Apple and Google are using smartphones running their software to build gigantic databases for location-based services.
Apple and Samsung go head-to-head and the SA government calls off fracking.
Samsung Electronics has filed patent lawsuits against Apple over the US firm’s iPhone and iPad in a tit-for-tat case.
Security researchers have discovered that Apple’s iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file.
Apple has sued Samsung Electronics, saying the company’s Galaxy line of smartphones and tablet computers copy Apple’s popular iPad and iPhone.
It’s 10 years since the original iPod shuffled on to the scene, changing the way we listen to and buy music.
Nokia said on Tuesday it was filing a fresh complaint against Apple for patent infringement in "virtually all" of Apple’s devices.
Parents whose hectic schedules mean they can’t be at home when their children go to bed can now buy an app to read to them.
A friend recently went to a business meeting. He prepared by pulling his laptop out of his bag. The clients responded by taking out their iPads.
Apple remains ahead of the pack with the iPad 2, which offers faster web browsing, better graphics – and a really clever cover.
Hundreds of customers queued outside Apple stores in Asia and Europe to buy an iPad 2 tablet computer amid fears of shortages.
A shortage of parts will force Sony to cut production or suspend output at five more plants in Japan following the country’s catastrophic earthquake.
Technology giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are offering digital ways to donate to Japan’s recovery efforts after their massive earthquake.
On Wednesday Apple released the second version of the iPad. Pardon me while I yawn: I know it’s rude to do it in public but what the hell?
Nokia and Microsoft teamed up on Friday to build an iPhone killer in a desperate attempt to take on Google and Apple in the smartphone market.
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/ 11 February 2011
Researchers say hack targeting Apple’s password management system poses serious security threat to businesses
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/ 1 February 2011
News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch is to unveil <em>The Daily</em> on Wednesday, a digital newspaper for the iPad.
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/ 20 January 2011
<i>The M&G</i>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five quirky things you may have missed over the last week.
Apple landed blockbuster results and a strong outlook on dazzling sales, reassuring investors that Steve Jobs’ leave will have no impact on growth.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced on Monday he is taking a new leave of absence from the technology company "so I can focus on my health".
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/ 13 January 2011
Stop the presses — completely. The world’s first iPad newspaper, the <em>Daily</em>, is prepping for launch.
There was alarm for Apple over the weekend as iPhone and iPod users complained they had missed wake-up calls because of a software programming error.
Tablet computers will lead a host of "smart" gadgets in the Nevada desert this week at the Consumer Electronics Show.
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/ 9 December 2010
The <em>M&G</em>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five quirky things you may have missed over the last week.
The only thing we can rely on in the world of tech is the next leap forward. <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> gives a roundup of 2010’s big tech events.
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/ 30 November 2010
When Steve Jobs described the iPad as "magical", PC manufacturers didn’t imagine that the magic would be to subtract money from their bottom line.
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/ 16 November 2010
The Beatles on Apple’s iTunes? Let it be. The Fab Four’s music is expected, finally, to be available for sale at Apple’s online music store.
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/ 26 October 2010
Woolworths wasn’t the first company to feel the wrath of the online community in South Africa, and it certainly won’t be the last.
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/ 21 October 2010
One of the most curious side effects of rapid innovation is on language. Rather than making words up, we prefer to frame things in analogy.
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/ 13 October 2010
Analysts say the tech heavyweight rivals are not so much heading into battle as strolling hand in hand into an ever more profitable future.
Fifteen years ago, when the internet was first flexing its gobal wings, futurists were predicting the end of all "traditional" media
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/ 26 September 2010
As Britain discovered with the Suez Canal in the 1950s, being unduly dependent on a single strategic asset can also have serious downsides.