India announced new rules on Thursday to regulate big social media firms, such as Facebook and Twitter, the latest effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to tighten control over Big Tech firms.
The rules come after Twitter …
China’s Xiaomi Corp is enlisting more contract manufacturers to make its phones in India, adding heft in a country where it is already one of the biggest smartphone brands.
China’s BYD and DBG will be the company’s new suppliers in Indi…
Australia’s parliament passed a law on Thursday to make Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc pay media companies for content on their platforms in reforms that countries such as Britain and Canada are looking to replicate.
After robus…
A budget electric vehicle (EV) selling in China for $4,500 (£3,200) is now outselling Tesla's more upmarket cars.
The compact car is proving a big hit for state-owned SAIC Motor, China's top automaker.
The Hong Guang Mini EV is being…
A new Land Rover Defender XS Edition, featuring tough exterior design elements and comprehensive standard specification, will be introduced in sub-Sahara Africa in 2021.
The new XS Edition replaces the hugely successful First Edition. P…
In response to the growing demand for high-quality camera equipment to meet the evolving requirements of today’s content creators, Canon Europe (Canon-europe.com) today announces the EOS M50 Mark II, the successor to the award-winning [1] …
Today, GIZ, (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), Orange (www.Orange.com), the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, the Ethiopian Investment Commission and the Industrial Parks Development Corporation are launching t…
Here at Networks Unlimited Africa, we are applying the ‘Broken window’ principle when looking at our internal cybersecurity posture and how it affects business processes.
The term ‘Broken window’ comes from George Kelling, a criminologi…
Hyundai Motor Co will replace battery systems in some 82,000 electric vehicles globally due to fire risks - a costly $900 million recall that lays bare the thorny issue of how car and battery makers split the bill when problems arise.
T…
Finnish telecom network equipment maker Nokia on Wednesday said it has won an order from Globe Telecom to build a 5G network to the Philippines’ second and third largest islands Mindanao and Visayas.
Nokia will also upgrade the existing…
Tech giants Google and Facebook have too great a share of the UK online advertising market, the boss of the UK's competition watchdog has said.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would like regulatory changes to deal with that …
Sony says its next-generation PlayStation VR system will feature an improved field of view and silence critics of the current device's wire-heavy set-up.
The headset will also come with a new controller inspired by the PS5's DualSense g…
Less than a year old, Clubhouse already ticks the boxes for being the next big thing:
huge hype
super-famous users
controversy
bans
a massive valuation (despite not making any money, obviously).
Here's what y…
A smart city project started by Google's sister firm Sidewalk Labs to track mobility patterns in the US city of Portland, Oregon has been shelved.
Last year, Sidewalk also ditched an ambitious project to build a digital city in Toronto,…
Streaming platform Spotify is to launch in 85 new markets, bringing the service to more than a billion extra people.
The announcement came via a livestreaming event featuring Justin Bieber, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Spotify has…
WhatsApp users who do not accept its updated terms and conditions by the 15 May deadline will be unable to receive or send messages until they do so.
Their account will be listed as "inactive". And inactive accounts can be deleted after…
Huawei has unveiled a revamped foldable smartphone, which it says has a much smaller internal gap when closed than that of its main rival Samsung.
The Mate X2 marks a major redesign for the Chinese firm. When shut, the large display is …
Audio-only social network iPhone app Clubhouse has confirmed that it experienced a data spill on Sunday.
The app allows users to join and participate in pop-up public or private audio chatrooms, promising that conversations are not reco…
China is hosting one of the few in-person technology trade shows since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 200 companies and about 20,000 people are expected to attend Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
But the three-day ev…
Optyma™ Control Panel Proves Effective at Facebook HQ office in Dubai. Cooling IDS team MENA Region has bagged a remarkable project for the Control Panels by providing an effective Turnkey solution for Facebook Dubai. It was a strategical …
5G will be the most transformative communications technology in a generation and enable a universe of new services, including advanced energy management capabilities that will be critical to solving growing energy and sustainability challe…
Covid-19 has accelerated education’s digital transformation, highlighting Africa’s digital divide – and exposing the vital need for all-inclusive digital literacy, say expert panelists at the inaugural session of Canon’s (Canon-CNA.com) gr…
Hype will first launch in Africa, where Opera (Opera.com) has nearly 150M MAU, with Kenya as the pilot market; With Hype, Opera reimagines the chat experience, with content sharing as a key feature; Opera Mini, with more than 100M users wo…
“Ten years in, TransferWise is now Wise,” screams the press release that landed in my in-box late last week. The fintech giant, most recently valued by private investors at $5 billion, is re-branding ahead of an expected IPO.
Of course,…
Video game platform Roblox Corp revived plans to go public and said it expects its shares to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 10, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
The company had postponed plans to go pub…
Discovery Inc said on Monday it expects to have 12 million global paid streaming subscribers by the end of this month, as coronavirus-led restrictions kept people home and fueled subscriber growth.
Launched in January, discovery+ houses…
The European Commission on Monday announced three flagship projects - in drone technologies, space communication and space traffic management - aimed at giving the 27-country bloc a competitive edge in these new fields.
Called the Actio…
Billionaire CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday the price of bitcoin and ethereum seemed high, at a time when the cryptocurrencies have hit record highs, with bitcoin crossing the $1 trillion market-capitalization threshold.
The chief execut…
Apple is said to be lobbying the Indian government in a move that could see the company manufacture iPads in the country for the first time. Reuters reports that the government is planning to launch an incentive scheme designed to boost In…
Photomath, the popular mobile app that helps you solve equations, has raised a $23 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The app is a massive consumer success, and chances are you might already know about it if you have a t…
2020 was a weird year by any measure. Certainly it was a wild ride for those in the consumer electronics category. Take smartphones — first there were manufacturing delays out of China, followed by an across the board decrease in demand. T…
All of those obnoxious marketing emails that crowd your inbox aren’t just pushing a product. They’re also tracking whether you’ve opened the email, when you opened it, and where you were at the time by using software like MailChimp to embe…
Podcast advertising company Acast is announcing that it has acquired RadioPublic, the startup that spun out of public radio marketplace PRX in 2016.
At first, RadioPublic’s main product was a mobile app for podcast listening, and it sti…
Apple is reportedly developing a new iPhone charging accessory in the form of a battery pack that magnetically attaches to the rear of the device using MagSafe, Bloomberg reports. Although some prototypes have a rubber exterior, the batter…
Bitcoin hit yet another record high on Friday, and moved within sight of a market capitalisation of $1 trillion, blithely shrugging off analyst warnings that it is an “economic side show” and a poor hedge against a fall in stock prices.
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Google-powered Chromebook laptops have overtaken Apple's Macs in popularity for the first time, analysts suggest.
Consultancy IDC tracked the use of operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows or Apple's MacOS.
It found Chrome OS, u…
Audio chat app Clubhouse has doubled its download numbers in just over two weeks, according to download estimates by one analytics firm.
App Annie reports that the app saw global downloads grow from 3.5 million to 8.1 million between 1 …
WhatsApp is pushing ahead with controversial changes to its terms of service, but altering the way it notifies users following a backlash.
After its first announcement in January, millions of users downloaded apps from WhatsApp's compet…
Power management company Eaton today announced its Vehicle Group is developing gearing solutions for electrified vehicles (EVs). Leveraging its expertise in producing transmissions and contract manufactured gear-sets for passenger and comm…
The software includes course materials in English and French, quizzes and coding assignments, an automated grading system and an artificial intelligence teaching assistant called Kwame, after Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah. The …
Jumeni Field Service Software assists service-based businesses by providing a three-part cloud-based application to help increase the productivity of their field teams, engage customers and collect payments seamlessly.
The field service…
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government will not be intimidated by Facebook blocking news feeds to users.
He described the move to "unfriend Australia" as arrogant and disappointing.
Facebook is responding to…
Google has suspended the Trump 2020 campaign app from the Google Play Store for policy violations, the company confirmed, following a report from Android Police which noted the app was unable to load any content and appeared to have been t…
The global semiconductor chip shortage is not likely to significantly affect the financial profiles of Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp or Honda Motor Co, ratings agency Fitch said in a statement on Wednesday.
The automakers have enough financ…
Apple Inc is angling to participate in a new scheme to boost India’s exports of computer products, part of what government and industry sources say are plans to bring iPad tablet manufacturing to the South Asian country.
India launched …
Apple is changing its syringe emoji to remove the dripping blood, as it becomes widely used to talk about the Covid-19 vaccine.
Apple's new version has nothing inside the needle.
"This makes the emoji more versatile when used to desc…
Decades of Disruption
Howard Plaatjes, CEO of technology investment group, AYO, takes a look at some of the key technologies that are set to change our future, today and provides an insight into where South Africa's largest listed ICT i…
A special launch version to showcase Nissan’s innovative and convenient technology
An extended palette of two-tone colour options and even more convenience features
The order books open today in Europe on the all-new Nissan Qas…
Fortnite creator Epic Games has taken its fight against Apple to European Union antitrust regulators, ramping up it dispute with the iPhone maker over its App Store payment system and control over app downloads.
The two companies have b…
Reddit has published its transparency report for 2020, showing various numbers relating to removed content, government requests and other administrative actions. The largest problem by far — in terms of volume, anyway — is spam, which made…
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