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 [...]

Take one tablet and call me

By Alistair Fairweather Of all tech companies Apple Inc is the champion of playing hard-to-get. For 18 months it has had geeks and journalists salivating over rumours of another revolutionary product. Finally, on January 5 the Wall Street Journal broke the (sort of) official news – Apple will be revealing a “multimedia tablet device” in [...]

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 [...]

Blip, here comes YouTube’s competitor

Breaking new media news this week, Blip.tv has unveiled innovative partnerships that will possibly shake the new media scene.

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 [...]

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 [...]