Samsung made it clear at the launch of its two new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 edge, on Sunday evening that it’s taking direct aim at Apple as it fights to make up ground
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Near-field communication has been touted as the next big thing for years. It promises tap-and-go transactions that will revolutionise mobile payments. With Apple Pay taking centre stage, many are proclaiming 2015 the year that NFC mobile payments
Apple will spend €1,7bn (about R22,6bn) on two new data centres in Europe that will be powered entirely from renewable energy sources. The data centres – in Ireland and Denmark – will serve Apple customers across Europe, and presumably
One of the most exciting developments in hardware in the last five years has just been announced … by Facebook. No, it’s not yet another smartphone or any kind of personal electronic gadget. It’s something much more important, something with the potential to
Every year, Apple’s iMac line-up gets slightly faster processors, better graphics cards, faster RAM and more storage space. And although the 2013 iMac was one of the first Apple computers to incorporate the new Broadwell micro-architecture, it still wasn’t a
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Taiwan’s HTC was one of the first smartphone manufacturers to discover that, in order to sell huge volumes of smartphones, you simply have to equip them with an impressive front-facing camera. If you think of it, that actually
Staggering. That’s the word Apple CEO Tim Cook used in the company’s first-quarter conference call with analysts this week to describe demand for its new smartphone models, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Staggering is also
Checking social networks is a morning ritual for many, and when that routine is disrupted — as it was this week when Facebook’s servers went down — its absence can come as a surprise. But what also becomes apparent is that when the world’s most popular social
How did everyone get their estimates on Apple so wrong? So very, very wrong? The company totally blew away any expectations that the Street had for the last quarter, crushing them. On Tuesday evening