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Communication
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RIM Receives 15 000 App Submissions
15 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
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.
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Gmail Now Allows You To Send Files Up To 10GB
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gmail users will be pleased: you guys can now send files as large as 10 gigabytes! Look, in the world of email, this is quite something.
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These Are The Only Smartphones Worth Buying
06 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Are you due for an upgrade? Or did you forget your iPhone in your pocket when you went for a swim and are thinking about a change? Check out these smart phones as ranked by Business Insider. It’s one of these, or nothing..
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Cape Town’s R1 Billion Broadband Plan
25 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, the City of Cape Town gave more details about its proposed broadband layout plan that will see high-speed Internet delivered to the masses. Unfortunately, the plan will take place over seven to 10 years, and no clear dates were announced about just when broadband will be available to the masses.
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BBC Investigates The Passive Agressive Wi-Fi Name
22 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The BBC has taken a look at the rise of the passive-aggressive wi-fi names. The gist of the matter is that wi-fi network names have become the fridge notes of the digital age.
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Pretend To Ignore This Headline – “Court Rules That Cellphones CAN Cause Brain Tumours”
22 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
2oceansvibe has long despised the rude habit of random, unplanned phone calls. That was to do with manners, but now it is OFFICIALLY affecting our health as well. So you just carry on.. make another phone call. Click headline for story.
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Nokia Subtly Throws Down The Gauntlet To Apple [VIDEO]
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It was only a matter of time before Nokia jumped on the versus-Apple bandwagon now that their new flagship, the Lumia 920, is all but on the shelves. Instead of launching into a drawn-out tirade concerning specs and features they focused on small aspects that could actually make all the difference.
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Track Any Flight, From Anywhere To Anywhere, In Real Time
13 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Flightradar24 has been around for a while now yet it seems that it’s slipped under the, er, radar, of many people. The flight tracking service gives you “real-time information for thousands of aircraft around the world” – you’ll never miss a flight, or an important airport pickup, ever again.
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Telkom Fined R449 Million By Competition Tribunal For “Price Fixing Monopoly”
07 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Finally! The Competition Tribunal today fined Telkom R449 million for “abusing its dominance in the telecommunications market between 1999 and 2004.” The fine followed a decade-long investigation into the company’s practices. This immediately affected their JSE activity as well, with the share price falling this morning by 16c to R17,89.
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New Study Reveals The Obvious – Saffas Hate Their Cellular Providers
01 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A new study commissioned by inMobi, an industry research group, has revealed that a massive 70% of South Africans are unhappy with their cellphone providers. It’s not all about the prices either.
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YouTube Introduces Face-Blurring Censorship Technology [VIDEO]
20 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
YouTube has just introduced face-blurring technology that will enable users to hide their identities in video footage they post online.
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Google Launches SMS Version Of Gmail In Africa
20 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has launched a text message-based version of its email service targeted at users in Africa. So far, the service has been made available in Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya.
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How Steve Wozniak Rolls When He Travels
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple. He’s also considered one of the reasons you might be using a personal computer right now. Steve took a photo of the contents of his backpack; click through to see how he rolls.
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Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech [VIDEO]
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of Ukrainian students are deservedly receiving a large amount of attention for a very impressive student project that has seen them qualify as one of the six finalists at this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup. They’ve invented a glove that can translate the movements made by sign language into speech.
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Incredible Images Of Massive Chinese-Built Ghost Town In Angola [GALLERY]
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you weren’t aware of just how prolific Chinese investment is in Africa, wait until you see these startling images of what’s going on in Angola.
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Radvertising: Virgin Mobile Hires Brad Pitt’s Brother As Face Of Brand [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Have you ever heard of Doug Pitt? No, we didn’t think so. But we’ll give Doug this: he’s the second most famous Pitt in his family. Unlike his famous brother, Brad, Doug Pitt has never been the star of anything. So, Virgin Mobile have decided to make things fairer in the Pitt family. This is Doug’s first non-celebrity endorsement deal. Doug has quite a vibe going on.
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Google Now, Because Siri Is Too Mainstream [VIDEO]
03 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hipsters take note, there is a new smartphone personal assistant on its way: Google Now. It’s a search-centric, voice-powered digital assistant for the upcoming version of Android that launches mid-July.
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New Cape Town Cellphone Law In Effect
02 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Talking and texting while driving is somewhat of a cultural phenomenon in South Africa. There are those that are law abiding, but there are also those that don’t seem to care, and throw caution to the wind. But now Capetonians will face a R5 000 fine, and have their phone confiscated for a day for transgressing the law, it was reported in the Cape Times this morning.
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ANC: We Want Six Provinces
29 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
A reduction in the number of provinces is something the ANC led government has often toyed with, but it appears this policy has gained increasing support among party delegates at the ANC policy conference in Midrand this year. The biggest change would see the Northern Cape, Western Cape, and some parts of Eastern Cape merge.
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Barclays Fined £290 Million Over Libor Fixing
28 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well this is terribly worrying. Yesterday, Barclays bank – one of the biggest banks in the world – was fined a record £290 million for attempting to manipulate the world’s benchmark borrowing rate – the Libor. This is a huge blow to the bank’s reputation and raises questions over the future of chief executive Bob Diamond. Up to 40 other global banks face being named and shamed too.
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Google Creates A Computer that Learns (About Cats)
26 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The internet is obsessed with cats. Completely and utterly obsessed. In Google’s secretive X labratory, scientists have developed one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors. What did it do? Watched Youtube, and worked out what a cat is.
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Fruit And Veg City Responds To Public Outcry Over Selling Endangered Fish
21 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Fruit and Veg City has been taking a social media lambasting from irate consumers that caught the fresh food retailer selling endangered fish species in a few of their stores. Debate was intense, with both customers and Fruit and Veg City getting in on the action. The retailer has since issued an official statement detailing how they plan to handle the situation of endangered fish “slipping through their nets”.
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Google Maps Introduces Real-Time Traffic Overlay To South Africa
20 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As Google becomes more and more a part of our daily life, they add features that are actually very useful. Like real-time traffic overlay on Google Maps for instance. Seven new countries, including South Africa, received access to the new service as of today. Click through to find out how it works.
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Korean Air Wants Travellers To Embrace The “Primitive Energy” Of African People
18 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
At the beginning of this year, it was announced that Korean Air would be launching the first nonstop flights from Northeast Asia to East Africa: specifically, from Incheon International Airport, South Korea, to Nairobi, Kenya. Derogatory seems a modest way to describe some of the advertising used for the new route.
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Microsoft Expected To Launch Tablet “To Compete With iPad”
18 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Microsoft might be about to launch a tablet device it would hope would compete with the Apple iPad. Its new Windows software, to be launched later this year, is designed to be used on a tablet as well as a desktop PC. It also said: “This will be a major Microsoft announcement – you will not want to miss it.”
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A Skype Call In Ethiopia Now Carries A 15 Year Jail Term
15 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Things have been less than fun with respect to freedom of speech and freedom of expression in the landlocked central African country of Ethiopia in recent years. And they just got worse. Because now a simple 30-second Skype call could land you in jail.
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Reveal Day: The New .Com Domain Names Are Coming
14 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body that regulates the Internet, released its list of applicants for new .com alternatives. There are obvious ones like .amazon and .hsbc, but less obvious ones like .ninja have also crept in. A few South African companies also got involved.
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Sir John Major – “Rupert Murdoch Pressured Me Over Europe”
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sir John Major has been giving testimony at the Leveson inquiry into British press ethics today. Some of his testimony appears to directly conflict that of Murdoch’s, who in April claimed: “I have never asked a prime minister for anything.” Major becomes the first ex-Prime Minister to claim Murdoch tried to get him to change government policy.
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Zapiro Wins 2012 International Publishers Association Freedom To Publish Prize
12 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jonathan Shapiro, more commonly known as Zapiro, has been named the 2012 recipient of the International Publishers Association (IPA) award for Freedom to Publish. He’ll receive it for his exemplary courage in upholding the freedom to publish whatever he wants, basically.
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David Cameron Leaves 8-Year-Old Daughter At Pub
11 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, left his eldest daughter, Nancy, at a pub following a Sunday lunch. It happened after a mix-up with his wife Samantha, Downing Street has admitted. The couple only realised their daughter was missing when they got home.
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