Today at 20:27:11 - Most South Africans can't live without their cellphones, and many worry they might miss something if they turn them off, a survey has found.

Today at 19:12:43 - IBM has started a two-year research programme that aims to make cellphones easier to use for the elderly and more accessible to people with disabilities.

Today at 18:08:50 - Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, says an Aboriginal leader.

Today at 17:22:09 - Google Maps have added bicycle lanes, but initially these will only be available in the US.

Today at 15:06:17 - The US could source 10% of its electricity from solar power by 2030, according to a report presented to Congress.

Today at 14:07:26 - A baby elephant believed to have died during labour has been born alive at an Australian zoo.

Today at 18:20:22 - Australian scientists say the discovery of a genetically distinct colony of Tasmanian devils may save the species from being wiped out by a contagious cancer.

Today at 14:21:34 - China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions.

Today at 10:28:01 - A Belgian daily newspaper has offered its readers a new perspective on the world with a 3D edition complete with special glasses.

Today at 10:25:01 - The online blogosphere was abuzz as Twitter users and bloggers responded to the news of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's verbal attack on her ex-husband, Nelson Mandela.

Today at 06:00:01 - On the face of it, there is nothing particularly remarkable about a 19-second YouTube clip called Me at the Zoo. [VIDEO]

Today at 06:00:01 - Operators of the world's largest atom smasher have restarted their massive machine in the run-up to experiments probing secrets of the universe.

Today at 15:29:00 - Group results show negative operational cash flow, billions in fund outflows, and dropping new business margins.

Today at 15:22:27 - The company spends heavily on local and African infrastructure, as the managed IT services market grows.

Today at 15:21:11 - Governance frameworks are not implemented as quickly as new technologies are being deployed, says Standard Bank.

Today at 15:20:48 - CEOs view smartphones and collaboration tools as a critical part of doing business, say analysts.

Today at 15:19:54 - The group deploys Tibco's messaging, BPM and SOA software to streamline services to SA members.

Today at 13:29:26 - This year's event will evaluate the progress of the ICT industry's BEE charter.

Today at 12:42:59 - The company secures commitments to raise R55 million of the R60 million it needs.

28/02/2010 at 07:06:00 - Former President Nelson Mandela's home village of Qunu south of Mthatha in the Eastern Cape is set to become a rural economic hub. A R4.5 million Integrated Fuel Centre was launched yesterday by Energ ...

15/02/2010 at 18:22:00 - The East African Submarine System better known as (EASSY) was landed successfully on the KwaZulu-Natal coast today the system will provide better, faster and cheaper telephone calls and internet acce ...

15/02/2010 at 08:52:00 - The National Research Foundation (NRF) says it has commenced with the disciplinary hearing of the South African Astronomical Observatory Director Phil Charles. Charles was suspended earlier this month ...

12/02/2010 at 10:45:00 - A US high-powered airborne laser weapon shot down a ballistic missile in the first successful test of a futuristic directed energy weapon, the US Missile Defense Agency said today.

12/02/2010 at 10:25:00 - The shuttle Endeavour crew bolted the last connecting module onto the International Space Station today, completing more than a decade of major construction on the outpost.

25/02/2010 at 02:54:32 - The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in South Africa considers the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa) announcement on the electricity tariff increase as one more reason to halt ...

23/02/2010 at 04:59:57 - South Africa’s very own all-electric car known as “Joule” will be on show next month at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland, one of Europe’s most important automotive indust ...

22/02/2010 at 06:06:03 - South Africa must never be shy to compete against the best countries in the world, said science and technology Minister Naledi Pandor after witnessing the first images from the Sumbandila satellite ...

17/02/2010 at 04:38:13 - South Africa is one of the first countries to introduce the multilateration radio tracking system for air traffic tracking and control. This system costs less than a secondary radar system would, y ...

15/02/2010 at 04:53:44 - Another step towards increased connectivity for Africans was achieved this weekend when the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) was anchored in Mtunzini, on the north coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal. ...

Today at 02:20:02 - Rumours that Twitter will launch search-based advertising are gathering pace in cyberspace.

Today at 02:20:02 - Sony claims it has fixed a bug in the PlayStation 3 which crashed millions of consoles for 24 hours.

09/03/2010 at 02:20:02 - The Queen is warning that internet use has become an "unaffordable option" for many people living in Commonwealth countries.

09/03/2010 at 02:20:02 - A New Zealand inventor has put a bizarre floating machine that can also take to the skies up for sale.

06/03/2010 at 02:20:04 - Cabinet minister Ed Miliband has become the latest politician to fall prey to a Twitter scam that sees sexually explicit messages sent from MPs' accounts.

05/03/2010 at 02:20:02 - Millions of web users across Europe are being asked by Microsoft if they want to continue using its Internet Explorer (IE) or change to another browser.

Today at 21:13:11 - A baby elephant believed to have died during a nine-day labour was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, amazing its keepers and defying expert opinion that such an outcome would take a "mirac ...

Today at 21:13:11 - China plans to launch its third unmanned mission to the moon in 2013, even as it selected two women astronauts for the first time to take part in its future space lab.

Today at 21:13:11 - There are 40 tigers in the Ranthambore National Park (RNP) as per the 2009 census of the big cat, the Assembly was informed on Wednesday.

Today at 21:13:11 - More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed a complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S. technology company, a lawyer for th ...

Today at 21:13:11 - Malaysians` voracious appetite for turtle eggs could drive the marine creatures to extinction on its shores, conservationists warned on Wednesday.

Today at 22:33:12 - Centuries-old shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany.

Today at 07:33:07 - The discovery of a genetically different population of Tasmanian devils has raised hopes for the survival of the iconic Australian mammal threatened by a deadly cancer.

Today at 03:48:10 - Waterbirds previously only found on Queensland's eastern seaboard are being seen for the first time by Gulf of Carpentaria rangers around Burketown in the state's north-west.

Today at 03:48:10 - Researchers have uncovered the courses of ancient river systems under the Simpson Desert in Central Australia.

Today at 03:03:07 - Tasmania's Department of Infrastructure plans to extend a bridge on the Brighton Bypass to protect an aboriginal heritage site.

Today at 22:29:09 - AFP - A respected international scientific body will conduct the independent review of the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, the world bo ...

Today at 22:29:07 - AFP - The US military plans to step up the use of video-games, hoping to curb casualties on the battlefield by training troops through simulations, a commander said Wednesday.

Today at 22:14:07 - AFP - A top Google executive told US lawmakers Wednesday that the Internet giant is prepared to leave China if Beijing says it must censor Web searches or quit the world's most populous online market.

Today at 22:15:03 - AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blame ...

Today at 21:59:07 - AP - A court in Azerbaijan has rejected the appeal of two bloggers who were sentenced to prison last year in a case that supporters say was politically motivated.

Today at 22:11:04 - Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that's ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.

Today at 22:11:04 - Democrats opposed to Meg Whitman's gubernatorial campaign are hoping to get an assist from the public in their latest bid to push voters away from the Republican candidate.

Today at 21:26:05 - Peter Smith was riding his bike down a particularly busy road in Austin, Texas, when, amid a frightening blur of big-truck traffic, a thought hit him:

Today at 15:41:01 - Geeks rock. With South by Southwest Interactive on the way, we use that convergence of techie and music culture to run down the top 10 geek rock tunes of all time.

09/03/2010 at 20:26:01 - The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California ...

Today at 21:59:09 - The InterAcademy Counil will be reviewing climate data produced by the UN's IPCC.

Today at 17:39:00 - Some scientists believe that bonobos, like humans, share and enjoy the company of others while eating.

09/03/2010 at 17:59:02 - Waters from warmer latitudes, or subtropical waters, are reaching Greenland's glaciers, driving melting and likely triggering an acceleration of ice loss, reports a team of researchers from the Woods ...

09/03/2010 at 01:20:00 - Hives exposed to pyrethroid pesticides demonstrated inhibited reproductive abilities.

09/03/2010 at 01:09:00 - Researchers struggle to explain the price drop associated with wines carrying eco-labeling.

Today at 21:43:13 - Bangalore-based IT consulting and BPO services provider MphasiS has set up a Global Command and Control Centre (GCCC) in Pune. The centre is expected to enhance the company's infrastructure-outsourcin ...

Today at 21:43:13 - The Maharashtra government has formed a joint venture with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to step up its efforts to provide online citizen services.

Today at 21:43:13 - Information technology (IT) major Infosys Technologies has witnessed an increase in outsourcing deals as all major markets are back on the recovery track, a top company official said.

Today at 21:43:13 - Imagine this scenario. Pyarelal Shankar a grocery store owner in Haryana is not computer literate. Yet, he manages to regularly update his inventory online.

Today at 21:43:13 - Over the last one year, Advait Kulkarni, a self-confessed 34-year-old sports enthusiast, has been glued to the internet at work and home. I have been increasingly visiting sports sites like ESPN and t ...

Today at 20:59:14 - UN, Climate Panel To Get Outside Review From World's Top Scientists After Spate Of Errors

Today at 20:59:14 - Study Fnds that One Kind Deed Fosters Similar Behavior by Original Recipients

Today at 20:59:14 - Google To Digitize Thousands Of Old Books In National Libraries In Rome And Florence - including Works by Galileo

Today at 19:59:08 - Behindthebuy.com's David Gregg previews the latest portable and water proof electronics for the beach, under water and travel just in time for Spring Break.

Today at 19:59:08 - Some of Today's Biggest Tech Trends - Social Networking, Smartphones and Internet TV - Shared Dubious Beginnings

Today at 19:59:08 - Genetically Distinct Colony Shows Immunity to Cancer that Has Ravaged the Iconic Animal

Today at 21:05:15 - Labour has called on the Government to regulate mobile termination rates to keep call costs down. The rates are charged by one mobile operator to connect with another network. Last month, the Commerce ...

Today at 21:05:15 - Sony has some competition in the soon-to-become reality 3D TV market - and things are evenly poised. READ ALSO: Sky TV a little more interested than it lets on Yesterday I checked out a 50-inch Panaso ...

Today at 21:05:15 - Panasonic and Samsung have become the first companies in the world to commercially market 3D TVs (which also display a conventional picture). Their prices are more than triple that of today’s te ...

09/03/2010 at 20:43:22 - Six start-up companies offering very different services will compete for a prize worth over $70,000 on Saturday, during the two-day Planet 2010 communications and technology conference in Auckland. Th ...

09/03/2010 at 19:42:46 - Stocks on Wall Street have climbed as the telecommunications sector continued to steam ahead after Cisco Systems announced a new high-speed internet router. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 48 p ...

Today at 19:29:04 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google has not changed its decision to stop censoring its Chinese search site even if it means leaving that market, a senior executive told a U.S. Congressional panel on Wednesd ...

Today at 13:31:09 - HELSINKI (Reuters) - IBM has started a two-year research program that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.

Today at 07:52:51 - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short "Logorama," are moving into the live-action world -- but they aren't going Hollywood just yet.

Today at 05:39:52 - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year.

Today at 05:06:30 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventuall ...

Today at 19:00:00 -   LG were already ahead of the field bringing its passive 3D technology LCD TV (LD920) which is being rolled out in pubs across the country.   But now LG hope to lead the 3D revolution by ...

Today at 18:58:00 - Five months after the release of Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward have announced that the first downloadable content pack for the game will be released for Xbox 360 on March 30t ...

Today at 18:54:51 - With Samsung already out of the blocks with its new Lovefilm-friendly TVs, Sony was never going to be far behind in detailing its plans. The tech giant has confirmed today that its new Bravia Internet ...

Today at 18:31:43 - Following up on the success of the original Active released in May 2009 for the Wii, EA Sports is gearing up for the release of its second Active fitness product which will also launch on the PS3 and ...

Today at 18:26:26 - Facebook’s Gareth Davis has told the world’s best developers to get working on “killer” games for the social network.   Speaking at the opening of the Game Developer&rsq ...

Today at 18:41:32 - British rock group Pink Floyd has initiated legal action against record label EMI over disputed online royalty payments. read more

Today at 18:20:56 - Yahoo has continued its long, slow and unsurprising decline in the search market space. read more

Today at 17:42:21 - An ARM spokesperson has predicted that the launch of Apple’s iPad will prompt the release of over 50 rival tablet PC devices in 2010. read more

Today at 14:00:16 - MySpace is planning a major overhaul, aiming to cut the clutter and improve entertaiment features. read more

Today at 13:33:01 - What's being called the world's first On-Line Electric Vehicle (OLEV) has been introduced in Seoul. read more

Today at 12:53:06 - Well, you can't say there isn't a need for it. After scam after scam, Twitter is introducing a service to foil the phishers. read more

Today at 09:24:25 - Satyam Computer Services, in its new incarnation, `Mahindra Satyam,' still faces the aftermath of what happened on January 7, 2009, when its chairman B Ramalinga Raju confessed to orchestrating India ...

Today at 07:10:58 - The US will start accepting the applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April one for the fiscal 2011.

Today at 06:49:38 - The proposed multi-year contract between TCS and the UK government for administering its employment savings trust has evoked adverse comments from some British websites.

Today at 06:48:55 - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, launched a smartphone based on Google's Android operating system in South Korea, as it seeks to boost its relatively weak smartphone line-ups.

09/03/2010 at 12:43:31 - Almost six months after its international launch, LG GD 510 has come to India.

Today at 09:08:53 - Catch-up television over the internet has proved hugely popular in the UK, with the BBC's iPlayer leading the way, but most households are limited to watching on a computer screen.

Today at 09:01:15 - With so many ways to find, and places to watch, television, these are rich and exciting times for viewers. Now we can build our own television schedule around the other things we want to do, in ...

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05/03/2010 at 21:22:00 - Cyber-savvy smokers looking to quit on next week's No Smoking Day can kick the habit on Facebook.

Today at 03:27:14 - A MAN has been jailed for murdering his ex-girlfriend after he saw a picture of her on Facebook with another man.

Today at 03:23:25 - SONY says it will start selling 3D televisions in Japan in June, aiming to ride a new wave of interest in the technology.

Today at 03:00:34 - A BEST man's wedding prank results in possibly the first-ever conception recorded on Twitter, but the couple may never know.

Today at 00:21:32 - SEX.COM, often touted as one of the most valuable internet domain names, is due to head to the auction block next week.

Today at 00:09:58 - WOMAN fails in court attempt to show how the world's most powerful atom-smasher could cause a "black hole doomsday".

Today at 00:01:24 - INTERNET giant Google is testing a new television search service with Dish Network, The Wall Street Journal reports.

09/03/2010 at 22:30:00 - In Switzerland a majority of those over 65 years old do not use the internet, with many citing fears over technology use and the effort needed to learn about the web.

02/03/2010 at 09:39:00 - On holidays men are more likely to get malaria and sexually transmitted diseases whereas women suffer from stomach problems, Swiss research has found.

22/02/2010 at 18:32:00 - The timing of recent attempts to cast doubt over global warming is not accidental, according to top climatologist Martin Beniston.

22/02/2010 at 09:43:00 - The experimental Rolex Learning Centre, the talk of the architectural world, has opened its doors to students at Lausanne's Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).

13/02/2010 at 19:36:49 - A Swiss journalist marooned five days in a French farmhouse with access only to Twitter and Facebook says social networking benefits the profession - sort of.

05/03/2010 at 11:23:00 - Travelling by the Delhi Metro? With Google's new service you can now get on-the-go information about schedules, routes, prices and commute times

03/03/2010 at 19:31:00 - The project, a collaboration between the Delhi government and the Survey of India, aims to create a comprehensive 3-dimensional GIS for Delhi

03/03/2010 at 14:38:00 - A Delta IV rocket will carry the satellite to its orbit around 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) above the Earth's surface

03/03/2010 at 07:03:00 - Apple said HTC has infringed on 20 of its patents covering aspects of the iPhone's user interface and hardware

02/03/2010 at 14:04:00 - The C5 handset will be one of the cheapest smartphones from Nokia, selling for 135 euros ($183), excluding taxes and subsidies, and hitting the shelves next quarter

04/03/2010 at 16:09:07 - You might think that measuring the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would be a priority. If you did think that, though, you would be wrongIN NEGOTIATIONS on nuclear weapons the preferred s ...

04/03/2010 at 13:17:22 - How to predict the consistency of snow“THE wrong type of snow” became famous as a lame excuse in Britain in February 1991 when, caught out by a cold snap, British Rail blamed severe disrup ...

04/03/2010 at 13:17:22 - If females must compete, evolution will furnish them with weapons to do soWHEN a species evolves traits that seem to have little to do with individual survival—bright colours, say, or oversize h ...

04/03/2010 at 13:17:22 - The earliest animal tracks yet found have been unearthed in CanadaONE of the greatest mysteries of the history of life is the Cambrian explosion. Prior to 560m years ago, animal fossils are rare. Then ...

04/03/2010 at 13:17:21 - In "Signs of life" (February 27th) we said that the Square Kilometre Array radio-telescope collaboration planned to build its grid over a square kilometre of land. In fact, it is the combined collecti ...

26/02/2010 at 03:00:00 - "Week by week, cybercriminals dress one of their infamous creations in a different costume, VirusBuster's experts report. The malware Trojan.FraudLoad has been distributed in e-mail messages pretendin ...

25/02/2010 at 06:00:00 - "The number of active mobile subscriptions grew 19,000 to 10.95 million in January, the communications authority NHH announced. The number subscriptions per 100 stood at 118.2 at the end of January, b ...

12/02/2010 at 05:00:00 - "Bredolab, a malicious program which last flooded the net in mid-December, seems to have launched a new offensive, VirusBuster warned. The Hungary-based specialist of computer security is one of the f ...

11/02/2010 at 06:00:00 - "Hungary's mobile carrier Pannon has set ambitious goals in its 2009 earnings report published on Wednesday.

09/02/2010 at 03:00:00 - "The first month of 2010 was even more peaceful than the already quiet December, at least as far as the Hungarian malware landscape is concerned. The only surprise was the resurrection of an old worm, ...

10/02/2010 at 15:05:48 - The Czech Republic's first and only science centre has recently celebrated its first birthday. Techmania, based in the western industrial city of Plzen, has already demonstrated its pulling power bas ...

09/02/2010 at 18:16:23 - Dr. Helena Illnerová is a biochemist, and one of the top minds in the Czech Republic. She is involved in practically every major academic committee there is in the country, from the council of the Nat ...

09/02/2010 at 16:53:55 - The Institute of Experimental Medicine in Prague has made a potentially very important breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries. Using stem cells on paralysed rats, the team has managed to heal a ...

03/02/2010 at 16:46:00 - Czech scientists working in Mozambique have discovered a new species of fish that inhabits the rain pools of the savannah. Types of tiny killifish are found in many parts of the world, but what is uni ...

28/01/2010 at 17:43:24 - As of Tuesday, the Czech Republic boasts new air navigation technology that will give the country's aviation an edge over neighboring Germany and Poland. The newly acquired 3D tower simulator is capa ...

06/01/2010 at 14:29:00 - The US Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe, just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. Scientists released the photo today ...

06/01/2010 at 13:08:00 - On Tuesday, Google took the wraps off what may be the worst-kept secret on the Internet: a brand-new cell phone, designed by Google and made by HTC, called the Nexus One.

06/01/2010 at 11:18:00 - Google has also jumped on the phone bandwagon. It has now launched its own mobile phone, Nexus One. This phone joins about 20 other mobile devices that already run on Android, the mobile operating sys ...

31/12/2009 at 13:20:00 - What caused Wednesday's fire at one of India's best-protected and most-renowned nuclear centres? Originally, a short circuit was suspected to have caused the accident. But now, it turns out that one o ...

17/12/2009 at 09:48:00 - Athena Gurno thought her allergies were acting up when she started coughing in early October. But within days, Gurno, the 30-year-old mother of a young girl, was in a Seattle hospital, close to death ...