Mandy De Waal writes about recent controversies with Google SA’s policies and apparent discrepancies in their reseller certification program…

Google South Africa set the cat among the pigeons when country manager Stafford Masie revealed intentions to moderate SA’s search industry, saying some e-marketing companies were committing “fraud” against customers.
Masie stated “Google-certified agencies” would be introduced in [...]

James Tour and his students at Rice University have created vehicles only slightly bigger than strands of DNA…

The inventor of a car slightly wider than a strand of DNA took the top prize in nanotechnologies this week. James Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice University, won the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental nanotechnology [...]

dotSUB wants to crowdsource the translation of video, from any language, to any language.

dotSUB is a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language. There is nothing to buy and nothing to download. Recognizing the potential of global communication powered by the Internet, the founders of dotSUB created [...]

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Questionbox needs you! Questionbox extends the reach of the [...]

There’s a meme spreading through the African blogosphere asking the bloggers of the continent to explain why they do what they do. Personally I blog about African tech because I’ve been on the other side. Growing up in the U.S. there’s a lot of cynicism, distrust and fear when it comes to Africa. If you [...]

Evolution is the natural progression of biology over time when the inherited traits of a population of organisms is passed from one generation to the next. In theory, unfavorable traits are eliminated, while only the favorable ones (traits helpful to survival) are passed on. Barring genetic mutations that occur because of sheer odds and [...]

Last month Daniel Berninge posted some comments on GigaOM about his recent trip through Ghana…
A recent two-week visit to Ghana, Africa, offered up scenes that seemed frozen in time. Most of the buildings and infrastructure date back to the 1950s, before seven military coups over a period of 30 years made investment impossible. Open sewers [...]

Recently, I was in touch with the staff of ReadWriteWeb (one of the most popular technology blogs in the world with 231,000+ daily readers) and I was asked to write a three part essay on the state of social media and web development in Africa. In some way it’s only fitting that RWW devote more [...]

I recently wrote an article called “The Popularity of Programming Languages in Africa” where data from Google Insights was used to show how frequently different countries in the were world were searching for information related to various programming languages. Using that data (which was really only looking at the top ten countries representing each [...]

“Technology is at the heart of business expansion in Africa.”
- Teryl Schroenn, CEO Accsys