Earlier this week, we told you about the 15 000 (at least) new app submissions that BlackBerry is planning on launching alongside the launch of its new smartphones and OS. Here is a good look at a lot more information ahead of that launch. Rogers is a Canadian wireless carrier and has started training its […]
An American software developer has been fired after his bosses learned that he outsourced all his work to China – something he was being paid a six figure salary for.
In the spirit of getting your life administration jacked up to acceptable levels, we present four awesome cloud storage solutions, and their comparative strengths and weaknesses. For the sake of benchmarking value, we’ve taken the liberty of comparing what you’d get from each of these services for $9,99 a month.
Shame, this woman took a photo of her dress to put it up on ebay for sale and didn’t realise the mirror behind the dress had caught a glimpse of her taking the picture. Naked. The internet ensured the ad and picture went viral.. This, from Gawker: An unnamed eBay seller from Oxfordshire has attracted […]
A lot of cool kids are getting their iPhone 5s at the moment. I got mine (64gb) on Monday from Digicape and G-Man got his yesterday (his first iPhone since the 3). We both went for the white over the black. This is why: 1) The black iPhone 5 is highly susceptible to scuff and […]
Many strange things have been seen on Google’s Street View application. Now they’ve been forced to answer about the fate of a donkey in Botswana that they may or may not have knocked over. They have of course denied knocking the donkey over.
BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion is enjoying some motion ahead of the launch of its new phones and operating system: at least 15 000 new application submissions have been received to date.
Google has been handed a clear message from Brussels that will see the search giant have to modify the way it presents its results because it unfairly promotes links to its own services above those of third party companies.
A school in Texas, in the United Sates, of America, has been given the right to force its students to wear locator chips when they are on school property.
It was six years ago that the world received something it had yet to conceive: the iPhone. That historical day saw Steve Jobs make his way onto stage at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco to deliver a product that has revolutionised the mobile phone market.
We have already had a look at some of the really cool things that have come out of 2013’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but here is a more comprehensive list of some of the coolest things.
You need to box smart these days, if you want to take your brand / clients to the next level. Banner ads and bullshit reports about “Advertising Value Equivalent” just won’t cut it anymore. You need to move ahead and keep your finger on the pulse, before you get eaten. Here’s how:
Mark Shuttleworth took a few minutes out form patrolling the floor at the ongoing CES 2013 conference in the USA to demo the latest development edition of the Ubuntu OS for smartphone. Apart from a basic scroll through a a few sceen scopes, Shuttleworth painted a picture the one device/multi-screen functionality of the OS, which […]
The laptop or tablet device of the future might just be one that rolls up and can be shoved into your pocket. A new paper-thin device with a flexible plastic screen that users can bend and touch to change the display has just been unveiled.
Instacube is the living canvas for your Instagram and Facebook photos. Finally liberated from your smart devices, Instacube streams (real-time) the candids of your friends, family and favorite people to you throughout the day.
Mark Shuttleworth has announced that his company, Canonical Ltd, has built an Ubuntu Linux system for smartphones. It will work as a full desktop operating system (OS) when connected to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
“Pretty cute, but awkwardly dressed”. That is how the average Mac female user is being described, according to a tech start-up who claims to have compiled the profile using data sourced from 1,1 million different Facebook profiles.
As US gun laws come under the spotlight after the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut another issue is receiving press, that of weapon manufacturers using games such as Medal Of Honor to market their wares.
Twitter has launched Twitter Archive, which allows you to download every single one of your tweets, ever. A post on the company blog announced the decision this morning. It’s no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your […]
The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers recently took an upgraded LS3 (Legged Squad Support System) robot out on a walk through the woods and hills of Fort Pickett, Virginia. This was the first test conducted on the LS3 after bolstering the autonomy functions for this R459m project – now in its fifth year.
When it comes to backing up, cloud storage is an option, but you can only use cloud storage for small backups. There isn’t a service on this green earth that can rival the space and portability of your averagely expensive external hard drive, right? Wrong.
Sir John Gurdon, the British scientist who won this year’s Nobel prize for medicine, says that the progression to human cloning could happen within the next 50 years. It is also Gurdon’s work involving the cloning frogs in the 1950’s and 60’s that led to the later creation of Dolly the sheep by Edinburgh scientists in 1996.
Over 15% of respondents to a British online survey conducted BroadBandChoices.co.uk by admit that over-use of their smart phone while lying in bed is probably killing their sex life. Not ideal, but then again, if you own a smart phone and ever had someone in your bed, you’ve probably had to resist the urge to […]
You will not believe this. Those of you who thought your privacy was safe on Instagram obviously forgot that Facebook bought it. Their new ToS goes live on January 16, and it will frighten you. Under its new Terms Of Service agreement, Instagram now has the right to share all your information with Facebook, to […]
Business Insider has compiled a list of this year’s celebrities who also invested the most money into technology. First up is Black Eyed Peas member, Will.i.Am (pictured above). He has become the latest celebrity to release his own brand of technology products – with a range of iPhone accessories to also go on sale later this month. His consumer electronics and app venture, foto.sosho, is the world’s first digital camera and app combination for the iPhone 4s and iPhone. It purpose is to transform the iPhone into a 14 megapixel camera!
Well, I mean, we’ve been telling you this for ages. In a survey conducted during the first week of December 2012 by online research specialists Columinate, it was found that significantly more females stating that they will do all their shopping in physical stores and men being much more likely to do all their shopping […]
We’ve already found out what the Hosties think about their passengers. But what do Hotel guests really want when they choose and check in to a hotel or guest house? GO Airport Express have just completed a study of guest what is their favourite freebie, a 57% rating said “Free WiFi”. A free breakfast is […]
We’re ending the year on a high note, and two lucky 2oceansvibers stand a chance to win an XtremeMac hamper to the value of R3500! Each hamper consists of: A Tango Airplay Speaker compatible with any Apple device with iOS 5 or newer, enabling you to share your tunes wirelessly at the touch of a […]
Yesterday Google dropped its annual Zeitgeist video – detailing what the world searched for during 2012. According to the search giant, an incredible 1,2 trillion searches in 146 languages were conducted this year!
Pope Benedict XVI tweeted for the first time yesterday from a personal Twitter account. This follows last week’s announcement by the Vatican that Benedict would begin posting messages on Twitter in eight languages under the handle @pontifex – a Latin term for pope that means “bridge builder.”