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Minnaar Pieters
Microsoft is one of those companies that always seems to carry the weight of the computing world -- and rightly so. If you think of any area within computing, MS somehow has a finger in the pie. In some areas of course, they are the pie.
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Views: 1084 | 1 Comment » | posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: innovation, iPhone, Microsoft, South Africa, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, XBox 360
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Andy Hadfield
I do get tired of the frantic "trending" that occurs at the beginning and end of every year. Hence, I tend to sit back, take it all in and try give a summarised, more considered view a month or so later. Call it cutting through the clutter, if you wi... |
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Views: 672 | 2 Comments » | posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010 | Tags: cellphone, digital, engagement, mobile, news, social media, South Africa, Strategy
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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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Views: 342 | No Comments » | posted on Monday, January 18th, 2010 | Tags: censorship, China, Gmail, security, United States, YouTube
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Minnaar Pieters
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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Views: 1035 | 11 Comments » | posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Kindle
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Reader Blog
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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Views: 964 | 8 Comments » | posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 | Tags: Linux, Windows 7, XP
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Minnaar Pieters
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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Views: 1610 | 4 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Apple, geotag, Gmail, Google, iPhone, Picasa
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Andy Higgins
When it comes to free photo-editing software, an amateur is spoilt for choice. It seems that big players are competing to bring their solutions into what used to be a very niche field, reserved for enthusiasts. For example, IrfanView, which we often ... |
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Views: 705 | 1 Comment » | posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: edit, Google, IrfanView, Picasa
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Reader Blog
By Guy Taylor
The emotions that drive us are strange things, anger over the dehumanisation of Caster Semenya, fear of an unknown East taking over an unfit West, and hope for a better day, and a better land that we love. Yes I'm an ardent patriot, ... |
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Views: 691 | 2 Comments » | posted on Friday, September 11th, 2009 | Tags: Cape Town, Gareth Knight, Justin Stanford, Silicon Valley, Vinny Lingham
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Minnaar Pieters
Vodacom launched the iPhone 3GS about a month ago on 28 July, but unfortunately stock was very limited -- in fact, there is still a major shortage of the 3GS in South Africa. (you can read about my mission to get one here, and a bit of well-deser... |
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Views: 1875 | 3 Comments » | posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 | Tags: Apple, iPhone, South Africa, Vodacom
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Minnaar Pieters
On August 28 Apple finally released the latest version of its Mac OS X called Snow Leopard. Though it is a new version, the changes are very subtle, but those little things add up to a highly revamped Mac experience. And though the traditional Ap... |
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Views: 839 | 10 Comments » | posted on Monday, August 31st, 2009 | Tags: Apple, Mac OS X, Snow Leopard
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