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Weekly Round Up Podcast #81: Samsung’s woes, SA’s media landscape & Netflix’s growth

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

Samsung to buy artificial intelligence startup Viv

This is big. In light of Google Assistant’s move to its new home, Apple’s Siri finding refuge on the iPhone 7 and Microsoft’s Cortana…

Quadrooter: 900m Qualcomm Android phones vulnerable to security flaw

The latest set of smartphone nasties floating around the internet has a pretty cool name, but could very well leave your own phone at…

Weekly Round Up #72: Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Suicide Squad review, Instagram Stories & more

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

Weekly Round #53: Facebook Reactions, Boston Dynamics’ Robot, MWC, Far Cry

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Senior…

Weekly Round Up #50: Alphabet beats Apple, Travelstart’s $40m, Uber’s new logo, smartphone rumours

Welcome to Weekly Roundup, our podcast discussing the latest tech trends, innovation and news from the last few days. This week on BurnCast, Senior…

IDC: people are still buying smartphones in their billions

The rate at which smartphones ship is incredible. And with more and more people joining the list of smartphone owners, the shipment of phones…

Smartphone sales grew by 20 percent in third quarter of 2014

Smartphones have been around for a good few years now, but there’s no sign that their growing popularity is on the wane. In fact,…

Samsung will make fewer smartphone models next year

Samsung executives have confirmed that the company is betting on a more streamlined range of smart devices as it looks to claw back some…

South African consumers are not happy with the quality of their laptops

Research recently released by South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) suggests that South Africans are increasingly dissatisfied with their laptops. The results of the…

3 very important ways technology is being employed to fight Ebola

Ebola has been causing, especially in West Africa, much heartache and has turned into an epidemic. Apart from Nigeria, the only country that appeared…

Samsung expects a poor quarterly profit, smartphones wearing it down

Samsung is expecting its quarterly profits to punch in at 4.1-trillion won (US$3.8-billion) — that’s about 60% down from last year’s 10.2-trillion won forecast….

What did it take for Apple to go from cool to creepy? A single U2 album

With additional commentary by Mich Atagana Along with pretty much all my colleagues in the tech press — and thousands of hardcore Apple fans…

New Samsung Android handsets in Nigeria to feature Celltick Start-based UI

Celltick, creator of the Android lockscreen replacement app Start, has announced a new partnership with Samsung West Africa that will see it develop a…

Samsung sticks with trend of mocking absolutely everyone in new ad

The US ad for the Samsung Galaxy Pro tablet might just be its most smug effort to date. The ad, which sticks people in…

3 factors that will see robotics play a role in the most unlikely places

Robotics are on the rise, and with Google’s recent robotics acquisitions, some techies are hoping that the long-promised era of helpful robots may one…

Have sluggish smartphone sales left Samsung singing the blues?

The results are in and reveal that Samsung had a fairly torrid fourth quarter of 2014. Smartphone competition has kicked in, and in its most…

Samsung owning numbers game as smartphone shipments go past 1bn

Turns out 2013 was a landmark year for smartphones. Not because any particularly amazing models were launched, things were actually pretty slow on that…

Here’s how some of tech’s biggest stocks fared in 2013

2013 was a fascinating year for the technology sector in the stock market. We witnessed Apple’s share price fall from grace in the most…

Michael Bay freaks out at Samsung’s CES 2014 press conference

Proceedings took a strange turn at Samsung’s press conference today, when director Michael Bay abruptly left the stage after a teleprompter apparently failed during…

Samsung: ‘We have UHD TVs too, and they can bend’ [CES2014]

Samsung’s International CES 2014 press conference just wrapped and as expected with didn’t see any trace of a Galaxy Gear 2 or the Samsung…

Smartwatches set to lose out to tablets, fitness bands this festive season [Gartner]

If you’re the kind of person who regularly gets gadgets come Christmas time, then you might be expecting Santa to drop a smartwatch in…

MTN announces MyMTN Home Uncapped internet now offers 5G plans

Spotify Wrapped 2021: How to see your personal music streaming trends for the year

Cape Town tumbles down Global Cities Index

Carry1st partners with PayPal and Chipper Cash to bring payments to Africa

World Mobile launches hybrid network into Zanzibar sky

Oppo launches A54s smartphone in South Africa: price and contract details

HUAWEI nova 9 smartphone and HUAWEI MateView GT monitor launch in South Africa

TCL QLED 4K C725 TV now available in South Africa: price and details

The 2022 new Ford Ranger is a bakkie for the future

Peugeot’s double-cab bakkie lands in South Africa

Land Rover introduces Defender with V8 engine to South Africa: Price and details