iPad… not so welcomed

This and the fact that the iPad is choc-full of some of the most restrictive DRM ever to hit a consumer product. Defective by Design calls the iPad “a computer that will never belong to its owner.” They’re sending this to Apple: “Mr. Jobs, DRM will give Apple and their corporate partners the power to [...]

Augmented Reality will be a game changer…

Augmented reality (AR) is a view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are merged with  virtual computer-generated imagery . AR, originally coined in 1990 by Thomas Caudell, is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, like for example sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR [...]

Cyber attacks

As you know by now, a few social networking sites (Twitter and Facebook) suffered temporary shut downs during the course of last week due to cyber attacks. Users worldwide experienced the attacks as they came in a number of waves. I googled and found that Co-founder of Twitter, Biz Stone, had posted an update on [...]

Bookmark this Google…

Apparently, within the next two weeks Google is planning to release a new version of Google Chrome that will include the ability to sync bookmarks between different computers. “The synchronisation will be managed through a Google account”, said software engineer on the Chrome team, Tim Steele in a mailing list posting on Friday. Sync or synchronisation [...]

Blue Magic illusion

Don’t you hate it when you watching a very interesting tv show and an ad comes up? Ignoring adverts is no longer an option,  it’s about to get a lot tougher with the development of billboards and advertising posters that use Bluetooth to beam video ads directly to passing cellphones. As people walk in malls [...]

Social network site mixes things up

According to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), 26 percent of the world’s population is illiterate and 98 percent of these people live in developing countries. Africa as a continent that has a literacy rate of less than 60 percent. MXit as of a week ago launched Africa’s first MBook in order to [...]

Can Kindle rescue the print industry?

Kindle DX has arrived, well it’s been in the market since 2007 but not everyone knows about it, especially South Africans. I don’t do not yet own the Kindle however, Amazon.com states that this device is a slim e-book reader, thin as most magazines, includes a program which integrates newspaper content or books instantly, is [...]

Swine flu spreads through the social networking sites

I found it impossible to escape the news about Swine flu, now called H1N1 influenza A as I pondered what to blog, it’s on everyone’s minds, lips, tweets,  and status updates… According to World Health Organisation (WHO) as of 06:00 GMT, 5 May 2009, 21 countries have officially reported 1124 cases of influenza A (H1N1) [...]