Googles new search system
By Thomas McKinnon 12 August 2009Google has opened a developerÔÇÖs preview to an upgraded version of its search. FULL STORY >
FreeAgent Go 250 GB Portable Drive
By Mike Joubert 12 August 2009Portable storage without the need for an external power supply FULL STORY >
Facebook buys FriendFeed
By Thomas McKinnon 11 August 2009Facebook announced yesterday, 10 August 2009, that it had acquired social aggregation service FriendFeed. FULL STORY >
Sci News August
By Thomas McKinnon 5 August 2009We 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 >
Best of Tech News July 2009
By Mike Joubert 31 July 2009All the imporant tech activity in July 09 FULL STORY >
Seacom not only bandwidth but hope
By Mike Joubert 24 July 2009It is difficult to convey the hope that yesterdayÔÇÖs switching on of the 17 000 km Seacom cable brings. FULL STORY >
LED lighting gaining momentum
By Mike Joubert 15 July 2009Seattle in the US is pumping $6 million into replacing all 40,000 of their streetlights with LEDs FULL STORY >
Bing rollout Twitter results
By Thomas McKinnon 2 July 2009Bing to display results based on a search of a name in association with ÔÇ£twitterÔÇØ that include a link to the relevant Twitter page and the latest tweet from that page. FULL STORY >
SEACOM Delayed
By Thomas McKinnon 25 June 2009According to SEACOM, increased pirate activity off the east coast of Africa has caused it to shift back the planned launch date of the cable. FULL STORY >
Bing off to a bang
By Thomas McKinnon 10 June 2009MicrosoftÔÇÖs new search engine, Bing, has surprised many by grabbing 11.1% of all US searches in its first week online. FULL STORY >
Home desktop searching
By Lance Terner 4 June 2009Today a very big proportion of the information we deal with is computerised, with most of it sitting somewhere on your computerÔÇÖs hard drive. The very real problem is that itÔÇÖs becoming extremely difficult to keep track of the documents, files, pictures and music we... FULL STORY >
Wolfram searches for feedback
By Thomas McKinnon 3 June 2009Wolfram Research, the company behind Wolfram Alpha, is looking for some feedback on their new ÔÇ£Computational Knowledge Engine.ÔÇØ FULL STORY >
Bada Bing
By Mike Joubert 2 June 2009Bing is MicrosoftÔÇÖs latest attempt to strangle a bit of the search market away from Google and to a lesser extent Yahoo. FULL STORY >
Seacom Cable arrived
By Mike Joubert 1 June 2009After what seems like ages the Seacom undersea fibre optics cable finally arrived at Mtunzini close to Durban. FULL STORY >
Wolfram Alpha a very smart calculator
By Mike Joubert 18 May 2009Wolfram|Alpha is in their own words a ÔÇ£computational knowledge engineÔÇØ. This makes WA excellent for systematic information such as solving calculations, proving the GDP of South Africa, or giving the amount of calories in 340 ml of beer. But if you are... FULL STORY >
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