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Robin Williams gets his own Apple homepage tribute

Apple has joined the slew of companies paying tribute to Robin Williams following the actor and comedian’s suicide earlier this week. On its homepage,…

Microsoft wants you to creep celebs with its new iPhone app

Whether you like it or not, celebrities are a big thing. People love knowing popular personalities’ every move. To leverage this very creepy human…

I’m a Mac…and I’m a Surface? Microsoft’s new ad reignites an old debate

Cast your minds back a few years, to around 2006, and the start of Apple’s long-running “Get a Mac” campaign. The campaign, which starred…

Turn your GoPro footage into a hyperlapse with this awesome new Microsoft research project

So you’ve bought yourself a GoPro and you’ve taken it down a ski slope, or on that awesome coastal ride, or up that sheer…

Yahoo’s end-to-end encryption tool will combat email snooping

Yahoo is now the second major tech influencer to actively support email privacy. At Black Hat USA, the multifaceted tech giant recently announced to…

Google asks South African kids to dream and draw the country a doodle

We’ve had everything from bacteria and chocolate-covered insects to a functioning Rubik’s Cube — but Google’s not done yet. The search giant is inviting…

Microsoft’s Cortana whips Apple’s Siri in this new Windows Phone ad

Microsoft’s not shy when it comes to tackling its competition head-on — from openly pitting its Surface Pro 3 against the Macbook Air to…

Do all those flashy tech launches work? Yup, just ask Google

Remember Google I/O? No? Let me refresh your memory. At the tech giant’s annual developers conference, it launched not one, but two new products…

Samsung: the Galaxy SI could’ve been better… if it was more like the iPhone

A fair few skeletons have emerged from the latest trial between Samsung and Apple. One of the most rattling revelations to date shows that…

Could a sunflower be key to the Apple, Samsung patent trial?

It’s an incredibly simple, but evocative image. It’s a yellow sunflower with green leaves and it’s the icon for Apple’s Photos App. The image…

Procrastinate with today’s basketball-themed Olympic Google doodle

Another fantastic time-wasting Olympic-themed doodle? Aww Google, you shouldn’t have. After the search giant made up for all those static Olympic doodles by launching…

Which country is winning the gold in Olympic mobile search? [Infographic]

Most of you are probably enjoying the Olympics, but perhaps in a manner quite different from you did for past Olympic Games. The folks…

Google’s hurdle doodle is a return to form

You might recall that we weren’t exactly enamored with Google’s doodle on the opening day of the Olympic Games. It wasn’t bad or anything,…

Google Glass: the examined life

Google’s Glass Project made a spectacular debut last month by skydiving from a helicopter and joining the press on stage while documenting the whole…

Microsoft ditching the name ‘Metro’ for something more commercial

Say what? Apparently Microsoft is about to ditch the name “Metro” for something more commercial reports The Next Web. It seems as the Redmond-based…

Google Wallet now supports more credit and debit cards on more phones

Unless you’ve somehow been avoiding its products, Google probably hosts your email, stores your documents, knows who you interact with (via Google+), customises your…

Get your portrait drawn in the sand by a robot with this Google experiment

Ever wanted to take a photo with your webcam and get it sketched in sand by a robot at a museum in London? Well,…

Windows 8: Fluidity and an uncompromising user experience

Microsoft is pulling out all the stops with Windows 8. For the Redmond-based tech giant, it’s not just another operating system, it’s a complete…

Microsoft’s new Outlook: a home-grown hammer in Hotmail’s coffin

Hotmail’s been the wheezing old collie of the email world for a few years now: we all acknowledge that it doesn’t really serve any…

Goodbye old video chat, hello Google+ hangouts in Gmail

The Google graveyard is getting fuller by the day. The tech giant has been on a bit of a killing spree recently, axing what…

Facebook and Google: what earnings calls can teach us about tech giants

Earnings calls underscore some of the strategies being deployed in the tech industry. Take Zynga’s Q2 earnings for example: announcing that it lost US$22.8-million,…

What 6 members of the Digerati make of Google Fiber

With the launch of Google Fiber, we think it’s safe to say that never before has Kansas City Missouri seemed more of an attractive…

Apple nabs Samsung, LG security provider for $356m

This is interesting. Apple has just forked out US$365-million for security company AuthenTec Inc. In an 8-k filing the company says that it entered…

ASUS and AMD Launch AI-Driven Expert P Series PCs for South African SMBs

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