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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…

New Amnesty International report links Apple, Microsoft, Samsung to child labour in mines in DRC, Africa

Ever wondered how your smartphone is assembled and where all the minerals that make up its tiny component pieces come from? Not many people…

Android triumphs in the US for June quarter, assisted by Samsung S6

The race between Apple and Android continues and has been going on for a long time and still not a clear winner. This quarter…

Chromebook sales will reach 7.3m units in 2015, says Gartner

Chromebooks might not be widely popular as yet but it appears that they are starting to claim an increasingly large portion of the market….

China sees its first smartphone shipment decrease in six years

According to International Data Corporation (IDC), smartphone shipments in the last quarter decreased for the first time in six years in China, one of…

Samsung reclaims throne from Apple, ships 83.2m units in Q1 2015

Samsung might have posted less than impressive financial results for its first quarter but it would appear that it’s not all gloom for the…

Apple beats Samsung in Korea with customer satisfaction

Apple has started winning the hearts and minds of customers on Samsung’s home turf. The Cupertino-based giant is known for its high customer ratings…

Want proof that Google’s falling foul of its own success? Look at the Galaxy S4

Let’s make a mobile OS that will rival Apple’s iOS, and let’s give it away for free. Clever thinking by Google, at the time….

Samsung to roll out mobile health centres across Africa

Samsung recently launched its solar powered health centre model in Cape Town, marking the start of what it says will be a large-scale medical…

Samsung to give SA users free Wi-Fi for a year

If you had any doubts as to Samsung’s desire to stay top of the smartphone pile, check this out. The South Korean electronics giant…

Samsung ordered to remunerate former employee for his patents

Samsung’s woes never seem to end. In another form of patent “war”, the Seoul Central District court has ruled that the South Korean electronics…

Samsung says it’s not using child labour following extensive audit

Korean tech behemoth Samsung Electronics says that none of the 105 manufacturers of its products and components employ child labour. This comes after extensive…

Apple vs Samsung round #234 648… oh we’ve stopped counting

The iPad mini is set to become the latest cast member in ongoing soap opera lawsuit between Apple and Samsung. Samsung has swung back…

Samsung says it won’t follow in HTC’s footsteps and settle with Apple

It seems that the Apple vs Samsung battle is set continue full steam ahead in the future. After the announcement over the weekend that…

Samsung screws Apple, bumps up the price of processors

In every iPhone, iPod and iPad you will find a Samsung processor. Yes even though the two tech giant are battling it out in…

Samsung’s solar-powered classroom laden with gadget swag is amazing

“One word: Wow!,” exclaims a student in a promotional video showing learners’ reactions to Samsung’s Solar Powered Internet School. For a group of students…

Galaxy S III ads: ‘bumping’ with NFC for more than just file sharing… wink wink

Samsung has given its latest adverts for the Galaxy S III a slight sexual twist, because as we all know, sex sells. Near Field…

Apple vs Samsung (again): let the nitpicking begin

Apple’s “rubber band” scrolling patents are invalid. So says the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in a preliminary ruling in the ongoing patent…

Samsung denies shortchanging Apple on LCD panels

In the already strenuous relationship between Apple and Samsung, the Korea Times reports that the Asian smartphone maker will be stopping its shipments of…

What the Samsapple trial means for innovation and progress

I’d just like to say upfront that the Apple vs. Samsung circus currently taking place in the San Jose, California federal courthouse is absurd….

Samsung: the Galaxy SI could’ve been better… if it was more like the iPhone

A fair few skeletons have emerged from the latest trial between Samsung and Apple. One of the most rattling revelations to date shows that…

Apple ordered to say that Samsung didn’t copy the iPad

Someone needs to give the judge in Apple and Samsung’s UK patent case an award for all the entertainment he’s given the tech press….

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