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New Blu-ray format brings 4K to your lounge

This week, the Blu-ray Association (BDA) announced specifications for its new media, Ultra HD Blu-ray. Licencing for this format will begin later this year….

Boy has his PlayStation 4 confiscated by dad, goes on mini rampage

Now, if anyone can understand “electronics rage”, it’s us gadget lovers. I’ve defenestrated a fair number of phones courtesy of malfunctioning features in my…

Windows 10 will be Microsoft’s Windows OS swansong, reports suggest

If reports and Microsoft‘s new service-over-product mindset is to be believed, then Windows 10 will be the company’s final iteration of Windows and possibly…

Look out Raspberry Pi: CHIP is the world’s first $9 hackable computer

We here at Gearburn are avid Raspberry Pi and cheap, hackable, small computer stuff fans, so no wonder that the CHIP (or awkwardly dubbed…

Vodacom launches new ‘Use & Get’ prepaid promotion

Vodacom, one of South Africa’s largest cellular providers, has announced that it’s offering a new prepaid promotion dubbed “Use & Get”. Rather refreshingly, the…

Microsoft’s Windows 10 will embrace reworked Android, iOS apps

Prior to the announcement made at BUILD, long term Windows watcher Paul Thurrott suggested that Windows 10 could be coerced into running the likes…

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…

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…

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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

OPPO Reno15 Series Lands In South Africa With Big Cameras And Bigger Battery Ambitions

OPPO Reno15 Series Brings Flagship-Level Hardware Logic to the Mid-Tier in South Africa

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

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