Due for release in mid-2011, the new Mac Operating System is called Lion. There have been 7 previous releases of OS X: Cheetah; Puma; Jaguar; Panther; Tiger; Leopard and Snow Leopard. There have been rumours that suggested the King of the Cats could be the last version of OS X, although I wouldn't bet against Snow Lion coming out.At the Apple Keynote "Back to the Mac" event on the 21st October, Steve Jobs revealed several interface and navigation features of ...

RockMelt, a new web browser that connects search and social networking, launched on Monday with backing from the co-founder of one of the world's first browsers, Netscape.RockMelt, now available as an invite-only beta, is vying to make a mark in a crowded Web browser arena that already features Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox.The browser is backed by Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and several other Web luminaries including Bill Campbell, the former chief executive of Intuit, ...

With the exponential rise in mobile internet access there is no doubt in my mind that 2D codes (also known as Quick Response, or QR Codes) will become a trusty tool for "tagging" real-world objects with virtual information.Stickybits is an innovative example of how to add digital content to real world objects. However, I'm not a big fan of proprietary apps and coding. For instance, Cell C recently launched the Bee-Tag powered PhotoCode in South Africa, while Microsoft is ...

One of the basic limitations of mobile searching is that users have to be able to type their search queries into the phone, which is not always possible on the move. But all that has changed with the launch of Google’s Voice Search product for South Africa, which is currently available for all iPhone and Android platforms.With Voice Search, users can speak search queries into their mobile phones in English, Afrikaans and Zulu, and have their queries relayed back ...

On a cold and rainy Cape Town Monday morning, Google launched gSouth Africa, its sixth African event of the past twelve months, inviting developers and tech entrepreneurs from all over the continent to come and engage to help create a better, more relevant internet for Africa. The continent is the last digital frontier. More than one-billion people hungrily await the arrival of the net, and as the infrastructure reaches African shores, and the price of access drops, so the ...

The commercial tsunami unleashed by the iPhone has served as a launch pad for the videogame industry world-wide, which hopes to seize on the success of Apple's smartphone.Hundreds of participants in the two-day Montreal International Game Summit that opens on Monday in Canada will be looking for ways to better milk the gaming market cow, in the face of Apple's golden example.In barely a year and a half, the iPhone has seized 20 percent of the portable gaming market and ...

A simple wireless connection can bring the power of multiple supercomputers to a simple cellphone using cloud computing, the most powerful collection of technologies produced so far. Yet the concept of cloud computing isn't well recognised even among some of our foremost technology leaders.Take for example, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and Jared Cohen, Director of Google Ideas. They recently co-published a long article The Digital Disruption, in Foreign Affairs magazine, the flagship publication of the Council on Foreign Relations.They ...

Costa Rica on Saturday stepped up pressure on international mediators to engage in its territory dispute with Nicaragua, after Google Maps was cited in an incident that saw the neighboring countries dispatch forces to their joint border.The Internet search giant joined the fray after a Nicaraguan commander cited Google's version of the border map in an interview with Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion to justify a raid on a disputed border area.The area is hotly disputed by the two neighbors, ...

US News & World Report, which dropped its weekly format two years ago and went monthly, is now abandoning print entirely for the Web.US News & World Report management announced the move to go digital only in a memo to staff, which was obtained by the Romenesko blog at Poynter Online.The December issue of US News & World Report will be the last print edition of the magazine, long the number three news weekly in the United States behind Time ...

The mobile web is ripe for innovation. Barriers to entry have come down and the playing fields have been levelled. Software developers from all over the world are able to create apps that could become global hits. And as smart phones become more and more accessible to the masses, the market for clever, simple apps for mobile devices keeps getting larger and larger.Still not convinced? Here are four reasons why you, as a developer, should be focussing your attention on ...