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This is interesting. Korean tech giant Samsung is set to give away a million copies of rapper Jay-Z's album for free.The album, entitled Magna Carta Holy Grail has a 4 July release date and is set to be given away to Samsung Galaxy phone owners 72 hours ahead of the official release.According to The Wall Street Journal, users will receive the music through an app later this month, although they won't be able to share it until the ...
Between Apple's string of announcements at WWDC, the annual gaming frenzy that is E3 and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth taking the South African government to court, it's been a pretty big week in tech.It was therefore pretty difficult to select the stories for Burning Hot, our weekly round-up of the most interesting stories across the Burn Media suite of sites. Fortunately Stuart Thomas was up to the task.The articles featured in the video include a piece on what it's ...
A group of grade 11 learners at Sinenjongo High School in Cape Town, South Africa has written four letters to major telecom operators Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and 8ta to address the need for free access to Wikipedia via their mobile phones. This comes after the Wikipedia Zero initiative promoted access of free knowledge in developing countries across the world. Many countries including Kenya, Uganda and India have adopted this policy with successful results in an attempt to reduce the ...
If you want to see real innovation, you should check out Africa. That's the message Stuff South Africa publisher and editor Toby Shapshak took to the TED Global stage and it's one that appears to have been incredibly well received by the audience.Shapshak apparently had the crowd in his hands from the moment he asked who among them had bought a pre-paid SIM card on arriving in Edinburgh, where the conference is being held.“You’re using African technology,” he ...
Ubuntu founder and South African-born tech billionaire Mark Shuttleworth is set to take the South African government to court in a bid to have the country's exchange control system declared unconstitutional.Shuttleworth also wants the Reserve Bank to pay back some R250-million (US$24.5-million) that he had to set aside to get his money out of the country in 2009. According to the South African Press Agency (SAPA), he also wants an order declaring the bank's so-called "closed-door policy", of insisting ...
Apple's 2013 WWDC keynote probably wasn't the most hyped in its history. After all, we weren't expecting any new iPhones or iPads and the iWatch is still very much theoretical at this stage.It makes sense then that the atmosphere was a lot more relaxed than the last few Apple launches have. That sense of quiet confidence was only aided by the fact that the rebranding of OS X with Mavericks didn't come with drastic changes and that market is ...
There's a lot going on over here at Burn HQ -- from stories about (ahem) interesting new social startups to NFC technology and why 3D printing may be a hit in Africa. But we've got our favourites.This week on Burning Hot, we've rounded up some of the top stories that the Burn Media team loved reading and writing. They include an article about Feathercoin -- the Bitcoin competitor which has generated a great deal of interest as the virtual currency ...
YouTube has tripled its mobile ad sales in the past six months, pulling in an estimated US$350-million for the Google-owned video-sharing platform.In an interview with Bloomberg, YouTube vice president of sales Lucas Watson revealed that a quarter of the platform's one-billion global users now access the service via handheld devices, pushing advertisers to pay more attention to the medium.“The commercial business has exploded,” Watson said in the interview. “It’s a huge part of our business, and we know ...
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