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Weekly Round Up Podcast #94: UberEATS expansion, Android Wear updates & more

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. In this week’s edition, Hadlee…

Google, H&M wants your phone to design your next dress

While our favourite garments aren’t as unique as we believe them to be, how we combine these pieces defines our individual style. But can…

Dropbox Paper is for creatives with too many files

Cloud storage service Dropbox is hoping to modify its company description slightly with its latest product. It’s called Dropbox Paper, and it’s effectively the…

Your Android Pattern Lock isn’t secure at all, research suggests

Modern Android devices give users a number of authentication methods. From fingerprints to PIN codes, there are a slew of options to unlock your…

Bidvest’s Snappdrive app will let you rent, drive its cars without keys

South African car rental company Bidvest has announced the launch of its first keyless car rental service, Snappdrive. The app allows users to locate,…

Think twice before grabbing popular photo app Meitu

Meitu, an app which allows users to gussy up their faces in an anime style, has quickly gone viral, but reports suggest that it…

ShowMax now supports Android TV, PS4 app ‘out soon’

Naspers-owned video streaming service ShowMax has today announced that it now fully supports Android TV devices. This support comes courtesy of an updated Android…

80% of new phones ship with Android or iOS [Report]

We’ve written about how large Android and iOS’ combined slice of the smartphone market is before. It doesn’t look like that situation’s about to…

Yahoo! Axis is actually pretty cool

Yahoo!’s newly launched Axis web exploration and search tool isn’t what you’d expect from a company that’s been in corporate turmoil over the past…

It’s official: Chrome is the web’s most popular browser

It’s finally happened. Chrome is now the world’s most popular web browser. Microsoft haters the world over, rejoice. According to figures from online research…

Samsung, Android still winning in shrinking mobile market

Samsung is winning the mobile wars and at the same time helping Android kill in the mobile OS stakes. Thing is all of the…

Smartphones to grow most in emerging markets, Android will dominate

Whatever opportunities there might still be for people wanting to exploit the feature phone market, smartphones are eventually going to win out. Some 488-million…

Digital wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft [Infographic]

I’ve been listening to Charles Arthur every Tuesday on the Guardian pod-cast, Tech weekly, for the past year. Arthur would mention his upcoming book…

Fake Instagram app spreads malware on Android devices

You may recall that Instagram released an Android app earlier this month, and managed to blow past 5-million downloads in the first six days…

Want to be a millionaire? Make a smart phone game [Infographic]

Would you like to make a pile of cash? I rate you go into mobile gaming. While you’re merrily launching flocks of birds at…

iPads still own the tablet market, but is Microsoft onto something big?

Apple’s been dominating the tablet scene ever since the first iPad came out. Given the record sales figures for the new iPad it’s hardly…

Instagram for Android goes past 5m downloads in six days

Twitter may have been abuzz with users claiming they were ready to leave Instagram after it was bought out by Facebook but it might…

Instagram for Android goes past 1M downloads in less than 24 hours

Instagram for Android has been downloaded over one-million times since going live late yesterday. According to the New York Times, the app experienced 2…

Google makes more from Apple than Android? What a crock

UK newspaper The Guardian claims that Google’s Android operating system is far less valuable than Google’s revenues from Apple devices. The story was, of…

Instagram for Android online signups now live

Instagram for Android? Hooray! Visit the signup page now, young gadget-freak and become one of the “first in line” to receive news of its…

TED brings ‘ideas worth spreading’ to Android

This is very cool, if a little long in the making. TED, the organisation behind the renowned conference series of the same name, has…

FBI requests Google help after failing to unlock pimp’s cellphone

Here’s one for the books. A US judge has approved request from the FBI that Google give up information on a pimp’s Android phone…

Android now world’s most popular mobile browser

Android is winning — hang on a moment Apple fans, take a deep breath and let me finish before you start pounding your keyboards…

Sony WF-1000XM6 Lands In South Africa With Smarter Noise Cancelling And Premium Sound

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Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

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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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel