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Google Street View launches in South Africa

Tuesday, 08 June 2010 09:57 Written by Anthony

Google Street View launched it's services in South Africa today, making available photographic views of most popular streets within the major metropolitan areas.

Just in time for the 2010 soccer world cup, it is no coincidence that Google has released this functionality today.

Visit Google Maps, search your address, and then drag the orange icon above the zoom bar onto your street.

A 3D interface with photographic views of your street will appear on screen.

Introducing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.

Friday, 21 May 2010 08:12 Written by Lara Aucamp

Television is one of the world's favourite entertainment devices. In fact, the average American spends about 5 hours per day watching Television. But Televisions lacks the ability of finding and accessing interesting content whenever you want. Television lacks the web. Or... well.. television used to lack the web. That is, until yesterday, when Google TV launched.

YouTube South Africa goes live

Monday, 17 May 2010 15:56 Written by Lara Aucamp

Today, video-sharing website YouTube launched their South African YouTube service (http://www.youtube.co.za).

According to Google, “YouTube South Africa makes it even faster and easier for local users to find and view the videos most relevant to them, by tuning search and discovery algorithms such as featured videos and homepage and category spotlights.”

Adobe gets a word in on Flash

Thursday, 13 May 2010 10:45 Written by Lara Aucamp

Apple's release of the iPad without Flash left a lingering question regarding the future of Flash. Will Flash share the same fate as Microsoft Silverlight and Java, which also doesn't run on the iPhone or iPad? Some argue that HTML5 is the future of the web, but even if that might be the case, that future is probably still a few years away.

Here is what Adobe has to say in order to "set the record straight" on the future of Flash.

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