• Ford Mustang, a cultural icon inspiring optimism and independence around the world, celebrates the production of its 10 millionth car at Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan
• Ford Mustang is the best-selling sports car of the last 50…
The new surface-mounted installation provides a significantly slim form of the SmartControl control unit as well as convenient temperature regulation thanks to the GROHTHERM thermost
Immerse yourself in a new dimension of showering – th…
Back at CES in January, Google put on a big show with the launch of a new product category designed to take on Amazon’s Echo Show and Spot. Three companies — LG, Lenovo and JBL — were waiting in the wings with their own take on the screen-…
Rovio Entertainment (ROVIO.HE), the maker of the “Angry Birds” mobile game series and movie, on Friday reported an increase in second-quarter sales at its games business, providing a positive sign for investors after a profit warning in Fe…
Cryptocurrency scams are using images of celebrities and upmarket London addresses to hoodwink consumers into parting with cash, Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has said.
The warning, first made in June, was reposted on the FCA’s …
Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] plans to open a 250 million reais ($64 million) center in Brazil to develop technology to improve safety for its riders and drivers, including for drivers to accept cash, a key payment m…
Hundreds of Google employees have written to the company to protest against plans to launch a "censored search engine" in China.
They said the project raised "urgent moral and ethical questions" and urged the firm to be more transparent…
Body scanners will be used on the Los Angeles subway to screen passengers for explosives and weapons, the local transport authority has announced.
It is the first mass transport system in the US to adopt the technology.
Portable scan…
Hong Kong’s shopping districts are well known for their fierce competition. Now, a new battleground is forming as digital payments firms fight for retailers and shoppers.
Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba are bringing their p…
Serbia, a country that claims inventor Nikola Tesla as one of its most famous sons, is looking to technology to help lift itself out of decades of economic stagnation following the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
While a small player in globa…
Forget peer pressure, future generations are more likely to be influenced by robots, a study suggests.
The research, conducted at the University of Plymouth, found that while adults were not swayed by robots, children were.
The fact …
President Trump has signed an order relaxing rules around the use of cyber-weapons, the Wall Street Journal reports.
It is a reversal of guidelines, drawn up under President Obama, which required a large number of federal agencies to be…
Smartphone brand Motorola has been criticised for revealing a "shameless" copy of the iPhone X as its new model.
Many phone-makers have copied the look of the iPhone X, which has a smaller bezel around the screen and a "notch" at the to…
Facebook partnered with the International Federation of Red Cross to provide a creative brief on helping to tackle the cholera crisis on the continent
For the third year running, Facebook (Facebook.com) is sponsoring the annual Facebook…
A few months ago, Google announced Google One, its new subscription program for getting more Google Drive storage and other perks. Over the course of the last few weeks, Google slowly rolled existing Drive subscribers over to a Google One…
Twitter is blocking the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from posting to its platform for a week.
The InfoWars broadcaster's past tweets will, however, remain viewable to others while his account is locked in a "read-only" mode…
Brazil’s antitrust watchdog Cade is considering opening an investigation into Google over alleged abuses in its cell phone operating system, the president of the agency said in an interview published on Wednesday in newspaper Valor Economi…
A number of Instagram users have taken to social media to report a mysterious hack in which their profile photos are replaced by random stills from films.
Their account names have also been changed and they are unable to log in.
Thei…
Ordinary wi-fi could be used to detect weapons and explosives in public places, according to a study led by the Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Wireless signals can penetrate bags to measure the dimensions of metal objects or estimate…
Now that the Note 9’s all good and official, it’s time to move onto the next major smartphone. The Google Pixel 3 leaks haven’t quite hit the fever pitch we saw with Samsung’s device ahead of launch — though there’s still time. After all, …
The Internet of Things can transform business and process if done with intent
By: Mark Walker, associate vice president of Sub-Saharan Africa at International Data Corporation (IDC)
South Africa is already past the Internet of T…
Monster Hunter World - the blockbuster video game - has been banned by China's censors just days after going on sale.
The local publisher, Tencent, said the intervention had followed "a large number of complaints", but did not detail wh…
Emmanuel Tita Sama, Sales Director, West and Central Africa, Orange Business Services.
As emerging markets race to join the digital revolution they are fast being hijacked by cybercriminals, who are preying on the fledgling IT environm…
There are zombies on the internet - odd, undead lumps of code that roam endlessly seeking and finding fresh victims to infect that help keep the whole ugly horde staggering on, and on.
Most of these shambling data revenants are computer…
Solutions to business problems across Africa don’t need massive investment, they need lateral thinking to look at the challenges in a different way
There is a way to catch the challenges on the African continent in a web of innovat…
EmuParadise, an 18-year-old website offering downloads of classic computer games, has voluntarily shut down following legal action by Nintendo against two similar online portals.
All three offered a wide variety of old games in an unaut…
Uber announced a new program today called Profile Recommendations that takes advantage of machine intelligence to reduce user error when switching between personal and business accounts.
It’s not unusual for a person to have both type…
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is considering suspending operations at one of its mobile phone manufacturing plants in China due to slumping sales and rising labor costs, the Electronic Times reported on Monday.
Samsung might st…
This week the business and tech world was stunned when Elon Musk hinted on August 7, via Twitter of course, that he wanted to take Tesla private. The estimated price tag for such a move is commonly put at up to $72 billion. Shortly after …
Throughout August South Africa celebrates Women’s Month and to honour the work of women within the industry, ICE Africa is showcasing the inspiring work across gaming’s many sectors. From the world of casinos, Elmarie van Wyk, Gaming Manag…
With all-day performance, a new S Pen and intelligent camera, nothing keeps up with your life like Galaxy Note9
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced the latest addition to its premium Note series with Galaxy Note9. The Note s…
When Fortnite Battle Royale launched on Android, it made an unusual choice: it bypassed Google Play in favor of offering the game directly from Epic Games’ own website. Most apps and games don’t have the luxury of making this choice – the …
It’s not just inciting violence, threats and hate speech that will get Facebook to remove posts by you or your least favorite troll. Endangering someone financially, not just physically, or tricking them to earn a profit are now also stri…
Facebook is shutting down Friend List Feeds sometime today, according to a message posted in the Facebook app. The feature allowed users to scroll through only those posts from one of their designated friend lists — for example, family, w…
Two anti-Semitic posts have been deleted from fringe social network Gab after Microsoft, citing the content, threatened to take the site down.
The posts were made by Patrick Little, who says he is running for US president and wants to r…
Taxify, an Estonian ride-hailing company aiming to take on Uber [UBER.UL] in emerging markets, will invest millions of euros in East Africa in the next five years with a strategy focused on motorized rickshaws and motorcycles, it said on T…
Maybelline parent L’Oreal (OREP.PA) is pairing up with Facebook to roll out virtual tests for shoppers to see how they might look with different lipsticks or eye shadows, adding to its push to drive more sales online and through social med…
In India, the world’s second-biggest smartphone market, Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) normally deft management of government relations is being put to a fresh high-stakes test.
For almost two years, Apple has battled India’s telecom reg…
A parenting advice site has been fined £140,000 after it was accused of illegally collecting data and selling it on for use by the Labour Party, which used it to profile new mums.
Emma's Diary gathered data on more than a million people…
Snapchat is often name-dropped as being the must-have app for Millennials and their younger Generation Z cohorts, but new figures are causing concern that it could already have peaked.
For the first time, its parent Snap reported that t…
The Stories War has officially killed Snapchat’s growth, leading to its first user count decline ever. In Q2 2018 earnings today, Snapchat’s daily active users number shrank 1.5 percent to 188 million this quarter, down from 191 million an…
Apple Inc told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that its iPhones do not listen to users without their consent and do not allow third-party apps to do so either, after lawmakers asked the company if its devices were invading users’ privacy.
Rep…
When Gmail launched with its threaded conversation view feature as the default and only option, some people sure didn’t like it and Google quickly allowed users to turn it off. On mobile, though, you were stuck with it. But here’s some goo…
Samsung’s Galaxy S7 smartphones contain a microchip security flaw, uncovered earlier this year, that has put tens of millions of devices at risk to hackers looking to spy on their users, researchers told Reuters.
The Galaxy S7 and other…
Allows companies to maintain ownership and control of encryption keys and enforce data protection policies in leading cloud environments
Gemalto announced a next-generation key management solution, SafeNet Virtual KeySecure, for simpler…
Indian ride-hailing firm Ola said on Tuesday it plans to launch services in Britain this year, months after expanding operations in Australia, intensifying its rivalry with U.S. peer Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL].
Ola has obtained lic…
Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) is prepared to win against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google in China, its chief executive officer said on social media, amid rumblings the U.S. search engine giant was planning to re-enter a market it left eight years ago…
The BBC's web services are all currently blocked in China, following a decision by the corporation to change the website's format.
It has altered all of its addresses from beginning "HTTP" to "HTTPS", which is widely considered to be a …
Video Games made-in-Africa reach the Global Scene during Devcom Thanks to Paradise Game, ahead of Gamescom 2018
PARADISE GAME, the preeminent video game company in West Africa, will introduce five independent videogame studios from Afri…
India has asked its telecom operators to find ways of blocking applications such as Facebook and messaging app WhatsApp in the case of misuse, according to a document seen by Reuters.
India has in recent months intensified efforts to cr…
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