Prezi, an innovative presentation application that allows users to "zoom" in and out, and around, their presentations has now launched on the iPad, the company announced on its blog.Prezi is an alternative presentation tool to Microsoft's Powerpoint, allowing users to pan and zoom in and out of their presentations, rather than the linear slide approach of most popular presentation platforms. It's won fans from around the world because of its unique approach to creating presentations.The iPad app allows users to ...

There is something going on in China, Russia and South Africa. Via various internet investments and creations, these three countries combined have built up major stakes in some of the world's biggest sites and social networks.Russian investment company, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), now owns about 7-10% of Facebook by various estimates, putting the company among Facebook's biggest owners. Via its sister company Mail.ru, another 2.4% of Facebook is held. Recently, according to the New York Times, DST ploughed a further ...

Left, right, up and down and side-to-side, now stretch. Now that Sony's PlayStation Move and Microsoft's Xbox Kinect are out and on sale alongside the Wii, I can guarantee in millions of homes across the globe, bodies are in motion. The gaming future is here.And what a bothersome future it is.As a gamer, it's my opinion that the entire motion control age is unhealthy for games. I am not opposed to the concept of motion controls but the history ...

I spoke with Bob Ackerman, managing director of US-based Allegis Capital and a veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist about some of the trends and issues in VC.Here are some of his insights on the key issues:- Cloud will be big this year and a big buzzword and that worries me because there will likely be too many companies funded that shouldn't be.- Storage is another hot area simply because of the massive amount of data being created daily and the ...

Giants from Hollywood, technology and retail are out to rev up digital film sales by letting people buy lifetime rights to watch movies on whichever devices suit their fancies.A Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) alliance that includes Warner Brothers, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Sony, and Fox is working to break down walls between gadgets and services to catalyse demand for films. But more importantly these players are looking for a way to distribute movies online, while still having full control over ...

Pretty much everyone hates calling a call centre. They keep you on hold perpetually and when you finally get past the annoying repetition of bad eighties music and speak to a human being they have no idea how to help. So begins the "departmental bounce" and after you run the gauntlet of incompetence, running up a colossal phone bill, the call is ended without any real help being delivered.The days of the call centre gauntlet are apparently over according ...

Slick touchscreen tablet computers and smarter devices for the home and the car took centre stage as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) wrapped up on Sunday.The "always-connected" lifestyle was on full display at the annual gadget extravaganza as Internet technology ruled at a show traditionally dominated by eye-popping new television sets.Tablet computers to rival Apple's iPad were the hot new products on display along with powerful new smartphones, ultra-thin laptops and Web-connected and 3-D TV sets during the four-day event."The ...

Mobile phones aren't the only things getting smart. Home appliances are too.On display at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas along with the latest smartphones and touchscreen tablet computers are ovens, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, refrigerators and other products for the "connected" home.South Korea's LG Electronics is displaying its "Thinq" home appliances which are connected to a home Wi-Fi network and can be controlled by a smartphone or a computer.They include washing machines that can be instructed from ...

Every geek needs his movies. It's for extending our inherent geek repertoire, for dazedly watching our favourite Saturday morning cartoons come to life on the silver screen (and then being hyper-critical about the smaller details), for filling those awkward moments of silence in certain social circles and for making buying gifts for geeks simpler. Yes, the world of the cinema is every geek’s playground and in 2011, there's a whole new roller-coaster a-comin'...A geek without his indelible source of budding ...

The retailer is now a publisher. And we see retailers rolling out multi-channel networks filled with original editorial content spanning everything from how-to videos and gift guides to new-technology primers and behind-the-scenes looks at popular movies.As Natalie Zmuda, writes on Ad Age: "The press corps at this year's Consumer Electronics Show may find themselves jostling for soundbytes and product demos on the Vegas strip with video crews from Best Buy."Execs say the intent is to be complementary to, not competitive ...