Apple has been accused of “significantly overstating” the battery life of a number of its iPhone handsets following testing carried out by a consumer watchdog.
Qualcomm plans to unveil a dedicated chip to power standalone virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets as it seeks to break into new businesses beyond smartphones, according to people familiar with the
Last week, HTC published its February sales numbers and, when combined with January data, revenue dropped 36% from a year earlier. That decline is offset by the fact that the Taiwanese smartphone maker just
Google has closed its US$1.1bn deal with HTC, adding more than 2 000 smartphone specialists in Taiwan to help the search giant chase Apple in the cut-throat premium handset market. The deal will help Google wade deeper into
In the first episode of TalkCentral for 2018, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about MTN’s 5G trial. Also this week, they discuss the best and worst performing tech shares on the JSE and the chip security debacle. And HTC
Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg celebrate the 200th episode of TalkCentral. In the podcast this week, they chat about the dramatic fall in EOH’s share price and why it happened. Also this week, MultiChoice’s troubles over its channel supply
The physical world and digital realms are inching closer to each other with every new product we see related to augmented reality and virtual reality). One of the biggest players in this arena is, surprisingly
It’s the weekend, and that means it’s TalkCentral time. In this week’s podcast, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the biggest technology news, including the improvements MultiChoice
It was a long wait, but Thursday morning finally looked like the time to congratulate HTC on a smart move. Except I can’t. HTC messed up. Taiwan’s iconic smartphone maker is selling 2 000 of its best and brightest engineers to
Google agreed to buy part of HTC’s engineering and design teams for US$1.1bn, taking on a cadre of veterans that worked on the Pixel phone and could bolster its nascent hardware business. Google is taking on
