ZA Tech Show: Episode 97
Steven Ambrose of World Wide Worx Strategy makes his first appearance on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss the launch of the Apple iPad (and a few other things)
Steven Ambrose of World Wide Worx Strategy makes his first appearance on the ZA Tech Show this week, joining Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss the launch of the Apple iPad (and a few other things)
Historically, Taiwan’s HTC has focused its energies on developing Windows Mobile-based smartphones. But in the past year or so, the handset manufacturer has been two-timing Microsoft by making more and more phones that run rival Google’s Android operating system.
The Tattoo, its latest Android offering, is meant as an entry-level touch-screen alternative to more expensive options [...]
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
At last! The Apple iPhone has a serious rival. HTC’s Hero touch-screen smartphone is the first device we’ve seen that comes within a whisker of knocking the iPhone off its pedestal. But it still falls just short of being a perfect handset.
Let’s start with the positives — and there are plenty of them. The 135g [...]
Leaf International Communications, the SA distributor of HTC handsets, has recalled 3 000 Google Android-based Dream handsets from mobile operator MTN’s sales channels.
Leaf MD Quinton Leigh says the handsets have been recalled to install new firmware (operating system software) on them and to provide them with easy access to Google’s Android Market.
Similar to Apple’s iTunes [...]
