Apple Loop: Latest iPhone 7 Leaks, Apple Chases HBO and Time Warner, Microsoft’s Apple Attack
Taking a look back at another week of news from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes all the details on iOS 9.3, the continuing anger over Apple’s removal of the headphone jack in the next iPhone, Microsoft’s attack on the iPad Pro, Apple’s potential purchase of Time Warner, the impressive sales of the MacBook range, Apple Music’s subscriber numbers, the problems with Apple News statistics, Jason Snell’s report card on Apple in...
BlackBerry new phones will come in Android OS
This will be an all-Android year for BlackBerry’s newest phones. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company plans to release one new product, and potentially a second phone, in 2016. Both will run on Google’s mobile software, CEO John Chen confirmed in an interview at CES in Las Vegas. It’s bittersweet news for die-hard BlackBerry fans, a shrinking, but fiercely loyal group. Yes, BlackBerry will continue to exist, but won’t offer any phones...
Cell Phones in Africa: Communication Lifeline
Texting Most Common Activity, but Mobile Money Popular in Several Countries In a few short years, the proliferation of mobile phone networks has transformed communications in sub-Saharan Africa. It has also allowed Africans to skip the landline stage of development and jump right to the digital age. Cell phones are pervasive in the region. In 2002, roughly one-in-ten owned a mobile phone in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Ghana. Since...
Durex’s Technological Innovation
The only time a relationship with an inanimate object has probably ever been acceptable is when it involves our phones. With handhelds offering us almost everything we need (even sexually), we find ourselves glued to them, and when we’re in relationships, they tend to become the “other woman.” Durex has come up with a technological innovation involving our cellulars that aims to improve our sex lives through the devices we obsess over...
SPECIAL GUSHESHE MENTION: BMW 325 iS
SA’s cult classic, the BMW 325 iS is the original panty dropper. This car is no- torious from the streets of Soweto to the flats of the Cape to the township of Umlazi. Feel like a thug behind the wheel with THE car of all cars for drag racing, drifting and spinning. Recently the South African hip-hop scene has come out with tracks men- tioning the cult classic; Cassper Ny- ovest ft. Okmaloomkoolkat – Gusheshe as well as rapper...