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You might have seen my post earlier announcing the new South Africa Streetview on maps.google.com. But have you seen the 3D View? Yup, how insane is that? How do you activate it? – Well, firstly you go to maps.google.com – Search for the street in Cape Town you’re looking for. – Then Drag the orange [...]

If you don’t already know about my extreme “AppleLust” I suggest you read my “I got 73 Apps but a iPhone I got none” blogpost. Then Mike showed me Web Africa’s latest Facebook online Campaign. You have got to check it out here. Now here’s the BOMBSHELL. They are giving away iPADs. What?! You heard [...]

For this story to be told in its entirety we would need to go back in history once or twice… Flashback. The year was 1995 and  the Sony Playstation was just released, this in a time when I was still saving to buy a Famicom TV Game (a Nintendo knockoff that came with those 100 [...]

On Tuesday I joined a group of bloggers on a tour of Fire ID and Mxit, who are both based in the Stellenbosch Techno Park. The Tour was arranged by Dave Duarte, known for amongst other  things the hugely popular 27 Dinners FireID are a hugely successful and proudly South African Startup mentored by Justin [...]

The last year of steady Android growth has got me seriously thinking that we are finally seeing a veritable challenger to the monumental growth of the iphone. My last post on the soon to be released “Nexus One” shows that this is a space that Google plans to aggressively target. Rafiq Phillips your Cape Town Web AddiCT has [...]

Over the past weekend details have started to emerge on the purported “Google Phone” with Google officially admitting that they are “Dogfooding” the phone amongst Google staff. The Name of the phone has been reported as the Nexus One Some Key Features: – Has a 1Ghz “Snap Dragon” Chip – High-resolution OLED touchscreen – No [...]

Blu-ray has been available for about three years now. Despite being the replacement to DVD I’ve not seen a big shift toward this technology, which I expected with Stores such as Hi-Fi Corporation and Game offering more “affordable” Full-HD Ready TV’s The format battle with HD-DVD seems to have stunted the growth of Blu-ray as [...]

From engadget Nokia rocked the world this morning by introducing its spin on the laptop, called the Booklet 3G. If you’re the rude sort  you could call it a fancy netbook, what with its Atom processor and 10.1-inch display, but that screen is higher res than your average Eee, and it also sports integrated 3G [...]