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Google Buzz Takes The Cheese Out of Facebook’s Mouth

Google Buzz Takes The Cheese Out of Facebook’s Mouth

GOOGLE’s latest feature, Google Buzz, is a social networking coup d’etat, and looks set to snatch the cheese right out of Facebook’s mouth. Launched on February 9, 2010, Buzz is designed to integrate with Gmail and provide a platform for Gmail users to share media content, links and make status updates.

February 10 2010 | Posted in BLOGS, REVIEWS | Read More »

Apple iPad, Reinventing The Wheel

Apple iPad, Reinventing The Wheel

Apple has reinvented the wheel with the iPad, arguably a middle of the road hybrid of the iPhone and Macbook. The iPad is neither a notebook nor a smartphone, but a sort of mule that combines the functionality of the two, and does more. Aesthetically, it takes advantage of the Kindle market, which has softened users to devices larger than smartphones but still smaller than netbooks, and it remains to be see what exactly the iPad will carve out as its niche.

February 4 2010 | Posted in PHOTOJOURNALISM, REVIEWS, TECHNOLOGY | Read More »

Google weighs in on civil rights, humanitarian agenda

Google weighs in on civil rights, humanitarian agenda

Google has gone beyond being just another search engine or corporation with its distinctly independent stance on global issues. From its recent public squabble with China over the hacking of email accounts belonging to rights activists in China and India, to its active role in assisting the search for missing persons in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, Google has managed set itself far apart from from its peers, still caught in the corporate web of apathy.

January 18 2010 | Posted in BLOGS, TECHNOLOGY | Read More »

Avatar: The Season of Political Satire is Upon Us

Avatar: The Season of Political Satire is Upon Us

Avatar, the latest Hollywood blockbuster to hit the market, is not just another 3D picture. It is in every respect a cleverly composed and unrelenting feat of political satire, criticizing use of the military industrial complex as an instrument of global power and manipulation and the insatiable corporate greed that drives global affairs.

January 6 2010 | Posted in PEOPLE & POWER, REVIEWS | Read More »

Google unleashes warrior in shining armor, the Nexus

Google unleashes warrior in shining armor, the Nexus

The new Google Nexus One smartphone has been touted as an “iPhone killer” with impressive specs backed by the Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair) Operating System.

January 6 2010 | Posted in REVIEWS, TECHNOLOGY | Read More »

Linux 9.10 not so bad after all…

Linux 9.10 not so bad after all…

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is a graphic marvel, but an architectural failure. It runs seamlessly with sleek applications but is dogged by the same driver issues that plagued its predecessors (likely to be unusable after each update as it keeps missing key drivers).

November 17 2009 | Posted in TECHNOLOGY | Read More »

Namibia ponders exploitation of geothermal energy, as power crisis bites

Namibia ponders exploitation of geothermal energy, as power crisis bites

A Namibian energy company specializing in the exploitation of geothermal and solar energy, Africa Geopower, Ltd is set to start the construction of an 8MW geothermal power plant at Rehoboth as part of a geothermal energy rollout programme that is expected to ease the country’s power shortages.

February 18 2008 | Posted in AFRICA NEWS, TECHNOLOGY | Read More »

Camera Phones Here to Stay

Camera Phones Here to Stay

Flavour of the month: Sony Ericson K550 Cybershot

Camera Phones: Fashion or Fad?

By Tawanda Kanhema, Econews, November 2005

Phonecams, the hottest gadget to hit the mobile phone market since the beginning of their hasty evolution have come stay, and the running convention is that if your phone does not have a colour LCD and a [...]

November 27 2007 | Posted in TECHNOLOGY | Read More »

IM versus Email and The Skype Question

IM versus Email and The Skype Question

Its been a while since I just blogged. There are many changes I have noticed.-While email has dealt a blow to snail mail and sent many a mail-man home, the emergence of other faster and more intimate forms of communication seems to be slowly eating away at the number of words that eventually make it [...]

October 3 2007 | Posted in TECHNOLOGY | Read More »

VOIP Takes World By Storm

VOIP Takes World By Storm

Internet telephony is fast changing the way people communicate. Since Newsweek ran this issue in January 2005, Skype has seen its subscriber base swelling from around 4 million users to over 9 million.

September 15 2007 | Posted in TECHNOLOGY | Read More »

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