10 million units of Galaxy S4 sold in less than a month

2013 May 23 | 2677 Views
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest smartphone maker, said Thursday that it has sold more than 10 million units of Galaxy S4, the latest flagship smartphone model, in less than a month since its...

Nokia introduces Nokia Lumia 925

2013 May 14 | 2890 Views
London - Nokia today introduced the Nokia Lumia 925, a new interpretation of its award-winning flagship, the Nokia Lumia 920. The Nokia Lumia 925 introduces a metal design and showcases the latest Pu...

Gtel takes the fight to Samsung, to launch A717 Explorer

How to save your mobile phone if you get it wet

2013 April 11 | 3890 Views
We have all had it happen, from the toilet drop disaster to phone in the bathtub moment. It can be an upsetting experience, but if you wet your phone, all is not lost.Act quickly and you can o...

Facebook introduces new product 'Home'

Facebook phone to be launches tomorrow

2013 April 03 | 3188 Views
The giant online social network Facebook is set to launch the new "Facebook phone" tomorrow April 4.The press event will be held at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California - revea...

BlackBerry CEO blasts iPhone

2013 March 24 | 4033 Views
TORONTO - Apple‘s iPhone is outdated, according to the chief executive of BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion Ltd.Thorsten Heins made the comment Thursday on the eve of the much-delayed laun...

Zimbabwe mobile tele-density stands at 97%

Econet continues to innovate

2013 March 07 | 4579 Views
As it continues on its path to diversify income streams, it was recently reported that Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe's largest telecommunications company, is to extend its footprint into South Africa, wi...

Parents should limit kids' use of mobile, cordless phones - health warning

2013 March 04 | 3098 Views
PARENTS should limit kids' use of mobile and cordless phones, Australia's radiation watchdog recommends in new health advice.The Federal Government's Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclea...

Zimbabwe's mobile penetration rate reaches 97%

2013 February 27 | 3243 Views
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), has released the December 2012 (4th quarter) mobile phone and fixed telephone subscribers statistics. According to sta...

Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona

2013 February 25 | 2744 Views
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) will start on today (Monday Feb 25) in the Spanish city of Barcelona and will last till Thursday, showcasing key developments in applications and technology.Lea...

Apple team working on 'iWatch' - Report

2013 February 15 | 3861 Views
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple already has a 100-people team working on a "Dick Tracy"-style wristwatch that has smartphone functions, according to U.S. media reports Tuesday.The team's size, including...

Worldwide mobile phone sales dropped in 2012

2013 February 13 | 2935 Views
Sales of mobile phones around the world fell last year for the first time since 2009 as consumers shunned cheaper feature phones, research company Gartner said on Wednesday."Tough economic con...

RIM set for Blackberry 10 launch tomorrow

Pop star casually shares photos of his brand new 'iPhone 5' online

2012 September 03 | 2049 Views
A Taiwanese pop star casually shared photographs of his brand new 'iPhone 5' with his 13.5 million followers this week on Weibo, the Chinese micro-blogging equivalent of Twitter....

iPhone maker, Apple, wants four more Samsung products banned

Samsung fined over USD $1 billion for infringing six of Apple's patents

2012 August 25 | 2095 Views
A US federal court jury on Friday said it has found Samsung infringed six of Apple's patents and ordered it to pay more than 1 billion US dollars in damages to Apple.The verdict was read in a ...

NetOne threatens to have Econet board and management arrested

2012 August 24 | 2641 Views
NetOne is not taking the blow they suffered from Econet yesterday lightly. In a press notice released today, the state owned mobile operator has threatened to have Econet Wireless Zimbabwe's board a...

Facebook tops mobile internet statistics in Africa

Samsung Galaxy S 3 officially launched in Zimbabwe

2012 July 13 | 3564 Views
Some several hours ago, Samsung Zimbabwe officially launched the Galaxy S III at a colourful function in Harare attended by the some notable names in the Zimbabwe tech industry. The Galaxy S III has ...

Amazon now developing a smartphone

Microsoft looking at making its own smartphone

2012 June 22 | 1883 Views
Microsoft Corp is looking at making its own smartphone to kickstart sales of its Windows mobile software, according to a Wall Street analyst who has followed the company for many years.The ta...

Apple previews iOS 6 with new Maps app

2012 June 13 | 1383 Views
Apple on Monday previewed the upcoming version of its mobile operating system iOS 6, with notable features including new Siri support for more languages and new Maps app with Apple-designed cartograph...

Apple likely to unveil the iOS 6 in September

2012 June 11 | 1366 Views
The appleinsider.com reports that Apple will likely unveil the iOS 6 Golden Master in September early enough to release the next-generation iPhone that same month and generate "significant" sales of t...

Less people in Zim now use landlines

Facebook creating its own mobile phone

2012 May 28 | 1999 Views
Facebook is preparing to take on Google and Apple by creating its own handset and the software to operate it, according to a string of reports from Silicon Valley to Taiwan.The social network ...

Google seals Motorola Mobility acquisition

2012 May 23 | 1521 Views
Google announced on Tuesday that it has closed the 12.5 billion-U.S. dollar acquisition of Motorola Mobility."I'm excited to announce today that our Motorola Mobility deal has closed. Motorola...

Apple to drop Google Maps in the upcoming mobile platform iOS 6

2012 May 16 | 1484 Views
Apple will drop Google Maps from its upcoming mobile platform iOS 6 in favor of its own mapping system, it was reported on Friday.The application design is said to be fairly similar to the cur...

Zimbabwe to decide on Blackberry use

Smart-device swiping likely to gain widespread acceptance by 2020: study

2012 April 20 | 1930 Views
By 2020, smart-device swiping will have gained mainstream acceptance as a method of payment by owners of smartphone and other devices, nearly eliminating the need in most cases for cash or credit card...

Apple's iPhone loses market share in China

2012 February 17 | 1258 Views
Apple Inc's share of China's booming smartphone market slipped for a second straight quarter in October-December, as it lost ground to cheaper local brands and as some shoppers held off until after th...

Telecel launches emergency airtime credit facility

Google launches 'Bouncer' service

2012 February 06 | 1248 Views
Google has announced it's new security solution for Android codenamed 'Bouncer' which will be scanning existing and future apps in the Android Market."Here's how it works: Once an application ...

Intel announces its first Smartphone chip customers- Medfield chip

2012 January 11 | 1043 Views
Intel on Tuesday announced its first smartphone customers, signaling the arrival of Intel Inside smartphones after years of uphill struggle by the chip maker.Speaking at the Consumer Electron...

Apple, HTC patent battle: How does it affect you?

2011 December 21 | 1030 Views
Recently Apple scored a narrow victory against HTC as a court ruled that the latter copied its touch screen software for clicking on phone numbers in documents from the iPhone.Here are some...

Apple Inc narrowly wins patent battle against HTC

2011 December 21 | 1360 Views
Apple scored a narrow victory against HTC last night as a court ruled that the latter copied its touch screen software for clicking on phone numbers in documents from the iPhone.However the U...

Youth of today are fed up with the iPhone: report

2011 December 14 | 1167 Views
A Nokia executive has claimed that the youth of today are fed up with the iPhone and baffled by Android, U.S. media reported on Tuesday."What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up with i...

Preinstalled mobile software logging almost everything users do on their handsets: Research

2011 December 01 | 831 Views
A latest research video showed that a preinstalled mobile software with no way to opt out has been logging almost everything users do on their handsets, technology news website CNET and other U.S. me...

Google withdraws Gmail app for BlackBerry

2011 November 10 | 920 Views
Google has announced it's pulling out its Gmail app from BlackBerry App World as of 22 November, so grab it while you can.BlackBerry users will be able to continue to access Gmail through ...

Motorola posts third-quarter loss prior to Google take over

2011 October 28 | 664 Views
Motorola Mobility posted a third-quarter loss ahead of its acquisition by Google, but it beat Wall Street earnings estimates, Roger ...

SA BlackBerry users could claim refund

2011 October 13 | 833 Views
South Africa - BlackBerry users affected by the recent outage should seek recourse from the National Consumer Commission, SA Business Day reported on Thursday....

BlackBerry services hit by second day blackout

2011 October 12 | 870 Views
LONDON. - BlackBerry users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa were hit with service disruptions to their smartphones for a second day yesterday after an unexplained glitch cut off Internet and...

iPhone 4S pre-orders top 1 million in 24 hours

2011 October 11 | 943 Views
Apple announced on Monday that pre-orders of its iPhone 4S have topped 1 million in a single day, surpassing the previous single-day pre-order record of the company's smartphone.The iPhone 4S ...

Samsung wants to block the sale of iPhone 4S

2011 October 05 | 819 Views
Seoul - Samsung says it will file court injunctions in France and Italy seeking to block the sale of Apple's latest iPhone amid an intensifying patent fight between the smartphone giants.Sams...

Apple to launch new iPhone, 4th of October

2011 September 28 | 767 Views
Apple on Tuesday announced an invitation-only special event featuring iPhone on Oct. 4, 2011.With a simple headline reading "Let's talk iPhone," the invitation said that there will be an "exec...

Econet expects to have 6 million subscribers by end of September

2011 September 07 | 825 Views
When Econet announced yesterday that it is ready to launch its mobile money service, it also disclosed one interesting number. That number is 6 million. At the end of this month, Econet says it will...

Apple employee loses an unreleased iPhone

2011 September 01 | 696 Views
FOR the second time in little over a year, an Apple employee has lost an advanced and unreleased iPhone model in a public place, CNET said today.The most recent incident came after an Apple e...

Apple suppliers now manufacturing cheap iPhone 4

2011 August 23 | 839 Views
According to a report by Reuters on Tuesday, Apple Inc's Asian suppliers have begun manufacturing a lower priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive.The ...

Apple likely to launch iPhone 5 in September

2011 June 28 | 729 Views
Apple might surprise consumers later this year by releasing two iPhones, according to analysts from two different investment banks.Some call it the iPhone 5, to run the iOS 5 operating system ...