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by Reader Blog on January 18th, 2010
By Richard Catto
This month Google announced via its official blog that it would no longer be co-operating with China over the issue of filtering search engine results on Google.cn (which is the localised Chinese version of Google's search engine)...
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by Minnaar Pieters on January 14th, 2010
Once in a while a game-changing product comes along that makes you rethink conventions that are pretty much hardwired into our routines. This is immediately apparent in the consumption of media -- be it music, movies or print. With the dawn of th...
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by Reader Blog on November 26th, 2009
By Richard Catto
Like most avid computer users, the whole concept of trashing my computer and reinstalling everything from scratch is not something I relish doing because it is a task fraught with many technical difficulties that could easily leav...
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by Minnaar Pieters on November 13th, 2009
On Wednesday morning I headed over to the Nokia The Way We Live Next event in Cape Town. Richard Mulholland did an excellent (and very objective) job of explaining the current mobile landscape. During the presentation a few things were highlighted th...
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by Steve Vosloo on October 16th, 2009
M-novels, or mobile novels (stories on your cellphone) are on the rise in South Africa, as Michelle Matthews explained so well in "Cell-lit is all the rage". In SA there is about 10% PC-based internet connectivity, while the number of people with acc...
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by Muhammad Karim on October 8th, 2009
No, this is not an unsavoury campaign in any way. It is, however, a very noble and innovative campaign aiming at raising money for Breast Cancer Research. Tweet for Boobs is a US-based initiative in which Twitter users can use the tag #tweetforboob...
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by Andy Hadfield on September 25th, 2009
Fleishman South Africa were kind enough to lend me a Nokia N97 for a couple of weeks. This phone was coming into focus for me as an upgrade competitor to the iPhone 3GS. Add to that, a fairly nifty digital marketing campaign and my interest was pique...
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by Minnaar Pieters on September 23rd, 2009
Today Google released enhancements of two of their products which seems pretty normal by the looks of it. However, these two updates were targeted primarily as a move to trounce Apple. These two applications are Picasa (a free photo managing an...
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I bought a Kindle back in November and without a doubt it's one of the best tech-related things I've bought. Some of the highlights:
1 - The screen reads beautifully. No eye fatigue, clear text, after awhile you forget that you're actually reading...
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N97 - Bought it a week ago. After lots of internet searching and decision-making. You guys make me tremble. I could not decide between i-Phone compared rival - but YES - 97 is NOT that good - frozen once this week - booted - still OK. I am a electron...
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Am running Win 2000 Pro - never dared go to Vista!Missed the boat for XP!
Am very concerned about lots of my software apps (for work), which run great on Win 2000 and would probably have run also on XP, but may not run on Win7. Just cannot afford...
Just bought a new laptop with windows 7, now my problem I can't download the I-Tunes 9 version 64 bit version, coz I had the 32 bit version on my other laptop that is not compartable for this new laptop, now u can imagine my new nano I-Pod is good t...
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Nokia makes some strange decisions. What stands out for me is that a few years ago, when some manufacturers came out with touchscreen phones (which were far from perfect), Nokia reported that they don't see these phones working well and they were no...
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