Big Tech

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…

Google South Africa reveals top searches for 2016

From the US elections and Donald Trump to Pokemon Go and the Olympics, 2016 has been another crazy year for Google searches. Now, the Mountain…

Google launches My Business to help brands on Search, Maps and Google+

Google, the site that brings many of your customers to your door, has just released a new tool called Google My Business. The free…

Google is hooking you up for the World Cup

No guys, we have not hit World cup overload yet, not when Google has decided to throw in a World Cup experience you will…

Can’t make it to Brazil? Go inside the World Cup stadiums on Street View

Love soccer but don’t have the motivation (or means) to get off the couch and attend the upcoming FIFA World Cup games in person?…

Apple’s ad wants you to know that the iPhone is still its best fitness device

Apple’s latest ad confirms something we’ve thinking for a while now: when it comes to health and fitness, smartphones are pretty much still the…

Google offers mail encryption tool for paranoid Chrome users

Google announced a new tool called End-to-End that encrypts your email when it leaves your web browser until it is decrypted by the recipient…

Apple is breaking down silos and focusing on how customers use tech

Its easy to get caught up in feature-hype. After all, Apple probably announced over 1000 new features for its OSX and iOS operating systems…

Gone baby gone: Google receives 12k ‘removal requests’ in 48 hours

Privacy settings, a hot-button topic many websites do their best to avoid, get the royal treatment from Google as a new “right to be…

Google sets it sights on the stratosphere by investing in satellite internet access

Google is looking to make the world a better place by providing worldwide internet access, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. According to…

5 things you should know about Apple’s $3-billion Beats buy

Apple is officially acquiring the stylish audio product company Beats for a total of US$3-billion. Founded by Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre (formally Andre…

Microsoft reveals Skype Translate: a real time voice interpreter

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that in the future Microsoft’s Skype will be able to translate voice and video calls in near-real-time. Nadella’s news…

Reasonable response? Google Glass fans fight restaurant ban with bad reviews

Imagine for a moment that you’ve just become a proud Google Glass owner. Now imagine that you’ve gone to a restaurant, your mind filled…

Microsoft’s laplet: hubris, hype and hopeless enterprise-based optimism

On Tuesday Microsoft fooled pundits who’d been predicting the announcement of a smaller addition to its Surface range of tablet computers by announcing a…

With the Surface Pro 3, Microsoft seems more confused about the future than ever

This time, Microsoft means business. At the original Surface tablet launch in 2012, it told us it meant business. Again, at the far more…

Google brings in the big guns to help make Glass look cool

Google’s most ambitious wearable tech device has had something of an image problem ever since its release. It was famously not helped by Robert…

Procrastination warning: today’s Google doodle is a functioning Rubick’s Cube

Oh no. There goes your productive Monday. The team over at Google has put together an interactive doodle for the 40th anniversary of the…

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