[tech junkie]

Vodacom wants to rob you

Whilst making coffee at the office this morning I was informed that Vodacom have finally enabled the Visual Voicemail feature for the iPhone on their network. This feature has been available on the handset since the launch of the original iPhone 2G some 3 years ago. I always understood that the feature wouldn't be available on the Vodacom network as they would have to build some kind of additional functionality into their existing voicemail platform. This didn't really bother me and I made pe...

Windows 7 looks expensive and confusing

I just finished reading an article on MyBroadband where they have listed local pricing for the different Windows 7 options from a variety of brick and mortar and e-tailers. Firstly, I had no idea that there were so many options to choose from, again. Did M$ learn nothing with Vista ? There is no way the man in the street is going to have any idea what the difference between the different options are. You'll realise that you are getting more when you buy the "Ultimate" version, but witho...

QOTD: Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) <- this ones a doozy

Steve Ballmer: "Let’s face it, the Internet was designed for the PC. The Internet is not designed for the iPhone. That’s why they’ve got 75,000 applications – they’re all trying to make the Internet look decent on the iPhone." Wow ! Let's not even begin to discuss IE6 and the fact that without ActiveX and Silverlight I doubt a single website would look half decent in any version of IE. Any website that conforms to HTML and CSS standards looks just find uncle Ballmer. Idiot.

WolframAlpha hits the App Store for a whopping $50

Wow. This is special. An app that costs $50 that bascially does what the website does for free. Let's see how quickly the price of this app drops. Alternatively, I'm willing to bet that a pissed off developer will release an app that does almost the same thing for free. Idiots. WolframAlpha hits the App Store for a whopping $50: "WolframAlpha, the computational searchable database that went live as a website a few months ago is now an iPhone app.  'Fantastic!' you might say.  Youll take it...

The Core Group continues to screw South Africa

I wanted to post this a week ago, but as I had bought the new iPod nano as a gift for a loved one, I didn't want to spoil the surprise. About two weeks ago I started hunting for a way to get the new iPod nano delivered to my door before the 23rd of September. I tried to convince Amazon to deliver to SA, I tried BH photovideo as well as local some local stores like wantitall and have2have. Although wantitall and have2have could get them for me, they couldn't guarantee that it would arrive in t...

Xbox Live finally coming to South Africa ?

This morning while I was listening to one of my weekly podcasts (ZA Tech Show Episode 80) and yawning through the Halo: ODST review, Simon Dingle makes reference to John at M$ SA about the imminent release of Xbox Live locally. Now I know we've heard this before, but something about this conversation gives me hope that something really is about to happen. I hope the guys over at ZA Tech don't mind but I've cropped their audio clip down to the relevant part to make it easy for you to li...

Vodacom will screw you.

I just don't understand it. The iPhone 3GS has been available for weeks from Vodacom, but it seems that other operators still "have no stock". My contract is with Nashua Mobile and they are telling me that Vodacom are wanting to keep the phone exclusively for their customers at first before they release them to the other service providers. Can they be any more obtuse ?!? Vodacom will still get the business at the end of the day, so why are they withholding stock ? Come on Vodacom pull up you...