So Charlie Sheen has just been WINNING all over the Internet with his Tigerblood, check out this song of Charlie Sheen WINNING all the way!

Yes the owner of the browser that is every web developers greatest nightmare want to kill it, or at least bring its usage down to a mere 1% world wide.

The company has decided to move on and in an attempt to get people to upgrade their browsers, have introduced a new campaign called IE6 Countdown. The IE6 Countdown website states that “10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye“.

The website’s aim is to encourage people to spread the word and help them upgrade their browsers to the latest standards compliance browsers available on the market, obviously they are pushing for users to upgrade to IE9 but I guess its still better than to deal with IE6.

The IE6 Countdown site display statistics about world wide IE6 usage that currently amounts to 12% of all browsers being used online. Out of that 12% world wide IE6 usage, South Africa contributes 8.4% of the total IE6 usages online.

For more information regarding the IE6 Countdown campaign visit http://ie6countdown.com and help spread the word, there are some tips to help you educate friends and acquaintances regarding not using IE6.

Roaming has always been a hot topic of discussion, specially since we have heard allot lately about people going overseas and then coming back to find a cellphone bill amounting to R45 000+ for while they were out of country.

What most people don’t know is that Roaming works a bit different than normal cellphone calls and messaging in their own country, as you also pay for incoming calls and messages even if you don’t pick up your phone, but MTN is about to change that with the introduction of a new seamless roaming innovation.

MTN has announced their seamless roaming innovation that gives MTN prepaid, topup and postpaid customers access to free incoming calls and messages when traveling in the South and East Africa region (SEA).

“We realise our customers sometimes do not want to roam or even receive incoming calls due to the costs associated with doing so. Now, with free incoming calls on offer, MTN is empowering its customers to roam with ease,” says Serame Taukobong, Chief Marketing Officer at MTN South Africa.

Although this is a step in the right direction there are still some aspects that remain very expensive when roaming, like data charges for instance. MTN charges 25c per 25KB of data usage in the SEA region which equates to more than R10 per Megabyte, meaning updating a few statuses online and viewing a photo or two could easily send your cellphone bill sky high.

The introduction of the new seamless roaming from MTN also means that prepaid and topup users do not have to register or pay any fees to activate their roaming when traveling to any of the SEA countries, but postpaid customers will have to apply for roaming access and a deposit may be required.

Last night Steve Jobs unveiled the all new Apple iPad 2 to the world and suddenly you just realize that your now old iPad seems so old and outdated.

Well thats how I felt when I followed the announcement online, and suddenly I started wondering how much is my iPad worth now that the iPad 2 has been released?

I was not the only one thinking that, with thousands of Apple enthusiasts setting out to the web to sell their beloved iPads to get some extra cash for the new iPad 2 set to be available from 11 March 2011.

For South Africans that bought their iPad’s overseas the chances that you get anything near what you paid for it, is wishful thinking, seeing as the iPad was only launched a month ago here in South Africa priced really aggressively.

Online classifieds sites like Gumtree is plastered with ads of people wanting to sell their iPads this morning, with most of them still trying their hand at pushing the price at what you would pay for a new iPad in-store.

With apple pricing the new iPad 2 exactly the same as the older version and dropping the price of the iPad to clear out stock, I am sad to say that your iPad is now probably not worth more than R2500 for the 16GB WiFi version. South Africans won’t necessarily see any price drops for the iPad in retails stores until the iPad 2 has been officially launched locally.

Apple has just announced the release of the Apple iPad 2 with its new dual core A5 processor, front and rear facing cameras, 9 times faster graphics and new smart cover technology.

Check out this video showcasing everything the iPad 2 has to offer.

Apple has finally unveiled the much speculated iPad 2, and Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, even made a surprise appearance despite him being on sick leave. Lets be honest, an Apple announcement would not be an Apple announcement without Jobs being on stage introducing the latest Apple gadget.

So lets get to the point, the all new Apple iPad 2 packs a brand new processor called the ARM Cortex-A5 which is a dual core processor that uses the same power as the older A4 CPU and achieving double the speed. The CPU also enables the iPad 2 to deliver graphics performance that are 9 times faster then the previous iPad while maintaining the 10 hour battery life like in the previous model.

One of the most requested features for the iPad 2 must been cameras, and Apple did not fail in that department adding a front and rear facing cameras to the iPad 2.

When it comes to size the iPad 2 comes in at 33% thiner then its predecessor, only 8.8mm thick and weighing a mere 560 grams.

The new iPad 2 will also be able to output video at 1080p full HD through a new HDMI adapter that can be bought separately, allowing you to mirror your content from your iPad 2 onto your HD Television.

The iPad 2 will also feature new built in magnets enabling for a new kind of cover, smart cover, that simply clips on magnetically to the device, the covers will also automatically put the iPad 2 in and out of sleep mode depending on whether you open of close the lid.

The best thing about the iPad 2 has to be the price, priced exactly the same as the iPad from $499 for the 16GB WiFi version. The iPad 2 will ship on March 11th 2011 in the US and then March 25th 2011 to an additional 26 countries.

Unfortunately South Africa is not included in the listed countries to get the iPad 2 first, but if the pricing is anything to go by hopefully the iPad 2 will be priced exactly the same as the iPad. The question still remains is when we will see the iPad 2 in South Africa, seeing as we only saw the launch of the iPad here a mere month ago.

So there I was heading over to Ster Kinekor site to check out what was showing to be greeted with what at first glanced looked like a hacked site.

Seems that Ster Kinekor is selling out heavily to South African auction site Smokoo, plastering a bright green ad all over the site dominating the Ster Kinekor site itself. Have a look at the screen shot below.

What I don’t get is why a business like Ster Kinekor would resort to advertisements on their site of this scale, over empowering what their site should be used for eg. looking up movie show dates and information, and booking tickets.

What do you think? Is Ster Kinekor perhaps so much cash strapped that they would resort to ugly advertisements like this smokoo one dominating their whole site for an extra buck?

So this is my story, I go to MTN the other day to take out a Cellphone contract for my wife on what we believed was a prepaid number, seeing as we bought the simcard more than 5 years ago and has since been using it to make calls and top up just like you would do with a normal pre-paid sim, just to find out that we cant take out a contract as the number belongs to a company called CELL2CELL.

So I then I remembered that my mother in-law took out a recurring monthly airtime contract on that number a few years back that tops up the number with R50 airtime every month, now this was almost 4 years ago and nobody notified us that the number would become the property of CELL2CELL. Today I tried to port the number to MTN from CELL2CELL and was simply told the number does not belong to me and I can’t get it back.

After numerous phone calls I got hold of CELL2CELL and soon as I mentioned porting the lady quickly, without hesitating, referred me to a very arrogant manager called Mark, clearly sounding like they are used to dealing with extorting clients on a daily basis out of their cellphone numbers. It seems that CELL2CELL automatically took ownership of the number without my wife’s consent and then continued to automatically renew the 2 year subscription without even contacting her or my mother in-law.

Surely this must be unlawful in some way? I know the new consumer protection act would avoid this from happening, but there has to be a way to get back the number.

I have searched the web and have come across a number of similar complaints regarding CELL2CELL not wanting to release cellphone numbers of clients.

Now my question is how can CELL2CELL take ownership of my wife’s number without her consent? And how can they automatically renew a contract on her number when she has clearly not given them any permission to do so?

And its not just CELL2CELL I hold responsible here, its also MTN who provides services to crooks like CELL2CELL, and the stores that provide cellphone services through CELL2CELL.

Next time you see a great offer in a store stay as far away as possible, not even when someone calls you claiming to be MTN, Vodacom, or Cell C, rather go to their stores and deal directly with them.

Naspers owned pay TV operator MultiChoice has announced that effective 1 April 2011, many of its bouquets on DStv will see a price increase.

MultiChoice informed their customers that their monthly subscription fees will increase from 1 April 2011. “Wherever possible, the increases have been kept to a minimum,” said Fathima Ebrahim, MultiChoise spokesperson.

Three bouquets are effected by the price increase namely DStv Premium, DStv Compact and DStv Select. PVR acces, DStv Mobile, DStv North and South Indian, PVR add on, DStv Lite, DCC, ZEE TV and DStv Portuguesa rates all remains unchanged.

The new DStv prices are as follows:

The question now remains is when is enough enough? MultiChoice are clearly making large margins of profits from its DStv offering with it having been the only Pay TV operator in South Africa for long and still having exclusive broadcast rights to certain sporting events leaving fans with no other choice then to cough up.

There is however a glimmer of hope for the non sport fans in the form of TopTV.

The video for Lady Gaga’s new hit song Born This Way premiered exclusively on US video site Vevo yesterday.

The video for Born This Way, which can be seen above, premiered exclusively on US video site Vevo, the video has also been uploaded to YouTube and already had a staggering 600 000 views in less than 24 hours.

Lady Gaga with her new single Born This Way has already been crowned the queen of iTunes with it becoming the fastest selling single on the Apple iTunes Store selling more than 1 million copies of the song in just 5 days. Its just YouTube this queen of pop still has to conquer as she currently only has the number two spot for most viewed video just behind Justin Bieber.

Who knows Lady Gaga just might have what it takes with the new Born This Way video to take the number one spot on YouTube.