Translation in realtime looms

Near-realtime translation of a Skype call has been demonstrated, and the facility will be available as a downloadable app before the end of this year. Gurdeep Pall, corporate vice-president of Skype and Lync at Microsoft, writes in his corporate blog how he...

Wyzetalk adds another R8m in funding

Clifftop Colony Capital Partner, a Cape Town-based financial services firm focused on African venture capital and private equity investments, has completed the Series A funding round of R8-million for African social business company Wyzetalk. This brings the total...

MEA bucks trends, posts record tablet growth

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market bucked the global trend to record 77,3% year-on-year growth in shipments during the first quarter of 2014, according to the latest results from International Data Corporation (IDC). Shipments reached a total of 4-million...

IBM invention makes cloud more secure

IBM has patented a technique that helps online and cloud-based businesses improve their ability to eliminate fraud. It does this by analysing browsing behaviour to determine whether customers are who they say they are after accessing a Web site or app via a computer,...

Where are your kids going online?

Pornography and erotica tops the list of undesirable sites that children visit. This is according to a Kaspersky study analysing the Internet search patterns of young users. Ten categories of undesirable Web site content were chosen for the investigation: pornography...