Archive for November, 2007

Xbox Summer Fest 2007

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

If you're going to be at the coast this festive season then you might want to catch some of South Africa's premier rock bands in action. The press release below has all the details about the Xbox Summer Fest 2007, however there are some pre-tour events being held at News ...

Uncapped local ADSL, not lekker

Friday, November 9th, 2007

Sometimes I wonder whether our local communications regulatory body has a clue or a backbone at all. When the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) eventually released their ADSL Regulations last year there was a requirement on local bandwidth which stated: Local bandwidth usage shall not be subject ...

Windows Live Tools CTP

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live, just announced on his blog the first CTP for a cool set of add-ins for Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code-named Orcas) for getting started with Windows Live in your own applications. Windows Live™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® are ...

Gears of War releases in South Africa

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

We all knew that Gears of War was coming to the Windows PC gaming platform and now its official. Yes it should be in stores later this week and will run on Windows XP and Windows Vista machines. One thing that is awesome about Games for Windows LIVE (basically ...