NEW ON YOUR PHONE
Research In Motion and Vodacom have launched the BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone in South Africa.
It is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone yet, at only 10.5mm, and the first Blackberry to offer a high-performance keyboard and touch display. It's also the first Blackberry to include built-in support for Near Field Communications, a new technology that is enabling many new capabilities, including the ability to pair with NFC-enabled accessories or read SmartPoster tags with a simple tap of the smartphone.
GEEK TOY OF THE WEEK
Sony has launched a compact tablet that folds like a book.
The Sony Tablet P will go on sale in the US later this month and it will be available in Europe in November for about R6015. For more info go to http://www.sony.com/tablet
COMING SOON
Technology blog VentureBeat reports that Apple is planning to dominate the living room with a slickly designed, user-friendly device - an Apple TV that could be in stores by next year. For information go to http://venturebeat.com/2011/ 08/26/apple-television-2012/
IN CYBERSPACE
Microsoft showed off its new Windows Explorer user interface at the IFA expo in Berlin. Microsoft gave a preview of its reimagined file-management app, Windows Explorer, in the lead-up to the release of Windows 8 but tech bloggers complained the Office-like ribbon design was cluttered and ugly.
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