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
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Google’s Android Market, Apple’s App Store, Nokia’s Ovi Store and BlackBerry’s App World together offer hundreds of thousands of free and pay-for apps. But finding the diamonds in the rough is often hard. These are some of my free favourites that run on both Android
Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia is in early talks with SA mobile operators about offering fixed-cost data plans on most of its handsets in similar vein to Research in Motion’s popular BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), TechCentral has established. For now, only BlackBerry
Televisions have been getting bigger, thinner, lighter and cheaper, offering consumers a high-definition and increasingly cinematic experience at home. But they have remained largely passive devices for consuming content. That may be about to
Former regional director for BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has been appointed as the new MD of Samsung Electronics in SA, the Korean company said on Monday. TechCentral revealed last month that Liebenberg
The international media is filled with tales of woe about BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM). The Canadian smartphone company’s share price has lost half its value since the beginning of the year. Yet BlackBerry is SA’s sexiest
In this week’s post-Youth Day show, Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson discuss Telkom’s results presentation on Monday, looking at the ongoing troubles at Multi-Links in Nigeria and 8ta’s latest subscriber numbers. They also chat about IBM’s centenary, the
Few things incite as much passion among technophiles as their choice of smartphone. In the 1990s, phones were merely functional or fashionable. Now they have been elevated to a quasi-religious status. So the news that Android is “crushing”
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s regional director for sub-Saharan Africa, Deon Liebenberg, has resigned and will join rival Samsung, TechCentral has learnt from well-placed sources. Liebenberg, who has been at RIM for the past five years, declines
Apple’s popular iPad has ruled the roost in SA since it launched the first iteration of the device in January, followed a few months later by the iPad 2. However, Apple’s early domination of the market