Google is to become a new company called Alphabet.However, user won't have to start 'alphabeting' things to look them up on the internet.While Google Inc owns many companies (of which the search engine and Youtube are amongst the largest), it's been decided a restructure was needed.The ever-growing company hopes to separate its web companies from its research and investment divisions.Alphabet Inc

• Internet.org brings new users onto mobile networks on average over 50% faster after launching free basic services • More than half of the people who come online through Internet.org are paying for data and accessing the internet within the first month • Internet.org users accessed health services more than a million times just in the past monthNAIROBI, Kenya - Facebook (NASDAQ:F

Cybersecurity researchers have shown they can use the Internet to turn off a car's engine as it drives, sharply escalating the stakes in the debate about the safety of increasingly connected cars and trucks.Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek used a feature in the Fiat Chrysler telematics system Uconnect to break into a Jeep Cherokee being driven on the highway by a reporter for technology news site

Zimbabwean operators are slow in adopting mobile number portability (MNP) as they are not opening up their numbering systems to subscribers intending to switch to other networks, according to ITWeb. It said telecom industry officials and executives have said the Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) should enforce mobile number portability.Sources said this require

The new Fortuner will also be introduced in 2016 after spy pictures surfaced on a Thai Facebook page devoted to the new Fortuner.The new Fortuner will make its global debut on Thursday (July 16).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Y9eiP9vDM

JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, July 2, 2015/ -- With smartphone penetration ramping up across Africa, the continent's businesses have an opportunity to use mobile technology to become more efficient, productive, and responsive in the way they do business. According to the Ericsson Mobility Report for 2015, there were more than 910 million mobile subscriptions in Africa by the first quarter of 20

Samsung wants to make the roads safer, particularly when it comes to overtaking large trucks.The company has developed a system which employs four large-screen monitors and a camera fitted to a big rig - allowing drivers behind the heavy vehicle to see oncoming traffic and decide whether it is safe to overtake.The video below shows the technology in action.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GNGfse9Z

San Francisco - Google is making it easier to avoid getting into trouble with a misdirected or inappropriate email.An option to cancel the delivery of an email within 30 seconds of hitting the send button is now a standard safeguard in Google's Gmail as part of a settings change made this week.The "undo send" feature had previously been available for several years in Google's experimental labs, re

 - Land Rover announces build of 2 000 000th Series Land Rover and Defender at Solihull manufacturing facility, UK - Adventurer and Land Rover Ambassador Bear Grylls joins special team to assemble Defender 2 000 000 - The one-of-a-kind vehicle will be sold at an exclusive charity auction at Bonhams auction house on 16 December 2015 as production of current Defender enters its final

 - Jaguar Land Rover researchers developing new sensing technologies that will work in all weathers and in all environments – so any future autonomous vehicles can go anywhere - Autonomous driving prototypes revealed include the ‘Multi-Point Turn' Range Rover, which will perform an autonomous 180-degree turn in the road - Jaguar Land Rover's vision is to create driver-focussed a

Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe chief executive officer, Obert Muganyura, claims that Zimbabwe to start receiving digital signal in August this year.Muganyura told ZiFM that the country will be fully digitalised by February 2016.Zimbabwe missed the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) deadline to digitalise local broadcasting by June 2015.Zimbabwe bought digital transmission equipment w

Zimbabwe bought digital transmission equipment worth $6 million using part of a $125 million facility signed between the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe and China's Huawei International.The equipment, some of which is already in the country, will be used for migration from analogue to digital broadcasting as set by the International Telecommunications Union.While confirming that Zimbabwe would

Zimbabwe has fully complied with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) requirements for the digitisation of television broadcasting ahead of the deadline on 17 June. There had been fears that people would not be able to receive the TV signals on time, The Herald reported. Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe CEO Obert Muganyura said the country had complied with the ITU requirement that a

Top U.S. tech companies are warning the Obama administration against imposing new policies that the companies say would weaken increasingly sophisticated encryption systems designed to protect consumers' privacy.In a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama on Monday, two industry associations representing major software and hardware companies said, "We are opposed to any policy actions o

IN what could be a major breakthrough in the history of science and technology in the country, a Zimbabwean man has manufactured an electric car, the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development, Oppah Muchinguri, said yesterday.Muchinguri said the electric car would be launched in Harare next week.Addressing a Zanu-PF star rally at Mbizo 4 Shopping Centre in Kwek