BlackBerry’s App World is the most popular application store for smartphones in SA, new research has found. A report by Columinate and commissioned by Vodacom polled 11 industry professionals and about 400 smartphone owners and 35 developers
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Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys on Friday morning piqued the interest of SA smartphone users when he tweeted: “Just announced an SA apps ecosystem including local application store launching next week”. Now more details have emerged about
There are plenty of reasons why Steve Jobs is one of the most recognised personalities in business. But chief among them is the fact that he’s credited with having saved Apple and then turning it into the most valuable technology company in the
Tim Cook is set to take the reins from the world’s most celebrated CEO. Steve Jobs has recommended to Apple’s board of directors that chief operating officer Tim Cook takes the top job at the technology giant following his decision, announced
A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report, SA Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2010-2014, paints a gloomy picture of the country’s recorded music industry, with sales falling in double digits year on year. The question exercising the minds
Motorola’s Xoom has (finally) gone on sale in SA. Though it was originally regarded as the ultimate Android response to Apple’s iPad, much has changed since it was first released in international markets in February. TechCentral’s Craig Wilson spent some time
No matter how you look at it, twelve and a half billion US dollars is a lot of money. Sure, in the billionaire playground of Silicon Valley that’s merely a medium-sized company, but in the real world it’s the GDP of Botswana. So when Google
In contemporary commercial warfare, there’s only one guaranteed winner: the lawyers. The patents system exists ostensibly to encourage newcomers, protect their intellectual property and encourage innovation. But the reality is the big players are buying up every
Google on Monday said it was buying Motorola Mobility for US$12,5bn in what most analysts are seeing as escalation of the software patents war with Apple and Microsoft. But the acquisition holds both opportunities and big risks for the
TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod caught up with Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Ubuntu Linux, on Thursday and asked him about the future of Linux, patent battles in the software industry, his views on Apple and his future plans