Author: Trent Meikle

Haven’t you heard? DStv offers internet now – and has done since 2021 – all done to complement its online-only streaming service. Now that MultiChoice’s home-grown service Showmax has become a big deal in its own right, it was only a matter of time before the two were joined together in holy matrimony through some sort of FLTE bundle. Well, that time has finally come judging by the masthead on DStv’s site. Could be worse The deal invites unassuming customers who don’t know any better to lay down R280 every month in exchange for a Showmax Entertainment subscription, 50GB data…

There’s a new operating system in town, and its first order of business is to overthrow Android’s long-standing dominance of the smartphone world. It’s going by the name HarmonyOS Next, and it’s been cooked up by the folks at Huawei as it looks to tear current and future devices away from Google’s OS. Godspeed, we guess. Huawei’s Next of Kin Huawei unveiled HarmonyOS Next and “officially started public beta testing” the new system software on some of its devices running the company’s Kirin and Kungpen chipsets. HarmonyOS Next is currently limited to China but, according to chairman Xu Zhijun (via GSMArena)…

There’s no better time to pretend you’re a horror aficionado than in the week leading up to Halloween. Streaming services are loaded with some of the very best horror flicks imaginable, and Disney+ is no exception, even if it doesn’t quite fit the brand. The House of Mouse is, in fact, home to some scarier titles that’ll have you swearing you just heard someone moving about in your garden – even beating out similar horror lists involving the likes of Netflix, Showmax, and Amazon Prime. You can thank Disney’s inclusion of some of the most prolific titles for that, ranging…

We’ve got some bad news. Despite the five consecutive petrol and diesel price drops around South Africa, there’s a good chance South African motorists will pay upwards of a few cents on top of the already hefty pump prices by November. That’s according to a fresh report from the Central Energy Fund (CEF) – the most reliable metric for South Africans looking to plan out their monthly fuel budgets. Bad news for petrol drivers We won’t have to worry about the price of fuel rising until the first Wednesday of the new month – in this case, that’s 6 November.…

Halloween is just over a week away, and if you’ve already checked out our essential horror viewing lists across Netflix, Showmax, and Prime Video, why not get the heart pumping by booting up the ol’ Nintendo Switch? Whether you’re in the mood for simple, spooky platforming fun or full-blown horror, there’s no shortage of games in the Switch’s catalogue. We’ve gone through the list and compiled our ten favourite Switch games that are bound to set the tone ahead of the big day. Alien: Isolation https://youtu.be/rwq-Msina10 This list isn’t ranked in any particular order, except for this one right here. Alien:…

If you thought Samsung’s Galaxy A16 was a budgeting masterclass, you haven’t yet seen Samsung’s latest crack at a budget smartphone. That’ll be the new Galaxy A06, announced earlier today and already carrying a R2,500 price tag, mimicking that of TCL’s budget offering, the 505. That won’t be the last time you hear that. Going budget (on a budget) You might expect Samsung to shirk its responsibility to kit the budget A06 properly, but that’s not what we see here. Sure, the SoC is a little underpowered, but for R2,500 were you honestly expecting anything different? If you were, the…

The spooky season is officially upon us, friends. And what better way to celebrate the occasion than by inviting the family over and sitting down to a spooky movie? Or, if you’ve got the stomach, going it alone? We’ve already combed through Netflix’s entire library for some of the best horror thrills streaming this October, and now it’s Showmax’s turn. Whether it’s Spielberg’s shark-filled masterpiece or Aja’s decidedly hilarious Crawl, Showmax has proven itself to be the home of spooky this October – as long as you’ve got the time to dig through its somewhat confusing catalogue before Halloween is…

We finally get it. Meta’s recent restructuring which involved laying off over 10,000 employees, many under WhatsApp’s wing, wasn’t the bone-headed move we were led to believe it was. It was actually a genius ploy that put Meta’s strongest foot forward: AI. Specifically, the company has plans in the works to make the Meta AI chatbot even smarter by giving it a decent memory. A trip down WhatsApp’s memory lane The change was first reported by WABetaInfo, and spotted in the latest WhatsApp beta for Android 2.24.22.9 update. It will be released to the general public as part of a future…

Five million subscribers later, Netflix slows down When we wrote about Netflix’s staggering subscriber count totalling 260 million in January, we thought that was the end of it. Despite cancelling some of our favourite series and subsequently greenlighting even more of Zack Snyder’s work, the platform somehow continues to gain subscribers. It brings the figure up to 287.7 million after Q3 in 2024 – a five million rise from Q2 2024. Revenue, unsurprisingly, is also up. That’s all apparently thanks to shows such as The Perfect Couple and Nobody Wants This rather than the budget-heavy Kaos that saw the door just two months after…

When YouTube first announced its intentions to introduce more tiers under the Premium banner, we hoped it would involve paring YouTube Music away from the service and leave a cheaper, ad-free YouTube experience in its wake. That… seems like too good an idea, entirely ensuring Google would skip it. Instead, it’s reviving the old ‘Lite’ tier, which experienced a short two-year stay in only a few countries, removing the ads from YouTube (and nothing else) for a cheaper price before it was unceremoniously shut down before it could spread its wings. Now, it’s “testing a different version of Premium Lite,” in…