Apple today announced the launch of the iTunes Store in South Africa and over 52 additional countries, iTunes SA features a huge selection of local and international music from all the major labels and thousands of independent labels. The launch comes after yesterdays (3 December 2012) announcement of Apple’s iPhone 5 South African launch date ...

Apple has announced that their new iPhone 5 will be available in South Korea on Friday, 7 December 2012, with more than 50 additional countries being added in December, including a South African launch set for 14 December 2012. The iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone yet and was redesigned to feature a ...

Gartner Says Worldwide Sales of Mobile Phones Declined 3 Per Cent in Third Quarter of 2012; Smartphone Sales Increased 47 Per Cent. The following post is direct from Gartner. Samsung Extended Its Lead in the Smartphone Market Widening the Gap with Apple Egham, UK, 14 November 2012 — Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users ...

Apple today announced pre-orders of its iPhone 5 topped two million in just 24 hours, more than double the previous record of one million held by iPhone 4S. Demand for iPhone 5 exceeds the initial supply and while the majority of pre-orders will be delivered to customers on September 21, many are scheduled to be ...

Interesting infographic that highlights just how much money big companies pump into advertising, the graphic features advertising statistics for Apple, Google, Amazon and Ebay. Last year, U.S. tech company advertisers continued to increase ad and promo spending so much so that Google, Amazon and Apple are listed among the six companies with the highest ad-spending growth rates. [Source: OnlineBusinessDegree.org]

We should all remember last weeks landmark patent lawsuit between Apple and Samsung held in California, a jury found Samsung in breech of Apple’s design and utility patents and awarded the iPhone company $1.049 billion in damages. Now Apple is looking to remove eight Samsung Mobile Devices from U.S shelves, these devices include – Galaxy ...

The landmark Apple vs Samsung trial has come to an end, with the jury deciding in favour of iPhone maker Apple. Samsung was ordered by the court to pay $1.049 Billion in damages to eternal rival Apple, the jury however dissmised Samsung’s claim for patent infringements and damages. Apple had (once again) accused Samsung of ...

Apple has pushed passed Microsoft‘s old record to gain the top spot with the most valuable publicly-traded stock of all time, this was due to a recent strong performance in Apple Stock, probably as a result of a rumored September iPhone 5 launch date. Apple shares rose 8 percent in August 2012 with another 2.3 percent rise ...

Gartner says worldwide sales of mobile phones declined 2.3 percent in second quarter of 2012 while smartphone sales increased 42.7 percent. Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached 419 million units in the second quarter of 2012, a 2.3 per cent decline from the second quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone ...

Local and popular internet service provider Afrihost have launched their new iOS app called “MyBandwidth” which is basically a convenient mobile bandwidth monitor for Afrihost clients. The app is free and is compatible with Apple iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad, but requires iOS 5.1 ...

8ta has launched their new self-service Apple iPad app which aims to assist Prepaid and Contract customers in managing all their 8ta data needs, even when the customer has no airtime or data bundles. The app will alllow 8ta customers to manage their airtime and data bundle balances, redeem airtime vouchers, top-up online as well ...

First National Bank has announced the inclusion of Apple’s New iPad (aka iPad 3) to their mobile device promotion which offers qualifying cheque account holders – smartphones and tablets at reduced monthly rates. Last week Friday (27 April 2012) the New iPad was officially launched in South Africa, and earlier last week the Core Group ...