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PS4, Xbox One price to drop in South Africa come Workers’ Day weekend

Ster-Kinekor, for the first three days of May at least, will be lowering the recommended retail price (RRP) of the Sony PS4 gaming console…

Nvidia GTX 980 Ti coming in May, GTX 980 ‘Metal’ edition to follow

If you’re in the market for a graphics card upgrade, you can look forward to lush summer, thanks to Nvidia (and hopefully AMD fairly…

Android Wear updates finally make using apps as simple as checking the time

Google has rolled out a bunch of features to make your Android smartwatch a bit more hands-off, with a whole new range of gestures…

New Disney acoustic tech allows for power-free iPhone accessories

This is pretty cool. The folks at Disney’s Research labs have figured out a way to control fine functions on an smartphone using acoustics…

Sharp reveals 4K IGZO smartphone screen with 806 pixels per inch

Don’t you dare tell Sharp‘s employees that something’s ludicrous, because sure enough, they will go ahead and do it anyway. What on earth am…

Telkom plans to make gamers poorer with 14% line rental tariff increase

If you’re in South Africa, own a telephone and haven’t heard the news, then brace your wallets because Telkom is joining Vodacom in hiking…

Vodacom VoLTE launches in South Africa with Samsung Galaxy S6

Here’s some pretty big news. Vodacom will be opening its consumer doors to VoLLTE (voice over LTE) in South Africa, a move that will…

Google creates glucose-monitoring contact lenses

Forget smart glasses, Google X research lab just recently announced its smart contact lens project that can help diabetics by monitoring their glucose levels…

Xbox One beats PS4 in near million US December sales

According to new figures released by global market research company NDP, Xbox One was the number one selling console in the US last December,…

Meet Blackphone: secure, encrypted, ‘Watch Dogs’ compatible smartphone

The lovechild of Silent Circle and Geeksphone is called Blackphone — an extremely paranoid smartphone said to be super secure and immune to privacy…

Windows 8.1 Preview ends today, update or suffer restarts every two hours

Running Windows 8.1 Preview and haven’t updated to the final version? Then your computers going to restart every two hours until you do so….

Xbox 360 will still get ‘good games’ says Microsoft

The Xbox One is out, but where does that leave the humble Xbox 360? In an interview with Gameplanet, Microsoft’s Alan Bowman, VP of…

Adobe Photoshop update adds 3D printing

The more commercialised 3D-printing has become over the past few years, the more friendly it’s become. Adobe is without a doubt responsible for the…

Motorola’s budget-friendly Moto G smartphone launches on Google Play

Google has increased its Play range of smartphones by one today by adding the very friendly Moto G. Google Play edition devices run pure…

Horizon iPhone app combats dreaded ‘vertical video syndrome’

Brought to us by Evil Window Dog, Horizon is an iPhone app that helps solve vertical video syndrome (or VVS for short) where too…

Is this Samsung’s Nexus 10? Nope, hoax

Earlier this week leaked images of a Samsung-made Nexus 10, an Android KitKat tablet based on the much-loved Nexus 7, appeared on the internet….

Samsung Galaxy S5 gets specced out with metal chassis, impressive display

Samsung’s upcoming flagship, the Galaxy S5, was announced at CES last week and is to be expected this year in April together with a…

Nokia’s colourful Android smartphone ‘Normandy’ leaked, shows dual-SIM

Nokia’s rumoured Android smartphone has been spotted a few times around the web recently showing the colour range and some other noteworthy tidbits. The…

Sony announces Xperia T2 Ultra, its first selfie-loving emerging market phablet

This is Sony’s Xperia T2 Ultra, a six-inch Android smartphone that not only looks like a premium device, but has been made specifically for…

LiFi beats Wi-Fi with 1GB wireless speeds over pulsing LEDs

LiFi is like Wi-Fi but instead of a router and receiver communicating via air waves, they do so using light. A French company called…

Huawei Tron, the Mac Pro-looking Android console [CES2014]

In an effort to compete with the growing popularity of mini consoles (Gamestick, Ouya, Onlive), Huawei has unveiled a new mini gaming console called…

Neptune Pine: smartwatch or smartphone? [CES2014]

Is it all about wearables this year at CES 2014? And so, down at the so-called Wrist Revolution section at CES, the Neptune Pine smartwatch shows its…

Super slim, crazy specced Aorus X7 gaming laptop announced [CES2014]

Aorus has announced its first product at CES this year, and it’s going all out. The high-end X7 gaming laptop not only hosts damn…

Huawei’s All-Optical smart-home showcase unleashes a new era of home connectivity in Africa

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