Rumor about DStv launching a Pay Per View service started late last year and the rumor was recently confirmed when DStv amended their Terms and Conditions and added clauses under the heading BoxOffice Service.

Since then DStv have slipped up a few times, with some DStv PVR owners saying that the BoxOffice menu has showed up on their PVR’s but was quickly removed. DStv BoxOffice will be South Africa’s first online Video On Demand service, allowing users to rent the latest Hollywood blockbuster movies for an unconfirmed nominal fee of R29 per movie. The service will make use of the current DStv satellite infrastructure and be available to DStv PVR at no additional cost, except to paying for the movie rental.

Well know television journalist, Thinus Ferreira, has reported that DStv PVR owners will be able to pay for their DStv BoxOffice movie rentasl either by Credit Card or it can be charged to their DStv account, multichoice has however not confirmed this.

According to an invitation I received last night, Multichoice will be rolling out the red carpet and welcome DStv BoxOffice – South Africa’s first video on demand service on the 21st of July 2011. It is still unclear whether the BoxOffice service will be activated on that night, but hopefully PVR owners will be able to use the service from 22 July 2011.

Users of the popular VoIP and messaging service Skype are reporting that they are unable to make use of the service, this comes only weeks after Microsoft bought Skype for an amount of $8.5 Billion.

With the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft many users raised concern that Microsoft will somehow screw thing up for the service, and it seems like they have indeed.

Twitter are being flooded with messages of users complaining about Skype being down, although unconfirmed it seems that it is only the Windows versions that are affected by the downtime, with some Mac and iOS users reporting that it’s working fine.

The errors occurs everytime users open up Skype, they are then greeted with a Windows error message saying ‘Skype has stopped working’ and asking them if they would like to close the program.

It seems that the Skype website are also affected with either timeouts or very slow loading times.

[UPDATE]

How to fix the Skype crash error http://on.fb.me/m81ORU

It’s no secret that when it comes to innovation and setting standards in the local broadband market, MWEB is at the forefront. MWEB, the company that revolutionised uncapped Internet in South Africa, has now gone and done another first in South Africa by upgrading all 512k customers to 1Mbps.

This news comes after rumours have been doing the rounds that Telkom will be doing away with their 512k ADSL lines and upgrading all customers to 1Mbps, however no promises have been made by Telkom as to when the switchover will happen.

MWEB has taken the lead, and from today the 512k option will be obsolete from their product line. MWEB will be upgrading all current 512k customers to 1Mbps speeds at no extra cost and the new 1Mbps uncapped products will also be priced the same as the previous 512k products.

Users that are already on a 1Mbps data only option will get a price reduction and from now on only pay R299pm, while the new 1Mbps All Inclusive package will be priced at R599pm.

Vodacom, Saturday opened up its new 43.2 Mbps network for business by enabling more than a 1000 base stations with the new technology.

Vodacom’s new SuperMobile network is a dual carrier double speed HSPA+ network offering speeds of up to 43.2 Mbps.

Speaking about this new technology, CEO Pieter Uys said: “If something half the speed was already fast, this we should call this new technology superfast.  Having said that, the SuperMobile experience isn’t about theoretical peak speeds only achievable in laboratories.  We’re much more interested in how this technology increases network capacity and supports our goal of giving a decent connection speed to everyone in South Africa.”

Uys added: “We’ve actually had the technology up and running for some time but we wanted to have a critical mass of at least 1000 base stations before flipping the switch to allow consumers access at up to double the speed.  We wanted to make sure that we had the service available in more than just one city.”

Users wanting to make use of the new SuperMobile 43.2 Mbps network can obtain compatible modems from Vodashops for under R1400 or alternatively get them for free on certain data contracts.

Vodacom will continue to roll out the new double speed HSPA+ network aggressively across South Africa, with the expected enabled base stations to double in the coming months.

Yesterday Apple reseller Digicape unexpectedly announced that they will be dropping the prices of all first generation iPads by as much as R600 for the 3G versions, now Core Group, official Apple distributor in South Africa has also announced that they are dropping the prices of all first generation iPads.

The reduction in iPad prices from Core Group will mean that all retailers selling the first generation iPads, including iStores and Deon Wired, will likely also drop their prices like Digicape did yesterday, and this just makes one wonder even more whether or not we will see the iPad 2 in South Africa sooner than we think.

When the iPad 2 was launched last week I predicted how much your second hand, first generation iPad, will be worth and with these new price reductions my prediction is starting to become true.

The new iPad prices announced by Core Group seem to be in line with that what Digicape released yesterday.

South African online Apple retailer DigiCape has reduces the prices of their first generation iPads by as much as R600 for the WiFi+3G version.

DigiCape has just announced on Twitter that they have slashed the prices of all their first generation iPad’s by R500 for the WiFi only version and R600 for the WiFi+3G version of the iPad 1.

The price reduction comes just days after Apple announced the iPad 2, the latest generation iPad with a dual core CPU, 9 times faster graphics and front and rear facing cameras.

Here are the latest DigiCape iPad Prices:

The prices are still a bit on the expensive side, but it does make it more affordable for someone to own a tablet, could this sudden drop in price mean the iPad 2 is on its way to South Africa?

With the release of Google Buzz a few weeks ago, there was one question in the back of my mind that kept popping up and that was who was going to develop the first Google Buzz application and for what platform?

I am glad to report that my favourite mobile OS, Google Android, is the first to claim the title of having the first Google Buzz App.

Ironically one would have thought that Google would have been the first company to release an fully fledged Google Buzz application, but I guess they had their hand full with the privacy issues on Buzz.

Buzzoid is the creation of developer Arno Den Hond, the same guys that developed the Support Haiti application. The application is still in its early alpha stages but allows Buzz users to post and comment away on they Android phones, the only downside being you can only manually add buddies at the moment.

Buzzoid currently has two versions available, a free version and a paid for version, only difference being that the paid for version has no advertisements.

Scan the QR code above to get your hands on Buzzoid for your Android phone.

For some other nice Google Android Applications click here

Our favourite Web Addict is at it again and this time he is giving away the Samsung S5233 aka Samsung Star.

The Samsung Star S5233 is a full touch screen mobile phone. The Samsung Star comes with the latest multimedia features in a slim compact design with a nice 3″ WQVGA full-touch screen and Samsung’s TouchWiz User Interface with Mobile Widgets, the phone enables its users to enjoy their mobile easily and intuitively.

The Samsung Star S5233 also features impeccable social networking integration ensuring that you will always outshine the rest wherever you are. It has a 3.2 mega pixel camera and hyper qwerty keyboard for ease of input.

The internet functionality in the Samsung Star S5230 includes email with POP3 / SMTP / IMAP4 configuration support. The connectivity is supported with Bluetooth, WAP, USB, SyncML(DS) and PC Sync Application. The QWERTY soft keyboard with handwriting software makes sending email and sending messages a nice experience.

Great news is that you now have the chance to win the Samsung Star S5233, to get your hand on the Samsung Star visit WebAddict(s); and follow the instructions.

This morning while posting something on Facebook I noticed a new popup that grabbed by attention. It was a small lock next to the share button and upon clicking it I discovered some real handy new privacy settings.

You now have the choice to customize with who you would like to share certain statuses or links you post. A nice addition is the fact that you can customize it to a degree where you can only allow a selected few friends to see the status or link, or disallow a selected few friends from seeing it.

This sure is a great feature and one that was needed a long time ago. I see the ladies gossiping even more now via Facebook.

Do you find yourself wondering how it feels to be a world-famous golfer trying to outrun your homicidal wife while she’s trying to bash your brains in with the tool of your trade? Well now you can find out, with this Tiger Woods flash game. Try to outrun your super-hot spouse without hitting anything in the road. Or, you can just have fun running over babies until she catches you.

Tiger Woods gets caught again with his mistress and needs your help in escaping an angry golf swing from his wife Elin Nordegren.