With streaming platforms, next-gen gaming, and hybrid lifestyles reshaping how we consume entertainment, the humble TV is slowly being overtaken by a bigger player:…
UltraViolet: Hollywood’s cloud-based movie solution
Giants from Hollywood, technology and retail are out to rev up digital film sales by letting people buy lifetime rights to watch movies on…
Tablets, smart gadgets, balls, blocks and cars rule at CES
Slick touchscreen tablet computers and smarter devices for the home and the car took centre stage as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wrapped up…
The ‘smart home’ is finally becoming a reality
Mobile phones aren’t the only things getting smart. Home appliances are too. On display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas along…
SA filmmaker makes YouTube’s ‘Life in a Day’ cut
South African, Kjell Bismeyer’s clip entitled ,’Elephants swimming by moonlight‘, will be included in the film Life In A Day, a cinematic experiment which…
Trillion-dollar forecast for gadget sales
Global gadget sales may top one trillion dollars this year for the first time ever. Organisers at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) in Las…
‘LePad’: The combined laptop and tablet
Chinese computer colossus Lenovo has unveiled an IdeaPad computer that serves as a laptop for work tasks then converts to a touch-screen tablet for…
A glimpse of our ‘always-connected’ future
Smarter devices, homes and cars for the “always-connected lifestyle” are taking centre stage as the annual Las Vegas-based Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Slick new…
Microsoft sold 8m Kinects in first two months
Microsoft sold more than eight million gesture-sensing Kinect controllers for Xbox 360 game consoles in just two months, says the company’s chief executive Steve…
‘Proof’ from China that the iPad 2 will have a camera
Protective cases for the second generation iPad are being sold on Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba — even before Apple has launched the new device…
Twitter turned down $500m Facebook offer
Twitter apparently turned down a 500 million dollar purchase offer from the social networking site Facebook in 2008, according to the Financial Times. In…
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