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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
So, the internet/blogosphere is abuzz with news of an Apple tablet, and deservedly so. While I am not going to say I don't believe it is not coming any more (there is way too much evidence forming) I am having a tough time placing it in Apple's line-...
Here is a letter I sent today to Apple's European customer-relations representative. Core buys their stock from Apple Europe so they seem like the right people to contact. I hope I get feedback.
To whom it may concern
I am sending you this em...
Last Monday I finally received the HTC Magic (also called the G2) -- a phone I have long been looking forward to, not so much for the hardware, but for the operating system. This is Google's second official iteration of Android, its open source m...
About a week ago I went up to Mtunzini to visit the cable station that recently finished construction. Seacom is an underwater fibre-optic cable being installed along the coast of East Africa -- a tremendous boost for all the countries affected. When...
While Windows 7 is constantly in the news this year, we can finally start making an educated judgement on what significance this product might have. In the last 10 years just about any Windows release was plagued by the same problems time an...
Minnaar is an IS lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch who has an immense passion for all things tech related. He embraces technology, open source and web standards, and participates and contributes to the social web.
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