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What did WWDC tell us about the future of Apple?

The popular Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) began this year on June 8. This annual event enables Apple to inform developers about new products…

Google takes another look at Glass

Starting by connecting scuba goggles to a computer, Google Glass soon become the technological baby of the wearable world. Although the glasses took a…

3 tips for keeping Microsoft SharePoint relevant in the era of the cloud

Clunky spreadsheets. Cluttered network drives. Unmanageable mailboxes. Issues that many businesses have in common. It’s also important to point out that email, once seen…

Weekly Round Up #25: Apple special, is Apple innovating or stealing from others?

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

What does Apple News mean for SA publishers?

Apple introduced its latest app, Apple News on Monday 8 June 2015, in California, however it will officially launch with iOS 9 later this…

Google’s Project Soli is an innovation from the distant future brought to the present

Google’s ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects) department has been working on something very special. Called Project Soli, the technology could completely change how we…

All the facts, figures you need to know about Apple’s WWDC 2015

Apart from WWDC 2015 being longer than the Avengers 2 movie, over a 1 000 Apple engineers from 70 countries attended the Cupertino tech…

Israel claims Google’s recognition of Palestine undermines peace efforts

Israeli authorities have lodged a request urging Google to reconsider its decision to list Palestine among its selection of localised search pages. By listing…

Outlook.com hits 400 million accounts as Microsoft officially kills off Hotmail

Four hundred million. Four. Hundred. Million. That’s how many active email accounts Microsoft has amassed over on Outlook.com. Really. According to Outlook.com’s group program…

Check out the preview for Windows 8 Skype video messages

Microsoft today announced the preview release of Skype video messaging for Windows 8, which means that anyone using the Metro side of the OS…

Google Street View: good for directions, great for catching crooks

Google Maps capture all sorts of things — like people getting on with their daily lives blissfully unaware of the fact that something is…

Google Glass’ real promise is among the elderly

Google Glass has a promising future — although not in the markets that Google thinks it’s targeting: urban early-tech adopters — they are a…

Microsoft meshes Skype into the heart of Outlook.com

Look out Gmail, Outlook.com just got a little more interesting. Microsoft has announced that it’s baking Skype into the email service. The service is…

Google Now arrives on iOS

It’s official: Google Now is available on iOS. The news comes after the internet giant effectively let the cat out of the bag with…

Less than a year after the acquisition, Google kills off the Meebo bar

A moment of silence, please. The Google graveyard has just gained another resident. Ok, so technically it’s not a Gproduct, but it was the…

Governments now ask Google to remove more content than ever before

Wondering how many complaints from governments Google has to deal with on a daily basis? Well, if its latest transparency report is any indication,…

Google offers to advertise for its rivals in a bid to avoid antitrust concerns

After grabbing some 90% of the search market in Europe, you’d think the last thing Google would offer to do is promote the services…

Google Glass: the tech’s desirable but it might not be socially acceptable

I’m not a fan of Google Glass because I am absolutely certain it won’t be socially acceptable to be video or audio recording people…

6 predictions for the future of tech from Google exec Eric Schmidt

As the executive chairman of one of the biggest tech companies on the planet, Eric Schmidt seems well-placed to do some crystal ball gazing….

Apple’s profit drop: post PC inevitability or sign of iSaturation?

Apple’s Q2 results contain something few would have thought likely a year ago: the company’s first profit drop in a decade. Make no mistake,…

Hedge fund grabs $2 billion stake in Microsoft

A hedge fund executive has revealed that his company owns a US$2-billion stake in Microsoft and that he reckons other investors don’t appreciate the…

Read the transcript of Julian Assange’s ‘secret meeting’ with Google’s chairman

It seems in the process of doing research for his upcoming book, Google chairperson Eric Schmidt took at trip to the UK to have…

Google’s new One Today app brings social charity to the crowd

Crowdfunding charities has never been this fun. By using transparency and social elements, Google’s new One Today app tries to create a novel way…

Lenovo at MWC 2025: AI-Powered Laptops, Sustainable Concepts, and a Glimpse into the Future

Smart Tech: Turning the Tide on South Africa’s Water Crisis

Celebrating Innovation: Redmi Note 14 Post-Launch Event in South Africa

Verto Launches Global Business Award to Fuel African Startup Expansion

GITEX Africa: Shaping the Future of Tech and Positioning Africa as a Global Powerhous

Gozem Secures $30M Series B to Fuel Super App Expansion Across Francophone Africa

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Lucid CEO becomes strategic advisor

Golf 8.5 update with lots of Life

Tariffs trump US new car affordability needs