Welcome to our new “Best of the Web” daily feature, in which we summarise the big tech stories from around the world. Videogames are big business. If you were in any doubt of that, consider that the Christmas season’s big blockbuster, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, has just exceeded US$1bn in sales. It’s estimated that the game has sold more than 15m units since launch on 10 November 2009
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In less than a fortnight, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will take to a stage in San Francisco to unveil one of the most eagerly awaited consumer electronics products in history. Can the brains behind the iPod and the iPhone deliver the goods once again?
In our first episode of the year Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle form the panel, with Toby Shapshak dialing in from CES in Las Vegas later on in the show. We talk about tablet devices, Vodacom’s legal battle in the Congo and Google’s Nexus One smartphone
For a number of years now, Mozilla’s Firefox has been a popular and growing alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. It’s estimated that the open-source browser is used by a quarter of all Web users. But its star could be fading.
Glen Verran, host of the ZA Show, makes his debut on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Simon Dingle, Duncan McLeod and Brett Haggard. We discuss, among other things, podcasting in SA, FarmVille, Twitter’s waning popularity and the Nokia N900
Nokia isn’t launching the N900, its first Linux phone, in SA. Which is a pity, because I think this device…
With only 10 episodes remaining before the ZA Tech Show’s 100th episode, Ben Kelly, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle get together to discuss the looming fines for Telkom, iBurst’s 20Mbit/s ADSL2+ service, Foursquare and other social networking games, and plenty more
Norway’s Opera Software estimates that it has as about 1,5m active users of its Web browser software for mobile phones…
Research in Motion (Rim), manufacturer of the BlackBerry range of smartphones, has launched its App World store in SA, the…
We have a bumper show this week. Brett Haggard, Candice Jones, Duncan McLeod, Jon Tullett and Simon Dingle constitute your panel. They discuss, among other things, Microsoft Office 2010, Google Chrome OS and Telkom’s interim results