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Android 4.4 preview: KitKat to calmly and quietly change the world

Google’s an odd duck. A very rich duck but an odd one at that. For months we deal with leaked screenshots and rumours, only…

Apple iPad Air vs. Microsoft Surface 2: battle of the bulge

Apple and Microsoft are renowned for being rivals in the personal computer realm and as both companies introduce new products to the market, the…

Android 4.4 KitKat detailed: a smart, wafery unified OS

Kit Kat is only a “0.1″ update, but it seems to bring us a world of new features and wafery goodness. While Google unveiled…

6 creepy but cool games for iOS and Android

Flesh-eating walking dead, Cthulhu, creepy ghosts and annoying demons: that’s how we roll on Halloween. We’ve rounded up some of the must-have mobile games…

6 sequels to ‘Assassin’s Creed’ we’d love to see

Pirates. Who’d have thought that dodgy blokes with wooden legs and eye-patches could create such an enthralling installment of the Assassins Creed series (89%…

Hear all about it: 3 of Android’s best newsreaders

When it comes to news reading apps, there’s more choice in the Play Store than I could ever need. I also have to admit…

Batman: Arkham Origins review – the dull knight rises

If you’re a fan of the previous Batman games, prepare for disappointment. Batman: Arkham Origins shines during many of its story missions, but fails…

Logitech Wireless Touchpad: reinventing the wheel

Who ever thought that turning a mouse on its belly and rubbing its little rubber nubbin would be preferable to standard mouse control? The…

Meanwhile, in Korea… LG Optimus Vu with 5-inch, 4:3 display

With everyone running Android on 16:9 aspect ratio hardware these days, it’s really hard for consumer electronics companies to create devices that grab our…

BlackBerrys brutally dropped, bent and submerged

This article is for both the BlackBerry haters and lovers out there. The Hardware Support Lab at RIM posted three videos giving some insight…

Gearburn’s Pick: Best RPG’s for the iPhone, iPad

Games on the iPhone and iPad are challenging traditional handheld gaming systems such as the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita. One of the reasons…

App of the Week: Puzzlejuice

This week I take a look at Puzzlejuice, a brand new puzzle game for iOS that will, as the developers say, punch your brain…

ADzero – The bamboo unibody Android smartphone

If you’re like me, you’re tired of your phones sinking. Kieron-Scott Woodhouse’s unique bamboo smartphone designs are something else. In an attempt to break…

Headphones of the future won’t care if you mix up left and right

The story about these headphones reminds me a lot of the urban legend about the space pen, but you know how you sometimes put the…

5 Great puzzlers for iOS

Touch technology has given new life to the puzzler. Phones and tablets afford these games a crisp resolution that puts Mario to shame, great…

Windows 8 phone, codenamed: ‘Apollo’ detailed

We loved the last range of Windows phones from the ever-hopeful Nokia, namely the Lumia range. Windows 8 phones though, are hotter than the…

Hands-on with Nokia’s Lumia 710 and scorching Lumia 800

At a recent launch event in South Africa, we got some hands-on time with Nokia’s new Lumia 710 and 800 handsets. Read on for…

BlackBerry reveals new smartphone, the ‘London’

London’s calling. From the leaked slideshow of the BlackBerry Roadmap of 2012 comes the revelation of the anticipated BlackBerry “London”. November 2011 saw the…

Review: Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro — unforgettable it ain’t

When I first got my hands on the Xperia Pro, I thought I was going to be pondering the merits of a slide-out keyboard…

Rock out with Windows 95 on the HTC Evo 3D

It was big news that Windows 8 was going to run on ARM, but probably not if you were a member of one particular…

The Way-C: A Congo-born, $300 tablet

Tablets for emerging markets seem to be all the rage. India started the trend with its Akash tablet, and now the Republic of Congo has its…

App of the week: Phraseology

This week I take a look at Phraseology, a fully featured word processor for iPad that I have recently switched to for all my…

Wifis.org – the Wi-Fi social network

Founded late last year in Berlin, Wifis.org aims to help neighbours get in touch. The free service connects people through a unique URL that…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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How AI is Rewriting Urban Planning in Developing Regions

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Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Jaguar rebranding creative is crazy – good?

German luxury cars require a rethink for China

Trump wins – Tesla goes beyond $1 Trillion