Samsung’s newest mobile tech innovation could make the need to slip a MicroSD card in your phone to boost the internal memory a thing of the past. It’s ready to begin production of a new universal flash storage chip with 1TB — yes, one terabyte — of space inside. This is twice the maximum…
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MTN South Africa spent more than R400 million ($27.7 million) last year on investments in battery backup systems and generators. Despite the spend, its mobile sites continue to face significant threats, due to Eskom’s ongoing stage three and stage four load shedding. Excluding the amount spent on new batteries for…
MySpace, the pioneering but faded website that helped kick off the social-media era during the dot-com boom, says all the music uploaded to the platform between 2003 and 2015 is, well, history. “As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than…
It looks like the four-figure price tag is here to stay when it comes to new iPhones from Apple. The $1,000 price tag that shocked us in late 2017 when Apple unveiled the iPhone X became practically normal a year later after Samsung and Huawei followed suit. Now, foldable phones like the Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X and others…
Tech giant Google is getting into gaming in a big way with a direct challenge to the giants of console and PC gaming. It’s called Stadia. Former Sony and Xbox executive and current Google gaming boss Phil Harrison detailed the platform today at an event in San Francisco during the…
ICASA announced that Kwese has successfully applied for a free-to-air television broadcasting licence. This means the company will be allowed to launch free-to-air TV services, like those operated by the SABC and Etv, in South Africa. ICASA previously issued an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for free-to-air TV licences in 2014,…
This LG G8 release date guide will tell you everything you need to know about LG’s latest phone. Following months of leaks and rumors, LG officially announced the new LG G8 and upcoming V50. Here are all the release date and pre-order details, pricing, shipping information and more for potential buyers. On…
The price ceiling on phones just keeps getting higher.
In December, Tumblr had an estimated 520 million visits, which dropped to 436 million in January, and then 369 million in February, according to SimilarWeb’s data.
In light of a devastating tropical storm that has swept away bridges and homes in eastern Zimbabwe, Econet Wireless has also come on board to assist those affected by providing an EcoCash biller code 320041 merely for donations. And in case of emergencies one could simply dial 112 or 111. Another option that you can…
Every version of the Pixel to date has had a single rear camera. However, it is rumored that the next Pixel XL model will get two and the fingerprint reader might be in the display.
Just last month, Samsung announced the Galaxy S10 but it looks like the company isn’t done yet. Samsung is not taking breaks in releasing new phones to the market coming up with new Galaxy Note X. If you see last month Samsung announced Galaxy s10 but it look like Samsung is not…
Following in its footsteps from last year, Huawei is holding an event on March 26 where we’re expecting to see the entire P30 series.
For the past two weeks, Qualcomm and Apple have battled in a San Diego courtroom over some of the basic technology at the heart of your smartphone. On Friday, a jury said Apple infringed on all three of the patents in question. The legal battle covers Qualcomm technology the chipmaker says Apple used without…
Only 23 Android antivirus apps had a 100 percent detection rate with no false positives. Some even labeled themselves as viruses.
Experts are concerned that two recent crashes are related.
Gaming has been becoming increasingly more mainstream through the years, growing alongside the growth social media has seen as well. With so many different companies diving head first into video games, it shouldn’t really be a shock that reports are stating that Snapchat will be the latest to join this market with…
The Motorola Razr was one of the most popular phones of its day. And it’s coming back in 2019 with a foldable screen.
The shooter in at least one of the two mosque attacks in New Zealand on Friday used social media to stream his deadly rampage live. Shortly after, tech giants scrambled to remove his accounts, but versions of the video remained on some sites hours after the shootings, which killed at least 49…
The Zimbabwe Information and Communication Technology (ZICT), a division of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers, has been leading from the front in the growth of ICT and responsible internet use in Zimbabwe. Chairman of the Zimbabwe Information and Communication Technology, Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi reiterated that they have always supported…