Category: Technology

Software development is still one of the top skills employers in South Africa are looking for. According to the December 2018 CareerJunction Index Report software developers remain highly sought after locally. The report indicates a 12 percent month-to-month increase in recruitment activity for software developers and more specifically professionals with C# and Java skills. According […]

Fifteen years after its founding, Facebook has made strides toward Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of connecting the world. But it has also made some huge missteps that have turned some of its cheerleaders into vocal detractors. The online social network founded on February 4, 2004 in Zuckerberg’s Harvard University dorm heads into adolescence with the grown-up […]

Huawei, the world’s second largest smartphone manufacturer by volume, have announced the arrival of the all new Huawei P Smart 2019 to South Africa. As the successor to the extremely popular P smart, Huawei expects to start 2019 with a bang. Originally launched in 2017 The P smart series has proved to be the go to device of many South Africans who […]

Chinese tech giant Huawei overtook Apple to become the second-largest smartphone seller in the world in 2018. It remains a privately held company, and little is known about its reclusive founder Ren Zhengfei, a former Chinese army engineer who rarely speaks to the media. The company was dragged into the spotlight late in 2018 when […]

The last week has seen an immense global backlash following the news that Facebook plans to integrate its three powerhouse messaging platforms – Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram – into one giant data quarry. If anyone was holding out for some tangible reason to fear the data implications of this, then perhaps the news just in that […]

The US Department of Justice has unsealed two indictments charging the Chinese technology giant Huawei of fraud and conspiracy to steal T-Mobile’s robot technology and dodge the US sanctions to do business in Iran. A 10-count indictment filed in Washington State claims Huawei conspired to steal T-Mobile’s intellectual property between 2012 and 2014, specifically the smartphone-testing robot […]

Apple Inc said on Monday it will issue a software patch later this week for a bug that lets iPhone users hear audio from users who have not yet accepted a video call. The bug, which Reuters was able to replicate, allows an iPhone user placing a call using Apple’s FaceTime video calling feature to […]

The brave new world of biometric identification and passport-less travel has arrived. Just when you thought the rapid pace at which technology is altering the way we go about our daily lives couldn’t gain any more velocity, something brand-new and exciting comes along. Case in point – Sydney Airport is currently running a facial recognition […]

WhatsApp on Thursday announced in a blog post that it will be adding new features to its WhatsApp Business desktop and web platforms. WhatsApp said in the post: “In January of last year we launched the WhatsApp Business app, and now there are more than five million businesses using it to support customers, grow their […]

American tech giant Google has opened a new office in Berlin that it says will give it the space to expand in the German capital. CEO Sundar Pichai said Tuesday the space means Google could more than double the number of Berlin employees to 300. Google currently has 1,400 employees in Germany. Pichai says “the […]