MTN looks likely to be the first mobile operator in SA to be able to take advantage of the advanced wireless broadband functionality built into the latest iPhone from Apple. The US company on Wednesday said the iPhone 5 supports next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) wireless broadband networks offering
It’s been one of the most hyped products in the history of the consumer electronics industry. Finally, after months after feverish speculation, Apple has taken the wraps off its next-generation iPhone. But, as competition in the smartphone market intensifies, the question on everyone’s lips now is whether the company, the world’s biggest
Jeff Bezos isn’t easily satisfied. He’s the 26th richest person on the planet, and he’s been a (self-made) billionaire for nearly two decades. And yet the 48-year-old founder of Amazon.com continues to push his company, and himself, into new territory. When Amazon launched the Kindle e-reader in late
After Samsung Electronics’ incredible Galaxy S3 smartphone, we had high hopes for the Korean company’s latest tablet offering, the Android-powered Galaxy Note 10.1. Unfortunately, it was not to be. Although the Note 10.1 has a few standout features – the stereo front-facing speaker system
Online retailer Amazon.com has taken the wraps off its updated range of Kindle e-readers and tablets. Its rivals, especially Apple, should be paying close attention to what is arguably and crucially the only other company with as wide a content ecosystem
Touch-screen smartphones, once an expensive rarity, now generate tens of billions of dollars of revenue every year. And Apple, a pioneer in this market, is bent on ensuring its rivals don’t profit from its original ideas. Apple’s first big case has just born
To understand the importance — and irony — of last week’s court victory by Apple, it’s necessary to go back to 1979. It was 33 years ago that a young Steve Jobs paid a visit to the Palo Alto Research Center (Parc), a research and development facility in Silicon Valley owned by Xerox. Xerox Parc is renowned for having
Last week a US court ruled that Samsung Electronics had to pay US$1bn to Apple for patent infringement. Samsung made a cool $6bn profit in the second quarter of 2012 on revenue of nearly $50bn, so $1bn, in the final analysis, is pretty manageable. But that’s not the point. The Apple-Samsung patent war
Thanks to the iPod — and subsequently the iPhone and iPad — an entire industry has sprung up creating docks, headphones and other audio accessories designed to work with Apple devices. iHome is just one of the third parties making such devices, and its latest offering, the iW1, is a rechargeable speaker designed to work
A California court has ruled in Apple’s favour in its patent-infringement case against Samsung. Slapped with a fine of US$1bn, and facing the possibility of having some of its products banned in the US, Samsung will almost certainly appeal against the decision. But with Apple’s own history of pilfering ideas, is an iron-fisted
