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: 742 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: innovation, iPhone, Microsoft, South Africa, Windows 7, Windows Home Server, XBox 360
So what is my opinion of the iPad? Well first off, I do like it. Despite all its shortcomings, I think it might be a game-changing device.
I read somewhere that the iPhone should be renamed the iPad Nano. And that might be a very apt description, ...
Views: 706 | 12 Comments » | posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Tags: Apple, iPad, opinion
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...
Views: 572 | 4 Comments » | posted on Thursday, January 14th, 2010 | Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Kindle
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...
Views: 1052 | 8 Comments » | posted on Friday, November 13th, 2009 | Tags: Maemo, mobile technology, Nokia, review
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...
Views: 1502 | 4 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Apple, geotag, Gmail, Google, iPhone, Picasa
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...
Views: 1706 | 1 Comment » | posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009 | Tags: Apple, iPhone, South Africa, Vodacom
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...
Views: 641 | 8 Comments » | posted on Monday, August 31st, 2009 | Tags: Apple, Mac OS X, Snow Leopard
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-...
Views: 338 | 1 Comment » | posted on Friday, August 14th, 2009 | Tags: Apple, tablet
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...
Views: 2554 | 35 Comments » | posted on Friday, June 19th, 2009 | Tags: Apple, brand, computers, hardware, marketing, South Africa, twitter
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...
Views: 966 | 6 Comments » | posted on Monday, June 15th, 2009 | Tags: Android, Apple, Google, iPhone, open source, smartphone
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