Kortext and Vodacom Business announce agreement to support higher education students
By Staff Writer 4 March 2024Kortext, a global leader in digital learning and student engagement software for higher education, has reached a new agreement with Vodacom Business to provide digital learning material – including textbooks... FULL STORY >
Paper-based text proves better for student comprehension
By Staff Writer 20 October 2017Research done by Professor Patricia Alexander and Lauren Singer of the University of Maryland found that comprehension suffers when text is read on-screen. FULL STORY >
Facebook believes new DeepText AI has near-human accuracy
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 2 June 2016Facebook introduces its new DeepText AI platform, to better help users via its deep learning ability and near-human accuracy. FULL STORY >
Did you know you can format text in WhatsApp?
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 30 March 2016You may not have noticed, but WhatsApp added a few formatting features for text to its messaging platform. FULL STORY >
Is South Africa facing a Text Neck pain pandemic?
By Staff Writer 1 June 2015Although today’s digital age comes with many benefits, it also brings a new set of health issues. One of the biggest at the moment is ‘Text Neck’. FULL STORY >
LG Optimus 7 specs leaked
By Johan Keyter 28 September 2010A Korean newspaper provides an early look at the upcoming LG Optimus 7, a smartphone sporting voice to text recognition. FULL STORY >
July Web Time Wasters
By Hanleigh Daniels 20 July 2010TechSmart scours the web in order to bring you some of the most useful, fun and interesting sites that the web has to offer. FULL STORY >
Intel Reader launched
By Thomas McKinnon 11 November 2009The Intel Reader was launched today, a device that combines a text-scanning camera with a text-to-speech engine designed specifically for the vision impaired and people with learning disabilities. FULL STORY >
TomTom Go720
By Andrew Gould 14 April 2008The 720 has text-to-speech, pronunciation of street names, audio output to your cars speakers, the latest (up to date) maps of the entire Southern Africa and a very large 4.3\\ FULL STORY >
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