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Are apps the only way to do mobile, and in fact, any computing? We appear to be living in the golden age of apps. There is an app for whatever you wish to do, be that read, or play. Led by Apple, the iPhone and iPad have the most, with ...

Amazon today announced the Kindle Fire, a US$200, 7" tablet which is runs on the Android platform. It comes with a free month of Amazon Prime and is Wi-Fi Only. It is coming Q1 or Q2 2012, although it could not confirm the release date.Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO took ...

Online advertising has been going from strength to strength since the first banner ad was served by AT&T in 1994. AT&T knew people would click its ads and oh boy how they did!One of the main reasons for online advertising success is measurability, or rather, the ease of measurability. Being ...

This week I take a look at HQ: To-Do, a stylishly designed and highly intuitive app that will revolutionise the way you see to-do lists and make you want to project manage the crap out of everything you do in life.As you can see when reading my review of Listbook, ...

I maintain that Russell Southwood and his Balancing Act newsletter and reports are some of the best material on pan-African technology and broadcast information that you can find anywhere.Their recent “Mobile apps for Africa: Strategies to make sense of free and paid apps” report is one of them, and ...

Google's biggest obstacle is Google itself. At least that's what CEO and founder Larry Page believes.Page made the pronouncement at Google's annual Zeitgeist conference for partners. He took to the stage to address the audience on the company's future and was later joined by Google's Executive Chairman, Eric ...

The woes of BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM), are well known and have been reflected in its stock's performance. Following market-analyst rumours -- first reported by Reuters -- that billionaire investor Carl Icahn may have bought a stake in RIM, however, its shares jumped.At end of trading on the ...

Yikes. I feel like I've taken a severe leaning toward being a security reporter, but I can't help it. Every day there seems to be yet another big story about how one of the core providers on the internet has been compromised. This week, it's MySQL.Considering that MySQL is ...

WordPress theme provider WooThemes has launched a new plugin application and library of integrated themes. The company claims that the product, called WooCommerce, will help "individuals and businesses turn WordPress sites into simple, elegant and fully-customisable eCommerce offerings".The South African-based company aims to replace traditional eCommerce CMS platforms and hosted ...

In an attempt to create a unified media content platform, Sony is introducing a brand-new method for viewing entertainment options on the PS3.In Canada and the United States, Video Unlimited software for the PlayStation 3 console plays to the strengths of the machines as an entertainment device, uniting it ...