Rocking the Daisies is around the corner, and in anticipation for the big weekend, there’s some good news for festival-goers preparing to party.
Apple’s new iBeacon technology is set to transform how retailers, event organisers, transit systems, enterprises, and educational institutions communicate with people indoors.
Sexting can often be frowned upon, but the truth is that messaging your partner intimate things can help increase understanding and respect.
Securing your personal iCloud account is as important as ever, especially after the massive Hollywood hacking scandal, so here is how you do it.
Tom Hanks has made an impact on the App Store with his typewriter app, Hanx, which has found its way to the top of the charts pretty quickly.
There’s a way to ensure you make the right decision when shopping for your next smartphone.
Microsoft reveals the latest low-cost Nokia device which is aimed at emerging markets and first-time mobile buyers.
New app that highlights sketchy neighbourhoods or areas has been labelled racist by internet users.
Kim Kardashian’s new mobile game, Kim Kardashian Hollywood, has been getting some coverage due to its ‘so bad, it’s good’ style of gameplay, but one disgruntled mother is not seeing the funny side of the game.
A new app helps you bail out of awkward or overbearing conversations with the push of a button.
South Africans will be some of the first to try out Instagram’s new “one-tap” messaging app, Bolt, before it’s released to the rest of the world.
Silent Circle’s new private calling plan for the surveillance age hides your number and traceable details during calls or message sessions.
The South African app market is seeing some great innovation and local online social network, OurHood, is no exception, having just been picked by Evernote and the African Technology Foundation (ATF) as South Africa’s winning entrant in a competition.
Jezebel’s Tracie Egan Morrissey gives a hilarious account of what it’s actually like playing the new Kim Kardashian mobile game.
Samsung has already gone ahead and given the smart watch a go – with mixed reactions.
While popular rhetoric insists that low-end mobile subscribers in SA are getting a raw deal, that belief has been debunked by a “secret” report.
Don’t you just hate it when people use their cellphones to make calls? You’re not alone. A new study by Mobility 24 shows that voice calls are in decline, especially amongst the youngsters.
Video currently accounts for less than six percent of internet traffic across Africa, according to the Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Report, but that number is expected to grow faster than it did for any other region before it.
The whole point of online tech companies monitoring us is to try and get an idea of what we’re doing in real life. Thankfully, up until now they could only use our online footprints to try figure out what we were doing in reality. Now, though, Google is telling advertisers that they have a way of tracking us in real life, all the time.
It’s only a few short years ago that road trips, double maths lessons and waiting for your family in the car was dominated by Snakes, the game. I bet you can still remember the delight you felt the first time you saw a moving, pixelated graphic on a cell phone. And don’t get me started on the first time you laid eyes on a colour screen. It’s Friday, so take a walk down cell phone memory lane. Cue nostalgia in three, two, one…
Are Sting’s literate and self-consciously meaningful (he was never afraid to emphasize this fact in the press) lyrics of the 90’s becoming “bard like” in the age of social media? Are Sting’s lyrics possibly signaling an eventual slow demise of the publishing and media network oligarchs, in favour of mobile social media and communication? Let’s look at his poetic prose
“The electronic management of health care through mobile devices” or, more simply, “mHealth” is rapidly on the rise and a recent study shows just how much of a positive impact it is having. From everyday apps that assist with general health and fitness to more medically-purposed ones that can monitor blood pressure, the presence of […]
A UK man yesterday smashed up an entire cell phone shop in Manchester because they would not give him a refund. Ripping phones from the walls, letting off a fire extinguisher, this guy went all the way. Check him raging against the machine after the jump.
Mobile technology and internet maven, Arthur Goldstuck joined Egon Seconds on 2oceansvibe Radio’s Easy Sunday Show, yesterday. He discusses his favourite mobile phones, and makes a stunning prediction for 2012’s phone of the year. Catch it all, in this podcast. Arthurgoldstuck-15-apr-2012 by 2oceansvibe.com