Category: Technology

Both eCommerce and bricks & mortar companies are exploring various channels to not only retain current customers but attract new business. The retail market has become so competitive that loyalty and reward programmes are widespread and are adapted to suit current market conditions. These programmes are now much more than a mere once-off merit or […]

Tumblr on Monday said it is banning adult content from the Yahoo-owned blogging platform, which saw its app pulled from Apple’s App Store last month over child pornography. Tumblr will begin enforcing its new policy on December 17, giving users who host unwanted explicit content an opportunity to take their imagery elsewhere, according to chief […]

An army of humans laid waste to an alien colony as South African video game maker Simon Spreckley enthusiastically controlled the action using his phone’s touch screen. “The penetration of mobile devices in Africa is huge. People often have two or three phones, which is pretty crazy,” said Spreckley, 40, who wore a T-shirt emblazoned […]

Eight months after revealing the links between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, whistleblower Christopher Wylie is pushing for the internet giant to be regulated – whether it wants to or not. He is scathing about Facebook’s “man-child” chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and the arrogance of the company he runs. “Facebook knew about what happened with Cambridge Analytica, […]

WABetaInfo announced that WhatsApp has submitted a new update through the Google Play Beta Program stating that it is testing new features for Android such as consecutive voice messages and group call shortcuts. The consecutive voice messages feature will allow users to continuously play voice messages if they are sent directly after each other. The new group call feature […]

A black Facebook employee’s post alleging racial discrimination at the social media giant has gone viral, depicting a racially tone-deaf company and challenging the “progressive” Silicon Valley company’s public image. Mark Luckie shared the message with Facebook management and employees earlier this month after leaving his post as Strategic Partner Manager for Global Influencers focused on Underrepresented […]

Netflix Inc said on Tuesday it will adapt celebrated British children’s author Roald Dahl’s books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda as animation series. The streaming company said it signed an agreement with the Roald Dahl Story Co, but did not disclose the financial terms. The other titles include The BFG, The Twits and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, […]

Honor which is a sub-brand belonging to Huawei has announced that their latest device the Honor 8X will be available in South Africa. It is a part of the company’s new mid-range devices that has a6.5″ Full View display up front and has a dual camera (20MP and 2MP) setup on the rear which features […]

An app that claims to vet babysitters is being investigated by Facebook, and has been blocked altogether by Twitter. Predictim, based in California, offers a service that scours a prospective babysitter’s social media activity in order to provide a score out of five to suggest how safe they may or may not be. It looks […]

A Chinese researcher who claims to have created the first gene-edited babies, He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUST), in Shenzhen, is now facing investigation over whether the experiment broke Chinese laws or regulations. On Sunday, MIT Technology Review was first to disclose a secretive project in China to produce children whose genomes had been modified […]