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Google Maps for Android has just become a lot more useful

Google Maps’ latest Android update is introducing a little context and information tab at the bottom of the app’s screen. The app, which still…

Apple sells 78m iPhones in quarter, record revenue in tow

Apple didn’t have the greatest fourth quarter results last year, but the new iPhone has done massive business for the brand. “The company posted…

Microsoft to cut 700 jobs this week – report

Microsoft is expected to cut 700 jobs this week, being part of a group of 2850 cuts announced last year, it has been reported….

Is Vitality’s Apple Watch deal worth it? Cape Town blogger finds out

Discovery Vitality’s Apple Watch deal is undeniably tempting. You buy Cupertino’s latest wearable packed with swanky tech, and exercise to drop the eventual price….

Ookla debuts Speedtest desktop app for Windows, Mac OS

Great news for those of you too lazy to open a web page. Ookla, the company behind popular internet benchmarking tool Speedtest, has this…

Marissa Mayer to step down from Yahoo board

Yahoo is shaking up its board and name several months after Verizon agreed to buy parts of it. The company is selling off much…

The 10 biggest tech deals and acquisitions of 2016

It wasn’t just a crazy year for prominent people dying, as 2016 played host to some rather noteworthy tech deals and acquisitions as well. We…

Apple to add security alerts for iCloud users, says Tim Cook

After the nude celebrity photographs leak Apple CEO Tim Cook, denied Apple’s part in the mess and placed the blame solely on users. Cook…

Google wants to take South Africa’s schoolkids on a virtual field trip

Think back to your school days for a moment. We bet you loved field trips right? They were a chance to get out of…

Get a drone’s-eye view of Apple’s up-and-coming Spaceship campus

Recent footage shot using a drone and a GoPro, shows us a 360 bird’s eye view of Apple’s new campus, aptly referred to as…

Take that Amazon: Google announces ‘Project Wing’, its delivery drone building effort

Google X, the highly secretive research arm of Google, has announced its latest project: autonomous delivery drones. Wait, haven’t we heard this one before?…

Steve Ballmer steps down from Microsoft board to focus on Clippers, civic duty

It’s over. Steve Ballmer has stepped down from his position on the Microsoft board. You may have thought it was all over when he…

This company lets you listen to certain locations in 3D on Google Street View

Google Street View is awesome. You can visit everywhere from deep inside the Amazon jungle to the top of Mount Everest — experiencing the…

Robin Williams gets his own Apple homepage tribute

Apple has joined the slew of companies paying tribute to Robin Williams following the actor and comedian’s suicide earlier this week. On its homepage,…

Microsoft wants you to creep celebs with its new iPhone app

Whether you like it or not, celebrities are a big thing. People love knowing popular personalities’ every move. To leverage this very creepy human…

I’m a Mac…and I’m a Surface? Microsoft’s new ad reignites an old debate

Cast your minds back a few years, to around 2006, and the start of Apple’s long-running “Get a Mac” campaign. The campaign, which starred…

Turn your GoPro footage into a hyperlapse with this awesome new Microsoft research project

So you’ve bought yourself a GoPro and you’ve taken it down a ski slope, or on that awesome coastal ride, or up that sheer…

Yahoo’s end-to-end encryption tool will combat email snooping

Yahoo is now the second major tech influencer to actively support email privacy. At Black Hat USA, the multifaceted tech giant recently announced to…

Google asks South African kids to dream and draw the country a doodle

We’ve had everything from bacteria and chocolate-covered insects to a functioning Rubik’s Cube — but Google’s not done yet. The search giant is inviting…

Microsoft’s Cortana whips Apple’s Siri in this new Windows Phone ad

Microsoft’s not shy when it comes to tackling its competition head-on — from openly pitting its Surface Pro 3 against the Macbook Air to…

Microsoft’s LMFAO parody to promote the Surface Pro 3 is super awkward

Okay, Microsoft is no stranger when it comes to troupes of dancers and snapping keyboards into place when promoting its Surface tablet… but this…

Google keeps on going with stellar Q2 results

Google released its second quarter numbers post the bell yesterday, they were very good. Revenues for the quarter were US$16-billion (an increase of 22%),…

Google celebrates Mandela Day with artful Doodle

Today is Mandela Day and all over South Africa and the world, people are taking 67 minutes of their day to help their community…

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