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Anthony Goodman: AG Mobile’s ‘born to look after the customer’

The smartphone business is a cut-throat world, where the small fry are usually chewed up and spat out by the baleen whales of the…

Transformers: Devastation review: certified Michael Bay free

There comes a time in everyone’s life when they just want to sit down and smash some robots with other robots. No? Maybe that’s…

10 unpredicted things every business plan needs

The biggest question for businesses is whether its business plan is doing all it can to handle unforeseen problems. Some businesses may be bold…

Pippa’s top 5 rAge 2015 moments

rAge 2015 has come and gone, and although it’s a slightly shorter wait than usual (if you plan on attending rAge Cape Town as…

Where to buy the iPhone 6S in South Africa and what you’ll pay for it

Apple’s phase two iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus launch is a go, after the company launched the device just over a month ago…

Thought Leader Friday: Sarah Rice, Batstone founder, speaks about purpose in business

Hosted by Creative Spark and Burnmedia, our Thought Leader Friday sessions give our team, clients and other key members of the industry the opportunity…

Weekly Round Up #39: Twitter job cuts, Hydrogen cars, Rage and Pepsi smartphone

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Stuart…

Ware of the Week: Vivaldi browser

In our new weekly series Ware of the Week, we showcase our favourite organised lines of code from the world of mobile and desktop…

How SA consumers are really driving omni-channel retail

South African retailers are increasingly feeling the same, pressing consumer demand for ubiquity that has shaped and developed omni-channel retailing in more mature markets,…

BlackBerry Classic review: expensive nostalgia

Ah BlackBerry. Probably the most misunderstood technology companies on the planet was once a tour de force on the mobile device world stage. Since…

Why it’s important for SA startups to adopt a social impact mindset

South Africa doesn’t have the biggest startup scene in the world. As was recently made clear by CodeX founder Elizabeth Gould’s brilliant article on…

SA ecommmerce stores should really focus on building trust with customers

In a time when malls are taking a pounding from criminals, loadshedding and tightened shopper budgets ecommerce is offered an opportunity to finally step…

Canon EOS 70D review: a DSLR with few faults

The Canon EOS 70D is the younger sister of the 60D geared towards enthusiast users, and it definitely does well in that respect. There…

Weekly Roundup #18: Facebook Messenger, Spartan, Sami Inkinen and the final Bugatti Veyron

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week, Stuart Thomas, Jacques Coetzee,…

‘Bloodborne’ first impressions: you died

“Run away, man!” I shouted at the controller as it was callously ignoring my panicked button mashing. Finding the first monster after a mere…

How Mazda is quietly giving the big automakers a run for their money

Mazda isn’t the biggest car manufacturer out there. In fact, the Hiroshima-based company is likely not even in the top five in its native…

Sami Inkinen: 5 ways ordinary people can do to do extraordinary things

Sami Inkinen is known for a couple of things. Not only did he sell a company he co-founded for US$2.5-billion in February this year,…

WD My Passport Pro 4TB review-in-brief: speedy and stylish

The WD My Passport Pro does what it does well, but weighing up the three P’s (practicality, performance and price) it only shines through…

‘Ori and the Blind Forest’ review: facing fears, finding courage

Every so often rare circumstances come together and give birth to something extraordinary. Be it the alignment of the stars or the direction of…

If cars are no longer status symbols, how do you sell them?

On Monday, 4 June 1897, at 4pm, the first horseless carriage in South Africa made its debut in Brea Park, launching a love affair…

5 lessons you can learn from the omni-channel masters

Try as you might to entice customers to download your app or visit you on the web, people don’t self-identify as online shoppers or…

BurnCast podcast special: tales from SXSW

Our Managing Editor, André-Pierre du Plessis, went to Texas to attend the annual tech, music and design festival, SXSW. While he wrote about the…

‘The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D’ review: a frustrating but rewarding adventure

Some games have dynastic chips on their shoulders. Some are remasters trying to survive in a modern, graphics-intensive gaming world. Majora’s Mask 3D definitely…

The Comic Chaos of Sassy Smart Homes

Optasia’s $375 Million JSE IPO Could Redefine African AI Fintech

The Many Faces of AI in South Africa’s 2025 Tech Moment

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Omoda C5 X review

TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel