozillaÔÇÖs Firefox web browser reached the 1 billion downloads mark on July 31st, 2009. FULL STORY >