Can like to take the next offramp

Fancy having Victor Matfield, captain of the Blue Bulls rugby team, direct you to business meetings?  How about shitting yourself when Pierre Spies tells you to take the next left? All this and more is now possible thanks to GPS manufacturer Tomtom who is making every blue-blooded Blou Bul supporter’s dreams come true with the special edition Blue Bulls TomTom Start GPS.

The package comes with a Blue Bulls skin and matching pouch, Road to Victory DVD and Blue Bulls start up and shut down screens. It is also preloaded with player’s voices for directions, including Victor Matfield, Pierre Spies, Morné Steyn and “The Twin” Akona Ndungane.

So if your blood is blue (and you know mine is), and you need a GPS, then look no further. Once the Bulls have won the Super 14 (come on, you know it’s going to happen) you can piss off all your Lions and Stormers-supporting friends by giving them lifts and letting Victor shout at them all the way home.

The Blue Bulls Tomtom Start goes for R1800 and will be available from the end of March.

Playstation Move ad shows up on Youtube

The Playstation Move is a new motion controller for the PS3 that Sony has developed to rival the Nintendo Wii controller and Microsoft’s controller-less Project Natal system for the Xbox 360. The Move has been ridiculed by some for the way it looks, but Sony’s first ad for the product turns the silly onto Nintendo and Microsoft with subtle mockery of Sony’s rivals. That said, the gameplay demonstrations in the ad look awesome – although I really prefer to be flat on my back on the couch when playing console games, so they whole… movement… is lost on me.

MWEB: “This is the real deal”

MWEB announced uncapped ADSL services for South Africa on Thursday. This sparked a flurry of questions and was met with some skepticism from SA’s more wary internet users who have dealt with claims like these in the past. After chatting to Andre Joubert, MWEB’s GM of its business division, however, I get the feeling that MWEB intends to provide truly uncapped services.

“We don’t want to promise a service like this and then not deliver it – people would just hate us all over again if we did that,” says Joubert. Read more »

New HTC models to hit SA on 12 April

New smartphones from HTC, including the Legend and Desire are schedule for launch in South Africa on 12 April 2010. These and a range of other new models from the Taiwanese manufacturer were announced at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona in February.

The Desire is comparable to the Nexus One, which is manufactured by HTC and sold by Google. There are still no plans to launch the Nexus One in SA, but the Desire is a practically identical phone with the same 3.7″ AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera and, most importantly, Android 2.1 operating system that you’ll find on the Nexus One. Read more »

Not another brick in the wall

After threatening to pull out of the People’s Republic following hacks on its systems, internet search giant Google is likely to make good on its warning and is preparing to shutdown its operations in China according to an insider at the company who spoke to the Wall Street Journal last week.

Google Search is one of the last major international internet services accessible in China after the government in that country banned Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and several other sites in 2009, making them inaccessible to local internet users. Read more »