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Future Nokia devices will be branded as Microsoft Lumia, company confirms

So it seems Microsoft has finally stuck the dagger into Nokia’s ailing heart. The company once famed for making those indestructible Nokia 3310s we…

Google’s Inbox app wants to revolutionise email on your phone

Ever since Gmail was released over 10 years ago as Google’s free email service, it’s become one of the world’s most popular applications. People…

Google Street View enables humans to hang out with their blood-related chimpanzees

There is not a place Google has not taken us human beings, be it for education or leisure. It appears that Google wants to…

Here’s everything you need to know about the software Apple launched today

While most of the attention from today’s Apple event was aimed squarely at the new iPads and Macs being launched, there was plenty for…

Apple says iPhone 6 smashed 30 day sales record, gives no actual numbers

Everyone barring the most stringent pessimists knew that the iPhone 6 was going to sell well, but just how well it’s sold in its…

WeChat cannot succeed in Africa if it holds tight to its Chinese legacy

WeChat is blazing around the globe caring very little of what is in its path. In the last year, the platform’s global launch has…

Skype tries to take on Snapchat with quirky video app called Qik

Skype has just relaunched an app called Qik (pronounced “quick” and not to be confused with Kwik). Unlike its flagship Skype service — which…

Google told to change its privacy policy, give users more control… or else

Google’s questionable new privacy policy is in the spotlight again, after an investigation ordered by European Union data collection authorities has asked the company…

Little Nemo in Googleland: Celebrating a comic great

If you like comics there is a chance you remember the adventures on Little Nemo in Slumberland. No? Not ringing any bells? Well Google…

Goodbye Zune: Microsoft launches Xbox Music to take on iTunes and Spotify

So long, Zune… hello Xbox Music. Microsoft has been slowly retiring its Zune brand over the past year, making way for its next attempt…

Google’s African affair: An internet giant puts its money where its mouth is

At the start of last year I wrote an article for Memeburn with the only slightly tongue-in-cheek headline: “Instead of smallpox Google is colonising…

Busted: Apple caught tracking iPhone users… again

Another day another issue with an Apple product. Sigh. Except maybe you should hold off on that sigh, because this one’s serious. Apple has,…

The biggest Street View update ever includes palaces and Table Mountain

So, have you spent enough of your time swimming with turtles in Australia? Good… because Google has just released a batch of new special…

Eric Schmidt: Android-Apple fight will define industry, MS Surface could be big

Eric Schmidt thinks the battle between Google’s mobile platform Android and Apple could be the “defining fight in the industry today.” He also believes…

Google brings Steve Biko’s life, apartheid, holocaust online

This is very cool. Google is today bringing 42 historical exhibitions online telling the stories behind some of the major events of the last…

Microsoft headed in for ‘significant shift’ in its business

According to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the software company’s future may see it take a page out of Apple’s book, reports Reuters. In his…

Google Wallet for content: Is it already doomed?

Google has launched an experimental service that allows people to pay for online content using Google Wallet. According to the internet giant, the service…

Samsung adds the iPhone 5 to its patent suit against Apple

Yes, the new iPhone may have only hit the market just over two weeks ago, but that’s long enough for Samsung to analyse the…

Melting bridges and lost cities: 10 of the most bizarre iOS 6 Maps fails

Apple’s decision to build its own maps app was an interesting one: yes, now the company doesn’t need to rely as much on Google,…

Go under the sea with the first ever underwater shots on Google Street View

O.M.G. There is a turtle in Street View! In its continuing quest for awesomeness, Google has gone under the sea. You may have already…

Windows 8: Making Microsoft cool or a desperate throw of the dice?

When Windows 8 goes live in October it’ll represent the culmination of Microsoft’s bid to completely change the way people perceive it. For years…

iPhone 5 opening weekend: 5m sold, factory workers riot

Apple announced that it sold five-million iPhone 5s on its opening weekend in retail stores, signalling its most successful iPhone launch ever. The announcement…

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