The greatest trick Steve Jobs ever pulled was getting us to use his phone as the benchmark for all phones. They make a good benchmark of course: best experience, best industrial design and best ecosystem. Best for developed nations (and the developed...
Blackberry, or officially RIM, has been on a rather downward spiral since the rapid growth of Android and the steady market share of iOS. You have to still consider that they are a good manufacturer and in many ways could actually leap back from the ...
SMSs went out yesterday informing MTN users who had subscribed to NokNok in the past and if you visit the NokNok website it simply says it's shutting the service down at the end of this month.
It's hardly surprising. The product was ill-conceived,...
Nokia is looking to position itself strategically for smartphone growth in SA. It’s signed an agreement with Microsoft to get the Windows operating system onto Nokia handsets and smartphones, like the N8, available on some seriously cheap contracts...
It took the creative genius of an Apple to fulfil the prophecy, but the age of mobility is finally here, and it shows no signs of letting up on innovative surprises or promoting widespread addictive behaviour.
First, the iPhone rekindled the smar...
Android pips it, but only just.
With the new Android software version 2.1 running on local HTC phones, there is no doubt that the iPhone has a true competitor in the market.
I am running a HTC Hero with 2.1 software on it and I’ve never owned...
I subscribe to quite a few tech, news and other blogs, and not a day goes by where I don't get a little more despondent. Mostly because the news is always the same -- company X released feature Y for product Z. Politician A caught in scandal B involv...
By Wogan May
Exciting things have happened in the last few months. Apple's released the iPad, a device (or platform, if you will) that's already beginning to shape consumer demand and expectations. Other vendors are scrambling to catch up, with HP...
Last Monday I finally received the HTC Magic (also called the G2) -- a phone I have long been looking forward to, not so much for the hardware, but for the operating system. This is Google's second official iteration of Android, its open source m...
The annual O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference has just closed in New York and as usual it was a digital-publishing feast. Though I didn't get to go myself, the flood of blogging and tweeting that came from the conference kept me happy...
