The world is growing increasingly sceptical of the stuttering revolution of the Internet of things. The latest round of doubt has been ignited by Alphabet’s Nest’s decision to shut down any further support for its recently purchased Revolv smart home hub. The hub
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Ronald Wayne. Never heard of him, right? Most people haven’t. Yet he one of the triumvirate who co-founded Apple, alongside the two Steves – Jobs and Wozniak. As Apple, today the world’s most valuable company by market capitalisation, celebrates the 40th
Apple is looking really silly at the moment, right? After months of refusing to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of a suspected criminal, and calling those requests “a slippery slope” and “unconstitutional”, all it took was a week with some Israeli hackers-for-hire
In the latest episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about Apple’s new 4-inch iPhone and the new iPad Pro. Also this week, they talk about Microsoft’s Build conference, which took place in
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The FBI has succeeded in hacking into an iPhone that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook without Apple’s help. As a consequence, the bureau has dropped its legal case in which it was trying to force Apple to do what has now been done
Korean electronics giant Samsung has the top-selling smartphone and tablet brand in South Africa, according to international researchers. Samsung dominated South African smartphone sales in the last three months of 2015 with a
The launch this week of a smaller iPhone and a new iPad “underlines the extent to which Apple has lost the innovative edge”, according to a senior technology analyst. The new 4-inch iPhone SE, in particular, showed that Apple had lost the innovative
Apple is hoping dynamite comes in small packages. Its new iPhone, unveiled on Monday, goes back to the smaller form factor used in the iPhone 5s and earlier smartphones with a screen size of just
Offbeat British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen is promoting his new movie by mimicking Apple chief design officer Jony Ive and cocking a snook at Apple keynote addresses. Cohen uses the YouTube video to introduce his latest