Steve Jobs’s keynotes were often punctuated by many a memorable “One more thing…” moments during which the former Apple CEO,  who appeared to have concluded his speech, would introduce the main product drawing laughter from his expectant audience.

The video below posted by the EverySteveJobs channel on You Tube takes those very moments from various events and brings them together in a complete compilation from 1999 all the way through to 2011, the year of his death.

From the announcement of Apple laptops (no wires!) and the Apple cinema display to his taking up the position of CEO in 2000 and the iPod, Jobs always had just one more thing up his sleeve.

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Skype launched its video messaging service across all major platforms on Monday, June 17. It had been in beta for some time (although not available everywhere at the time), with early adopters limited to twenty free messages, except for premium subscriptions which had unlimited free messages.

It is now out of beta and luckily free for all. You can now send video messages to Skype contacts on Windows and Mac as well as mobile operating systems iOS, Android and Blackberry. Curiously, there is no Windows Phone version as of yet, but we are sure it will follow soon.

Check out Engadget’s hands-on first impressions of the beta below:

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Cape Town based LiquidSafe has recently been awarded the exclusive license in South Africa to supply the latest nano technology.

Originally developed in Europe the technology, that was the product of over 16 years of research and development, protects mobile phones, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices from humidity, rain, snow and water exposure with a chemical compound 2000 smaller than a strand of hair and without changing the look and feel of the device.

With its head office based in Johannesburg, LiquidSafe founder and CEO Björn Oehl, says that “Joburg is the site of our Nano-Coat Plasma Reactor,” the machine used to manufacture the technology. “Customers will be able to send us their phones to be nano-coated with our patented invisible monomer (gas). This will make the phone 100% water resistant without a case.”

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Myspace has returned having officially launched  on Wednesday now under new management and with a slight change in name – notice there is no capital S.

In addition to a fancy launch party held in L.A and attended by a slew of celebrities including actor, singer and investor Justin Timberlake, owners Tim and Chris Vanderhook have poured $20 million into an advertising campaign to ensure the public know of its revival.

Now centred around music allowing users to connect with one another based on their song and artist preferences, Myspace returns with a complete redesign and free mobile app for iOS.

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Bandwidth Blog was invited to be part of Samsung’s latest social responsibility program: the Samsung Solar School. As Samsung does best, they use technology to improve people’s lives and the Solar School does just that.

The school is designed inside a ship-container and equipped to such a level that you can literally put it anywhere and use it as a fully functional teaching facility. The solar panels at the top of the school, create enough electricity to power twenty-one notebooks, lights, a large touch screen and a server.

The Samsung Solar School created specifically for Africa was first shared by the company in late 2012. The educational content is changed according to a countries’ curriculum to keep on track with all other schools. The windows have strong burglar bars to keep the equipment safe and the walls are insulated to regulate the heat inside the ship-container.

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This morning marked Bandwidth Blog’s first television insert to be featured on the popular breakfast show Dagbreek on KykNet.

Jacobus Kriel, our partner at JaC Productions that produces our video reviews for Bandwidth Blog TV, will be the face of Bandwidth Blog and will showcase gadget reviews and trending technologies.

You can watch this morning’s feature on KykNET’s website here. 

Catch Bandwidth Blog every Tuesday morning on Dagbreek at 07:14 am during the month of June.

Having just been announced, the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini can now be seen in a video posted by UK mobile service provider Three.

The video takes a more detailed look at the new device’s hardware and where it fits in the Samsung Galaxy family and is described as bringing the best features of the Galaxy S4 into a pocketable size.

The S4 mini running Android Jelly Bean features a 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, a 1.7GHz dual core processor, 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera.

Watch the video below:

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The previously rumoured HTC One with stock Android has now been officially announced by Google’s head of Android and Chrome, Sundar Pichai at the D11 conference.

The HTC One running Android 4.2.2  Jelly Bean offers a so-called Nexus user experience with all future software updates being handled by Google as with the Google Edition Samsung Galaxy S4.

According to The Next Web Pachai said that, “Part of what we’re going to do is actively work with partners to make [the best customer experience] happen.  At I/O, we announced the Galaxy S4 with the experience you see on Nexus devices, Google’s take on Android. That’s a small step in the right direction.”

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