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Crime-drama Sneaky Pete kicks off Amazon’s 2017 Originals roster

We’re pretty much spoilt for choice when it comes to series this year. Along with Netflix’s strong lineup and ShowMax’s South African content, newcomer…

Amazon Prime Video: originals to watch in SA?

Let’s be honest for a second… Amazon knows that many people are only tuning into Prime Video for The Grand Tour. After all, the…

Amazon Prime Video is officially in South Africa

The Amazon Prime Video streaming service has officially gone global, launching in South Africa as well. “Amazon today announced that Amazon Prime Video is…

Grand Tour is most pirated show of all time – report

Amazon’s The Grand Tour, featuring the Top Gear trio, is the most pirated show of all time, surpassing Game of Thrones, according to a…

Weekly Round Up Podcast #88: Nintendo Switch, Fitbit, Amazon Go & more

Welcome to Weekly Round Up, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation, and news from the last few days. This week, Hadlee Simons…

Amazon Go: a grocery store with no checkout lines

Who says that brick and mortar stores have to make way for online storefronts? Certainly not Amazon, as the company recently launched its Amazon…

Netflix, Amazon are outspending HBO on TV programming

A new report finds that Netflix and Amazon are outspending several big traditional networks when it comes to TV programming. According to the World TV…

Take my phone, take my cash: why Amazon’s Fire Phone gamble could pay off

Amazon has, at last, launched a smartphone. It’s called the Fire Phone and — apart from the badass name and a key feature (called…

Yahoo collapses, Firefox drops Java and Instagram kills Snapchat: #StuffToKnow

While the pope is the person of the year, Yahoo Mail is the undoubted failure of the week. Firefox meanwhile has decided to block…

Amazon Prime Air: just another pipe dream or technological breakthrough?

On 1 December, Jeff Bezos revealed on CBS’ 60 Minutes that Amazon is working on the creation of a new drone delivery system. The…

Proper gov’t regulation will fix NSA spying & protect data [#LeWeb]

“We will remember June 2013 for a very long time”, Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Hightail, told the LeWeb audience in Paris, France during a…

4 massive trends and events that completely changed the face of tech in 2013

In 2013, big companies in the cloud space faced downtime challenges, companies in the social media space were valued at costs seemingly much higher…

Mandela mourned, NSA knows where you are and Amazon’s drones: #StuffToKnow this week

Madiba passes and leaves behind a better world than he came in to, but the NSA is tracking your every move, and I do…

Amazon promises a future filled with ‘octocopter’ drone deliveries

Hate waiting for couriers and having to make sure you’re at home or in the office at a specified time? Well in the near…

Amazon pokes fun at Apple, Jony Ive in its new Kindle Fire HDX ad

Used to a nice soothing voice with a British accent telling you why the latest iDevice is oh so ‘magical’? You’ve probably been watching…

How Google clamps down on Android’s open-source: the key is Google apps

Google is often seen as the good guy of the big corporations operating in the world today. Its informal motto is “Don’t be evil”…

Global device market on the up thanks to cheaper tablets, smartphones

The global tech giants will be pleased to hear this. We’re still buying devices in their billions, with little sign of a slowdown in…

Ireland re-examines its status as tech tax haven

Over the past few years Ireland’s managed to attract serious investment from international companies, especially in the tech sector, thanks to its relaxed tax…

BlackBerry sold, Google’s birthday and Youtube kills trolls: #StuffToKnow this week

The once ubiquitous smartphone BlackBerry has fallen into the abyss and sold out. Google is celebrating its 15th birthday in hobbit style by giving…

Amazon launches ‘MayDay’: a Skype-like tech support for Kindle

Amazon may have launched new Kindle versions but it seems the most exciting part of the launch is cool new feature called MayDay. The…

Could Jeff Bezos be a new, less uptight, Steve Jobs?

Jeff Bezos is by far the most interesting of the tech industry CEOs. He’s the new “Steve Jobs” in terms of being able to…

Amazon meets with Indian officials in bid to relax strict ecommerce laws

Representatives from Amazon have met with Indian officials in a bid to get them to relax strict laws which stop foreign ecommerce companies entering…

Apple reclaims the term ‘app store’, this time from Amazon

Apple seems to think that it can claim a chunk of the English language as its own: specifically, the name for its “pioneering” App…

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