MTN South Africa has once again emerged as the country’s top-performing mobile network, securing the highest score in the Q2 2025 MyBroadband Network Quality…
Tablets, smart gadgets, balls, blocks and cars rule at CES
Slick touchscreen tablet computers and smarter devices for the home and the car took centre stage as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wrapped up…
Trillion-dollar forecast for gadget sales
Global gadget sales may top one trillion dollars this year for the first time ever. Organisers at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) in Las…
‘LePad’: The combined laptop and tablet
Chinese computer colossus Lenovo has unveiled an IdeaPad computer that serves as a laptop for work tasks then converts to a touch-screen tablet for…
Microsoft sold 8m Kinects in first two months
Microsoft sold more than eight million gesture-sensing Kinect controllers for Xbox 360 game consoles in just two months, says the company’s chief executive Steve…
1.5-million Windows 7 Phones sold in first six weeks
Microsoft has released its first sales figures for new Windows Phone 7 smartphones, saying more than 1.5 million of the handsets were sold by…
Apple to launch ‘Mac App Store’ on January 6
Apple is planning a January 6 opening for an online shop stocked with software applications that add entertaining or functional features to the firm’s…
Gadget fetish of 2010: It’s all about the tablet
When it came to gadget fetishes of 2010, it was all about tablet computing. Yearning for a device that was bigger than a smartphone…
Can India produce the world’s cheapest tablet?
The Indian government won headlines around the world when it unveiled a prototype $US35 tablet computer in July, but questions are now growing over…
Google unveils Nexus S
Google has unveiled its second branded smartphone, the “Nexus S“, made by South Korea’s Samsung. Google said the Nexus S, which comes nearly a…
Tablet computers take a bite out of PC sales
Worldwide personal computer sales are on track to set a new record this year but tablets like Apple’s iPad are taking a bite out…
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