This week, Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book reader went on sale in SA and around the world. E-books are finally coming of age. Here’s why you’re going to want to buy one and why you may be better off delaying your purchase for a short while. If anyone has any doubts that the future of book publishing is electronic, consider this: where Amazon stocks both
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At last! The Apple iPhone has a serious rival. HTC’s Hero touch-screen smartphone is the first device we’ve seen that…
Conspicuous for its consumer ethic, the computer industry has always embraced the belief that “more is best” — more machines,…
Is Google a friend of the media, or a foe that will undermine journalism? It’s a debate that’s been raging in media circles. But no-one has been able to agree: is Google bad news for the news business? Newspapers are in trouble, especially in developed economies. That much is clear. What’s open to debate is whether it’s the worldwide economic crisis that’s to blame or whether it’s more to do with newspaper readers abandoning newsprint for online news sources
A gathering of three forms the panel this week as Brett Haggard, Ben Kelly and Simon Dingle discuss, among other things, Halo 3: ODST, new iPods and pricing, interconnection rates, Twitter’s avatar evacuation and Facebook Lite
Why does everyone seem to think Google’s Fast Flip will save the news industry from collapsing? Looking at the site,…
Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle are in the studio (and via Skype) to discuss interconnection rates, Snow Leopard, Nokia World, Google Street View in SA, and much more
One of the worst kept secrets in SA’s technology industry is finally official. Google will launch an SA version of…
Special guest Dwayne Bailey from Translate.org.za adds his voice to the show this week, along with regulars Duncan McLeod, Brett Haggard, Simon Dingle and, later, Samantha Perry
In this episode our geeks are spread out across SA. Simon Dingle, Jon Tullett and Will Hahn are in Cape Town for Gartner Symposium 2009, Brett Haggard is in Durban for Microsoft TechEd and Duncan McLeod is in Johannesburg