Audio and video podcasts are nothing new but recently there has been a boom in the number of good quality technology podcasts coming out of South Africa. From serious business-focused podcasts to geek talkshows there are at least four worth checking out.
ZATech Show
http://zatech.co.za/
The granddaddy of SA podcasts, the ZATech show is now well past its 100th show and continues to be highly e ...
Need to get up to speed with NetBeans? The good news is that SA company Jumping Bean has teamed up with Munich-based Eppleton, to offer a NetBeans training series.
NetBeans is an open source development environment for creating Java applications.
Mark Clarke of Jumping Bean tells us that the courses will be held in Johannesburg and Cape Town between 23 August and 3 September. The courses wil ...
If you take the time to read the South African government's free and open source software policy (PDF) you'll find on page three the following commitment:
The South African Government will encourage the use of Open Content and Open Standards within South Africa.
So, if that is the case, then how come the Companies and Intellectual Properties Registration Office (CIPRO) demands that visitors use ...
What better way to contribute to free and open source software than to help translate applications into your home language?
Anloc, the African Network for Localisation, has put out a call for language teams to do exactly this. The organisation's Localise Software sub-project aims to finalise these teams by the end of the month with translation beginning in earnest from August and running throug ...
A year after it was first announced, the South African department of education yesterday kicked off its teacher laptop initiative. The initiative aims to subsidise teachers so that they can purchase a laptop from one of the department's approved suppliers.
It's a welcome addition to the education arena except for one detail.
Despite a national open source strategy and a well-publicised set o ...
In huge win for anti-software patent activists, New Zealand has announced that it will not change legislation to make software patentable in the country.
It is, however, a partial victory only as New Zealand's Commerce minister, Simon Power, also announced he would instruct the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand to draft guidelines that would allow inventions that contain software (emb ...
The US State Department has thrown its weight behind an initiative to promote software development for the good of East African residents.
The Apps 4 Africa contest was launched earlier this month and aims to encourage developers to produce software that will improve the quality of life for residents of this region.
The contest is open to all developers from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzani ...
CMS-Maestro is a new PHP-based content management system (CMS) released by South African Web development company Valente Online.
Easy to install and use, CMS-Maestro offers the basics such as page and article management and adds to that the ability to add additional widgets, and manage menus and a range of media formats. In a release the company says that "CMS-Maestro is built with extensibilit ...
Linux giant Red Hat has announced that Linux System Dynamics (LSD), an open source consulting firm, has been appointed a Red Hat Premier Business Partner for the Southern Africa region.
Red Hat Premier Business Partners are top-tier Red Hat partners, who have demonstrated expertise in the Red Hat product portfolio and have met the stringent technical, sales and training requirements specified b ...
A week later than originally scheduled, the FreeBSD team has issued a first release candidate (RC1) for version 8.1 of its popular Unix-like operating system.
The final release of FreeBSD 8.1 was scheduled for July 9 bit with the current delay that may be pushed out by a week.
Major changes include improvements to Solaris ZFS support and added support for superpages, a new USB stack and a re ...
VLC, the Swiss army knife of multimedia viewing, has released a new version. Already a top-class video player VLC 1.1.0 adds a number of new goodies, including WebM support and GPU-decoding.
The highlights:
GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2
DSP decoding using OpenMax IL, for compatib ...
Dell today confirmed that it was in talks with Google to ship Chrome OS on its netbooks.
The company's president of Greater China and South Asia, Amit Midha, said that Dell devices were in development although he didn't add any detail.
Google's Chrome OS is a Linux-based web-focused operating system that is intended for ultra-portable laptops. Google is expected to release Chrome OS later th ...
