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TECHNOLOGY FEATURES
The Hills Have Eyes
It wasn't that long ago when I was curled into the fetal position, crying softly into a couch pillow.
Steal this album!
Have you heard of the new Green Day album? It's a fabulous collaboration between the punksters and a host of other music acts. Listen to the trio jam with Oasis and U2. But it's not legal. James Francis investigates the internet mash-up music scene.
Nokia launches its Nseries
Nokia showed up on the radar a few days ago when it confirmed that the Ngage isn't going to see an update in the near future, casting doubt on the phone's future existence. But that's largely because Nokia is eying the potential of the smart phone market. So it went into the woods and found the juiciest convergence buck to strap over its hood.
SA broadband - how will it grow?
Despite the animosity towards Telkom and its broadband business practices — which includes deceptive advertising featuring online gaming and video, but at the same time shaping accounts to prohibit using these services at optimum speeds — the South African broadband market is set to double in the next year.
The 360 launches...
Incredible disaster or huge success? There are two ways to view how the 360 has done when it launched recently. At a glance the problems associated with the launch seem paramount. Hardware defects such as over-heating units, lack of stock and an average launch line-up for titles might seem like big issues, but are they?
New journalism for a new age
Blogging has been touted as a new form of journalism by the web savvy and criticised as inaccurate and biased hogwash by traditional media. But one man is not only proving the former, he's also showing up the latter with a body of work that takes you where no newspaper or network news channel has gone before.
Hacking the consumer
SonyBMG has caused outrage by configuring some of its CDs to install anti-piracy software — using techniques straight out of the hackers' guidebook. James Francis investigates.
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JAMES FRANCIS
Biography
A writer for NAG and SA Computer Magazine, James Francis has done quite well with no formal training in journalism.
While stories about technology and games pay the rent, his real passion lies in new grounds: the bleeding edge of Internet culture, the finge, the taboo and anything that seems worth telling people about.
Touring Mosambique and explaining to readers just how you remove a land mine sounds like a good story. As technology explodes, it affects our cultures drastically. James likes sitting on the cusp of the chaos and staring into the abyss.
To read more from James Francis visit www.gabbahead.com.
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GAME REVIEWS
Tomb Raider Legend
How do you define a legend? It's a loaded word, so there was undoubtly a lot of debate over calling the next, and potentially final, Tomb Raider game exactly that.
Quake IV
Q4 has stunning visuals and is fun, but you soon get the feeling that you've seen all of this before...
Call of Duty 2
War shooters have always had a special place for me. Much like comics fantasizing WW2, novels glorifying it and movies creating heroes out of Eastwood and Wayne. Ironically there is a quote in Call of Duty 2 that says war is entertaining to those who haven't experienced it. Perhaps that why war fields make for such great games- they combine the innocence of entertainment with the intensity of the event.
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