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Danielle Kruger
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Danielle Kruger
Daniëlle is an IT and tech journalist focused on gaming, gadgets and emerging technologies in a number of key industries.
Only 23 percent of global STEM talent is female
In an era where South African women have become increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? Encouragement vs. acumen seems to be the key to speeding up the take-up of careers…
New Honor service store opens in Durban
Honor, the young, pioneering technology smartphone brand, has announced that all Honor consumers would be welcomed at the first Huawei Service store in KwaZulu-Natal, at the Cornubia Mall in Durban. With the official launch of the brand in…
Apple rewards 14-year-old who discovered the FaceTime bug
After deploying a fix for its notorious FaceTime bug, Apple is compensating the boy who discovered it in the first place. A 14-year-old high school student named Grant Thompson from Tucson, Arizona was the first to pick up on the…
Apple rails against secret screen recordings
In a recent article from TechCrunch, it was revealed that Apple is calling for the removal of code that lets developers record how a user interacts with their iPhone apps or face having their apps removed from the App Store…
SONA, Bushiri and 21 Savage ranked as top Google searches this week
The second State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa garnered a lot of interest from netizens this week, with South Africans generating more than 100 000 search queries for “SONA 2019” on Wednesday and more than 10 000…
South Korea wants to partner on African tech
In partnership with the African Development Bank, Korea is ready to step up technology transfers to Africa. Speaking at a meeting on potential technology partnerships between Korea and Africa, representatives of Busan Metropolitan City, Busan Techno Park, and Korea’s Green…
Top 5 Industries to benefit from AI
The mention of the words Artificial Intelligence (AI) conjures up science fiction-like images in the minds of many people, but it is becoming a very real part of day to day life without us even realising it. AI is and…
South Africa sees the return of Global Legal Hackathon
The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law (HiiL) and global law firm Baker McKenzie announced that Global Legal Hackathon is returning to South Africa this February. Global Legal Hackathon is an annual event through which lawyers, technologists and civil society…
ENGIE starts operations of a new concentrated solar plant
ENGIE is pleased to announce that commercial operation was achieved on 30 January 2019 for the 100 MW Kathu Solar Park in South Africa. This state of the art plant is a greenfield Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project…
Sanjay Mirchandani succeeds Bob Hammer as CEO of Commvault
Commvault has announced the appointment of Sanjay Mirchandani as President, Chief Executive Officer, and member of the Board, effective immediately. Mirchandani, previously the CEO of Puppet, an Oregon-based IT automation company, replaces retiring President and CEO Bob Hammer. Hammer has…
Euphoria Telecom appoints new management
Euphoria Telecom co-founders, George Golding, Rafal Janik and Conrad de Wet, have appointed new leadership to help take the company to new heights. They will continue to drive the company at a high level while John Woollam and Nic Laschinger…
Kingdom Hearts III ships over 5 mln units within first week of release
Square Enix announced that Kingdom Hearts III, the latest mainline entry in the beloved action RPG series, has shipped more than five million units globally, both physically and digitally, across all platforms since its 29th January release, making it the…
Google now ties your identity to your collected data
Up until recently, Google collected your data but never directly tied your identity to it. It has since lifted the ban on personally identifiable web tracking and can now use all of the information collected from your searches, your email,…
Africa Blockchain Alliance partners with ConsenSys Academy
The Africa Blockchain Alliance has partnered with ConsenSys Academy, the educational core of the Ethereum movement to bring to focus the Blockchain Developer Program to Africa. The goal of this program is to give developers the opportunity to gain the…
Are internet shutdowns the new norm in Africa?
In this day and age, access to the internet is widely considered a human right. For many, it is the main way they conduct business, communicate and experience the world they live in. However, this right has been infringed upon…
Cortex Logic secures investment to grow business beyond Africa
South African based Artificial Intelligence Software & Solutions provider Cortex Logic secures growth investment to expand its reach to new clients in Europe & USA. Cortex Logic is an African Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and solutions company that helps businesses…
