Soon after Samsung broke news that they will be introducing a tablet to the market called the Samsung Galaxy Tab, they aired their first commercial showing off what the Galaxy Tab is capable of doing. Watch out Apple, Samsung means business with the Galaxy Tab. I wouldn’t mind owning one of these.
Seems like Apple finally got some real competition for their iPad in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, a tablet running Android. Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Tab during an electronics fair in Berlin. Instead of calling it a tablet, Samsung is calling the Galaxy Tab a smart media device. The Galaxy Tab runs Android [...]
Being a web developer I work with different kinds of browsers all the time, and since Google Chrome was released there was no turning back to my previous favourite Firefox. Two years in and Google Chrome still does not disappoint. Since Google Chrome’s first beta release two years back the browser has come a long [...]
We have made it to the next round of the 2010 South African Blog Awards, I am saying we as I could not have made it without the support of everybody that nominated iGeek. A big thanks goes out to everybody that nominated iGeek for the South African Blog Awards, iGeek has been nominated in [...]
Cell C recently rebranded and rethink its strategy in the South Africa mobile space and made it clear that they are ready to take on the bigger cellphone operators MTN and Vodacom. With the relaunch of Cell C’s branding the company also announced that they will be launching a brand new 4G network capable of [...]
Africa has come a long way with regards to broadband, previously relying heavily on Satellite connections for Internet access the continent now has a multitude of undersea fibre cables serving it with access to high speed Internet. Some African countries like South Africa, Senegal, Ghana and Cameroon have already been making use of underwater fibre [...]
Last week the North Gauteng high court ruled that online gambling is now illegal in South Africa, however after that announcement Piggs Peak issued a statement that they will appeal the ruling and that all operations of the online casino will continue as normal. Since yesterday however Piggs Peak has shut down all operations issuing [...]
Remember a few month back when word first got out about Diaspora, the open source “Facebook Killer”? Well they guys behind Diaspora has been working hard and have set a date when they will release their code. The four NYU students have been coding away the past couple of months and at the beginning of [...]
YouTube has launched a whole new section on their site dedicated to full length movies. The new movies section on YouTube feature over 400 full length movies users can watch free of charge. This may just be part of Google’s plans to launch its WebTV set top box. The new section on YouTube does not [...]
It’s not often that I post some code here on iGeek, which is a pitty because coding is a real passion of mine specially PHP, but sometimes you just write something you need to share with your fellow enthusiasts. Here is a function I wrote in PHP that validates South African ID Numbers based on [...]
