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Weekly Round Up Podcast #77: Facebook celebrates, Ventureburn awards & PS4 Pro launches
By Staff Reporter on 9 September, 2016
Welcome to Weekly Round Up, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation, and news from the last few days. This week, Hadlee Simons plays host to Matthew Alexander, Graham van de Made and Andy Walker. We're all about Apple, Facebook and entrepreneurship this week, with some Sony dolloped on the side We tackle some interesting topics this week, including Facebook News Feed's latest milestone and the launch and imminent South African arrival of the LG V20. We also touch on Ventureburn's latest Digital All Stars article, celebrating entrepreneurship in South Africa, and finally, we spend the latter chunk of the show...
Quadrooter: 900m Qualcomm Android phones vulnerable to security flaw
By Andy Walker: Editor on 8 August, 2016
The latest set of smartphone nasties floating around the internet has a pretty cool name, but could very well leave your own phone at risk. Dubbed Quadrooter, the set of four flaws affect all Qualcomm-powered smartphones running Android, which means around 65% of the LTE smartphone market, or 900-million smartphones in total. According to CheckPoiunt, the vulnerabilities could leave users' devices rooted, and open to remote access. These vulnerabilities can be targeted through the installation of a malicious app. But only one vulnerability needs to be exploited. In that event, an "attacker can trigger privilege escalations for the purpose of...
Weekly Round Up #50: Alphabet beats Apple, Travelstart’s $40m, Uber’s new logo, smartphone rumours
By Staff Reporter on 5 February, 2016
Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Senior Reporter Stuart Thomas talks to Gearburn Editor Andy Walker and Reporter Jacques Coetzee. The team talks about Alphabet becoming the most valuable company in the world, Travelstart raising a cool US$40-million from Amadeus Capital Partners and MTN, Uber's new rather bizarre looking logo and the new round of rumours when it comes to smartphones. The team speaks about what they are watching, reading and listening to. And the Tweet of the week has something to do with South...

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LG G4 Beat review: the G4’s expensive, underachieving sibling
By Andy Walker: Editor on 8 October, 2015
It’s easy to punt a flagship smartphone to the masses. Give it a fast processor, cram it with an oversized camera sensor and huge screen and lastly, make sure it has heaps of sex appeal. But mid range devices are a little more tricky than that. Manufacturers can launch smaller phones with completely different names that have nothing to do with the flagships at all, or they can reproduce the flagship but shrink practically everything down. This is what LG has largely done with the Beat range. But is this such a bad thing?
LG G4 launches with leather back, curved 5.5-inch screen
By Andy Walker: Editor on 29 April, 2015
LG hasn’t done much to quell the stream of leaks spilling from the internet in the weeks leading up to the LG G4 launch, but the phone is finally official, and features practically everything leaks have covered. Hosting simultaneous events in New York, London, Paris, Istanbul, Singapore and Seoul (strange grouping of time zones), the company launched its new figurehead smartphone a few weeks after the Samsung Galaxy S6 was outed at MWC 2015, a just days since the subdued Sony Xperia Z4 announcement.var vglnk={key:"cc324b6567a9637aa0ff15bc9564b2a5"};!function(e,a){var t=e.createElement(a);t.type="text/javascript",t.async=!0,t.src="//cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js";var n=e.getElementsByTagName(a);n.parentNode.insertBefore(t,n)}(document,"script");
LG’s annual financial report reveals $475 million profit
By Myolisi Sikupela: Staff Reporter on 29 January, 2015
LG Electronics has posted its of 2014 financial results and they look a lot better than they have for a while. The South Korean giant posted a US$475-million profit after shipping a total of 59.1-million smartphones, a 24% increase on its previous year. Its best quarter in 2014 was the third quarter in which LG shipped a record 16.8-million smartphones. In the final quarter however, LG had a drop and only shipped 15.5-million. LG’s net profit of US$474.81 million is a 125% improvement on last year's results. A huge contributor to LG’s good performance is its mobile business which helped...
3 very important ways technology is being employed to fight Ebola
By Myolisi Sikupela: Staff Reporter on 28 October, 2014
Ebola has been causing, especially in West Africa, much heartache and has turned into an epidemic. Apart from Nigeria, the only country that appeared to have successfully dealt with the deadly disease, other countries seem to be struggling and the amounts of people dying are rising at an alarming rate. Up until 22 October 2014, according to World Health Organisation, about 9915 cases had been reported with 5481 laboratory confirmed cases and about 4555 total deaths. Since the epidemic first came to the world's attention, technology has been finding ways to either combat or manipulate the chaos it...

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Galaxy Round is most ‘naturally curved’ smartphone… says Samsung
By Staff Reporter on 28 October, 2013
There it is! Samsung just released an ad of the so-called Samsung Galaxy Round -- a smartphone that has a curved display. This comes right after LG just released the LG G Flex smartphone earlier today. Both South Korean tech giants, Samsung and LG, are in a race to bring the world's first and best curved smartphone. Both are, however, going about it differently. Samsung is currently the lead producer of smartphones and tablets worldwide and has almost covered every screen size physically possible so it's just natural for the company to start bending its screens. Or is it? Are...
The LG Optimus 4X HD, world’s first quad-core smartphone
By Steven Norris on 23 February, 2012
Two cores, boring. Three cores, passé. Four cores, now we’re talking. The Optimus 4X HD, a 4.7-inch monster of a phone boasts an impressive 1.5Ghz quad-core Tegra 3 CPU. Too much, too soon? LG doesn't think so. The LG Optimus 4X HD is one of the billions of new smartphones which will be shown off at the MWC 2012 and while it may not be the sexiest, it damn well should be the...
Meanwhile, in Korea… LG Optimus Vu with 5-inch, 4:3 display
By Martin Carstens on 8 February, 2012
With everyone running Android on 16:9 aspect ratio hardware these days, it’s really hard for consumer electronics companies to create devices that grab our attention. LG’s upcoming 5-inch 4:3 display LG Optimus Vu has my attention. The Vu is different, yes, but I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or not. The device is yet to launch, but already people’s initial reactions seem to be mixed. Is it a big phone or...
Review: LG Flatron IPS 236V
By Stuart Thomas on 10 October, 2011
Sleek, black curved edges melding into a clear Perspex strip designed to house a single light. A bespoke amber arm, sitting off-centre, joins the ensemble to a raised circular base. No, it’s not some concept piece from a high-profile design house. It’s the LG Flatron IPS 236V. So, you may be thinking, it looks pretty but how does it work as a monitor? The short, simple answer: Brilliantly. The longer, slightly more complicated...
LG, Philips and Sharp to build interoperable TV apps
By Staff Reporter on 2 September, 2011
LG Electronics has tied up with Dutch giant Philips and Japan's Sharp to co-operate on the production of interoperable applications for internet-powered televisions. The glaring omission in this consortium are the two TV leaders, Sony and Samsung. The three TV vendors will jointly create software development kits, which will be distributed to third-party developers to write TV applications, said LG. It is the first such collaboration in the smart TV sector, LG said, adding the three would complete software development kits by the end of this year. Read more on Gearburn.com var vglnk={key:"cc324b6567a9637aa0ff15bc9564b2a5"};!function(e,a){var t=e.createElement(a);t.type="text/javascript",t.async=!0,t.src="//cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js";var n=e.getElementsByTagName(a);n.parentNode.insertBefore(t,n)}(document,"script");
Video Review: LG Optimus Black
By Staff Reporter on 26 August, 2011
Black and blocky – you’re not going to get a much bigger screen this side of a tablet, and it’s got some pretty serious innards to power its Androidy goodness. Gearburn weighs up the iffy build quality against the sheer value for money. For more see Gearburn.comvar vglnk={key:"cc324b6567a9637aa0ff15bc9564b2a5"};!function(e,a){var t=e.createElement(a);t.type="text/javascript",t.async=!0,t.src="//cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js";var n=e.getElementsByTagName(a);n.parentNode.insertBefore(t,n)}(document,"script");
LG’s Optimus prime-time smartphone
By Roger Hislop on 25 July, 2011
Review: LG P970 Optimus Black. It’s big and it’s black. And really skinny. The obvious conclusion is that LG is going head to head with iPhone with the P970 Optimus Black by eschewing any exterior adornment. LG also clearly decided that it was going to go with one big stick: size counts. The display is BIG and BRIGHT. Instead of the iPhone’s relatively cramped 3.5”, you get a giant 4” slab of pixelly action. But LG was also building to a lower price-point, so you get 480×800 pixels but only 233 pixels per inch, while the iPhone’s 960×640 gives you...
Put a moviehouse in your pocket
By Roger Hislop on 6 June, 2011
The good news is that this little LG HS200G micro-projector will last you 20 years if you use it for four hours per day. The bad news is – well, there’s no real bad news, it’s great. Just some reality checking to avoid disappointment.It’s not going to blow you away with awesome image quality and brightness. It is going to impress you with its entirely decent image quality and brightness, considering you’ll...