August 15, 2013 •
Gadgets and Gaming •
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Electronics manufacturer Lenovo announced its results for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30 this year and confirmed that, for the first time, its combined smartphone and tablet sales have overtaken those of its PCs business. The company had a quarterly...
According to a recent study by research firm World Wide Worx, South African consumer bought over 1.4-million tablets in a period of three years – from June 2010 to June 2013. At the end of 2012, 960 000 tablet had already been sold. In terms of market...
July 24, 2013 •
Top Stories •
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There is no doubt that tablets continue to make an impact on the lives of users worldwide. More manufacturers are producing a wide variety of tablets to cater to different user needs – and this causes confusion amongst consumers. Samsung today said...
Since Windows 8’s debut last October, PC manufacturers have all followed pretty much the same playbook. Build a laptop with a touchscreen? Check. A docking laptop / tablet hybrid? Check. A strange, hinged device that twists and turns from tablet to...
March 8, 2013 •
Top Stories •
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If you are surfing the Web from a mobile device these days, odds are you are doing it not from a smartphone, but from some type of tablet. According to a study done by Adobe, for the first time tablets have surpassed smartphones for percentage of website...
February 15, 2013 •
Mobile and Telecoms •
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Amid ongoing political tension in Egypt and frustration over the recent hikes in Vodafone’s recharge tariffs, Vodafone Egypt has announced a new mobile Internet data bundle for USB modems, tablets and Mifi devices. The belief is that the new promotion...
In what could be a sign of the times, chip maker Intel has announced that they will be slowing down production of motherboards for the traditional PC over the next three years, and will instead, focus all their efforts on tablets, smartphones and ultrabooks....
Low cost airline Mango becomes the first African airline to offer a near complete portfolio of products and services through its mobi-site and tablet applications. The functionality, available from 20 September, will make it possible for South Africans to...
Nigerians will soon be abe to get their hands on Apple’s new iPad, as Core Group Africa, the Value Added Distributor (VAD) for Apple in Nigeria, announced that the device has officially been launched in the African country. The launch of the new iPad in...
March 20, 2012 •
Features •
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The growth of tablets continues to surpass expectations, throwing the PC industry into disarray. The iPad is so popular that publishers and other content-rich industries are forced to reposition their wares or risk failure. A powerful wave of content...
The Encipher INYE tablet is a 7inch tablet device which runs Google Android 2.1 and allows users to access the Internet, watch movies and listen to music. The INYE tablet is developed by the Encipher Group, based in Lagos, Nigeria. In May 2011, the Encipher...
For most IT departments it’s an all too familiar story: executives discover the latest gadgets, start using them at home and bring them to work, expecting to access corporate applications, e-mail and data instantly. Then there are employees who have already...
There’s been substantial growth in smartphone use worldwide. The International Data Corporation (IDC) indicated that 305 million devices were shipped in 2010 and projected that this year’s shipments will hit 472 million – a growth rate of...
October 19, 2011 •
Gadgets and Gaming •
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South African online retailer, Kalahari.com yesterday announced the launch of its first Wi-Fi gobii 7” e-Reader. The new WiFi model follows the initial launch of the gobii 7” colour LCD eReader which, at a price of R899 (about US $112.7) with additional...
Middle Eastern mobile telecommunications operators, Alcatel-Lucent and Etisalat, have today signed an agreement to jointly develop a sustainable means of delivering mobile broadband to customers using a lightRadio cube. The agreement was signed by Nasser bin...
October 14, 2011 •
Security •
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Symantec Corp today 14 October 201, announced it is planning to offer Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Tablet, the first comprehensive data loss prevention (DLP) solution for the monitoring and protection of sensitive information on tablet computers....
