Simon Dingle and Brett Haggard of the ZA Tech Show, SA’s leading technology podcast, featured live on Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast network on Sunday. They hosted a live, one-hour show at the Showstoppers event ahead of the Mobile World Congress being held in Barcelona, Spain this week.
Nokia and Intel have announced that they will merge the best elements of their Maemo and Moblin Linux-based mobile operating systems to create the new MeeGo platform. Here, executives from both companies talk about the project.
The Mozilla Foundation will release version 3.6 of Firefox on Thursday. The alternative Web browser, which is used by about 25% of Web users, will be available to download after 8.30pm SA time.
The update to the browser includes:
Changes to how third-party software integrates with Firefox in order to prevent crashes
The ability to run scripts [...]
The Nexus One runs Android 2.1 — available as open source in the next few days — on a 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU from Qualcomm. It comes with 512MB of ROM, 512MB of RAM, and a 3.7-inch AMOLED 480 x 800 touch screen.
It’s 11.5 mm thick — or 11.5 mm thin, as Google senior product [...]
Madhava Enros, user experience lead for Firefox for Mobile, provides a demonstration of the popular Web browser running on a Nokia N900 device with the Linux-based Maemo 5 operating system.
News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch speaks to Sky News in a wide-ranging interview on the future of newspapers and the media industry.
This week 24 years ago, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. This fascinating video presentation, put together by Duncan Maile using virtual machine software, shows how the operating system has progressed since then, up to Windows Vista, released in 2006.
