Facebook has lately seen a huge growth in registrations from people we know as our parents, uncles and aunts.

In India a new social networking site was started with just them in mind. Verdurez is a social networking site aimed at people older than 55 years of age.

Verdurez has already a userbase of just over 4000 registered users with the oldest people in their seventies. Users older than 55 years can use Verdurez to read blogs and health news, aswell as chat to other users and even build puzzles online.

To be older doesn’t mean you have to stop living, Ishita Sukhadwala owner of Verdurez said. There is so much to do specialy now in a internet era.

Leaf, the South African distributor of HTC phones has recalled 3000 Google Android phones from Service Provider MTN.

Quinton Leigh, the MD of Leaf, says that the handsets has been recalled to undergo updates to the latest Android Operating System and to provide them with easier access to Google’s Android Market, similliar to the Apple iStore to download applications.

The software update wil also includes support for Microsoft Exchange, making things a little bit easier if you are in the Corporate World.

The recall came after MTN decided that it would be allot easier to just recall all the phones than explaining to customers how to update themself. The HTC Dream, sold exclusively by MTN, should be back in stores by September the 16th, customers who have already purchased the phone can take it to any of Leaf’s branched to get it updated. Alternatively users can get hold of the firmware on Leaf’s website and flash the handsets themselfs.

@pigeonrace2009 was born due to the mere fact that Telkom is useless when it comes to internet in South Africa.

Neil the man behind the Pigeon Race idea was getting realy frustrated with the slow speed and unreliable lines that the company he is working for is using to transfer large files between satallite call centres. This made him think about a april fools paper he read a while back about using carrier pigeons as a network layer.

This all got Neil thinking about how long it takes to transfer large amounts of files in South Africa over standard ADSL line, and how fast it can be done using carrier pigeons. After discussing it with his CIO, Pigeon Race 2009 became a reality.

Basically they will be flying a pigeon with a 4GB micro SD card from Howick to their central site in Hillcrest. They did a dry run. Here is the stats: Pigeon took 48 minutes to deliver the data. ADSL is still downloading. Telkom got hold of this via the media and is currently in a flat spin. They got a call from Telkom asking them for their circuit numbers so they can make sure they have good service.

Now for the best part, tranfering the data through ADSL circuit is costing them +- R45 000 per month, now if they moved to Avain Carrier Pigeons they will be saving a whopping R35 000 per month.

If you would like to support Neil and Winston the Carrier Pigeon go check out their site, follow them on twitter or search for Winston on Facebook. You can also buy a very nice shirt from springleap to show your support.

Thank you to everybody that entered the G-Connect voucher give away. G-Connect was kind enough so sponsor two R50 G-Connect prepaid vouchers for me to give away.

For those of you that did not win anything, please try again next time. You can also try G-Connect’s great offerings for realy cheap prepaid unshaped internet with data carry over.

The Winners:

Congratulations to Dade & Mikesentry you are the winners of the Vouchers, I will get in contact with you guys via email soon.

Apollogies for not posting the Friday Eye Candy the past two weeks, I totally forgot about it. To make up for it I’m bringing you this sexy girl.

Where you’ve seen her: She was a spokesmodel for La Senza lingerie and walked for Victoria’s Secret in 2001. In 2005, Maxim magazine placed Heming at number 86 in its “Top 100″ list. Earlier this year she married Bruce Willis.

Pointless Quote: “I married Bruce Willis”

Just a friendly reminder for you guys that missed the G-Connect Giveaway post. You have until end of day Friday to enter to stand a chance to win one of 2 G-Connect vouchers to the value of R50 each.

Each voucher can be used to buy 1GB worth of Internation ADSL bandwidth, this is a great way to test out G-Connect’s great offerings if you always wanted to. G-Connect not only offers ADSL connectivity but the voucher can also be used to access 3G aswell as G-Connect WiFi hotspots with your phone.

To enter simply follow the instructions on the G-Connect Giveaway post, good luck to all.

Jay-Z’s new album “The Blueprint 3″ is about to be released and various of the tracks have supposedly been leaked to the internet before the official release.

Jay-Z’s most highly anticipated video “Run This Town” was leaked on the net a few days ago. The video Run This Town features the 3 heavy weights Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West.

If you are a big Jay-Z fan here is the video for your enjoyment.

You can get hold of the new Jay-Z album The Blueprint 3 from outlets from the 11th of September.

We here at iGeek believe in driving broadband prices down in South Africa, and thats exacly what the guys at G-Connect is doing at the moment.

A while back I wrote  a article on G-Connect’s great pricing. G-Connect currently offers the lowest price for carry over ADSL data in South Africa at only 4.9c per Megabyte, and the best part is you can use your one account for wifi, 3G and ADSL.

The guys at G-Connect have been very kind and donated two R50 G-Connect vouchers for me to give away. To enter simply reply to this post or retweet the following on twitter “@diekloon @G_Connect Win a G-Connect Voucher with iGeek and G-Connect http://bit.ly/N01RH”

For more information regarding G-Connect’s great offerings visit their website.