Motorola Solutions’ Safer Cities event in Cape Town highlighted the importance of more efficient use of technology to ensure that the cities in which people live are both more smartly managed and safer. FULL STORY >

After spending some time in the East, Deep Fried Man believes free wi-fi is not a privilege, it's a basic human right. FULL STORY >

Kaspersky Lab believes it has discovered one of the most sophisticated, intelligent and highly coordinated global cyber threats of the last decade, referred to as The Mask or Careto, its a Spanish-language based cyber spying operating... FULL STORY >

Wondering what is showing at the movies during February? Wonder no more! Movie fundi Spling has the low-down on the top movies (and DVDs) for the month. FULL STORY >

What are the sport and fitness goodies worthy of your attention this month? TechSmart investigates. FULL STORY >

Will Nokia be sticking it to Microsoft and unveil an Android powered device soon? It is rumoured that Nokia will be previewing a new Android OS powered smartphone at the World Mobile Congress, to be held in Barcelona, later this month. FULL STORY >

The American tech community has asked the public to join The Day We Fight Back. This day, to be held tomorrow, 11 February, is a direct result of the online community’s outrage over unauthorised government surveillance. FULL STORY >

In this week’s GNR: More PS4s now locally available, the Castlevania media onslaught continues and Assassin’s Creed 4 DLC Freedom Cry to be a stand alone playable game in its own right. FULL STORY >

In the wake of this year’s Super Bowl which recently took place, there was a gem of an ad released by Microsoft reminding about the potentially profound value of technology to people’s lives. FULL STORY >

With many institutes of higher learning gearing to go, students looking for hot notebooks or hybrids have a number of hot options to choose from. FULL STORY >

In this week’s Gaming News Round-up: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 shows its surrounds, Bethesda readies for The Elder Scrolls Online and Dark Souls 2 brings nine minutes of torment. FULL STORY >

The latest revelation from Edward Snowden asserts that US and British intelligence agencies are taking advantage of apps to mine users’ personal information. FULL STORY >

In this week’s Gaming News Round-up: New trailer for Left Behind released, Star Wars 1313 is dumped and yet another trailer for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 emerges. FULL STORY >

Researchers at Princeton University believe that Facebook is heading the same way as Myspace, going so far to declare that in 2017 the social network will only have 20% of its peak user base left. FULL STORY >

Scott Kelby has opened up as to why he made the switch from Nikon to Canon FULL STORY >