Pretty much everything you’ve already read about the Samsung Galaxy S8 is true. And that’s a good thing. Whether by accident or design, the company did a truly abysmal job keeping its new flagship under wraps in the month or so following its likely intended unveiling at Mobile World Congress last month. The two models [...]
Kenya, East Africa's industrial nerve centre is on the cusp of real growth and innovation. In fact, according to the African Economic Outlook in 2015, East Africa was again the continent's fastest-growing region and is expected to continue its high growth path in 2016/2017. Infrastructure projects, manufacturing and energy and resource companies may be facing [...]
Microsoft has rolled out Microsoft Teams, the company's new chat-based workspace in Office 365. The new tool for team collaboration is now available to Office 365 business customers in 181 markets, including South Africa, and services 19 languages. The product aims to enable customers to collaborate within their organisations. Since announcing the preview in November, [...]
Root, in partnership with Standard Bank, will soon launch a lightweight bank account which comes with a programmable credit card, online banking interface, mobile app, and APIs. Root is an OfferZen project, with Standard Bank providing the underlying banking service and the regulatory framework. Root was co-founded by Louw Hopley, an entrepreneur who previously [...]
Apple's Family Sharing functionality has been one of the better features for parents, allowing them to approve family members' purchases and more. Now, Google has stepped things up in a big way thanks to the Family Link app. The app, targeted at children under the age of 13, allows you to monitor their app usage [...]
The Google app for Android now saves search queries when your data connect fails, returning results once a data signal is reestablished. Google said the search results will “deliver as soon as a connection is available”. “With this change, search results are saved as soon as they are retrieved, even if you lose connection afterwards or [...]
The Cabinet-approved cybercrimes and cybersecurity bill’s final draft will not give any power for the State Security Agency (SSA) to control the Internet or spy on local users. This is according to the Justice and Constitutional Development Department which on Thursday held a media briefing on the bill, which is expected to be tabled in [...]
The Nokia 6 – the new Android handset from HMD Global – sold out in 1 minute when it launched in China. According to International Business Times, the device went on sale on JD.com at 10:06 on 19 January and was sold out by 10:07. The company received over 1 million registrations for the flash sale, [...]
Samsung has released a report detailing why the Galaxy Note 7 exploded, citing battery quality and design flaws as the cause. “There may be multiple contributing factors relating to production quality and battery design that, when combined, led to the failure of the Note 7,” said Samsung. The battery production quality issues include missing insulation tape [...]
Asus recently launched the Tinker Board, a mini PC similar to the Raspberry Pi. These types of devices are popular among DIY enthusiasts due to their ability to interface with electronics via general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pins. This makes them suitable for anything from robotics to homemade gadgets. The Tinker Board features a similar layout to the Raspberry Pi [...]
