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Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.

Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she was 11 back in proper Netscape days and even found a way to get not one, but two degrees out it. She blogs with moderate regularity and tweets with alarming consistency and works tirelessly at memeburn.com.

Recent Posts

• Lumia 920 review: It’s big, it’s really big, but oh so sexy

  Turns out if you say "I haven't used a Windows Phone" loud enough someone will send you one. While floating about in my quasi-world of "I know everything imaginable because my iPhone is awesome" a giant Nokia Lumia 920 landed on my lap. I can't stress this enough -- this phone is big. I am not sure what Nokia was trying to do here -- take us back to the old days where phones were as big as a person's head? Design: ...
  
  

• Philips USB monitor review: average is a compliment

  I must say I am pretty happy that Philips decided to introduce an eco-friendly LED monitor into the market with the added ease of a USB connection. The days of clunky extra power cables need to be put behind us. Philips, when designing this monitor, thought about simplicity. It has no buttons and relies solely on the power of the computer it is plugged into. The USB monitor has a “special" low-power LED backlight and consumes approximately nine watts. According ...
  
  

• Ford launches developer programme to bring more apps to Sync [CES]

  Ford is taking its car tech quite seriously and the Detroit-based motoring giant wants you to have more fun in your vehicle. At CES, the company announced its new initiative, a developer programme for its in-car system Sync. This programme will allow developers to build apps for its Sync enable cars, currently the car-maker has added apps like Pandora and Google maps but it wants to expand the scope of the system, which was launched in 2007. "The Ford Developer Program ...
  
  

• iPhone 5 review: A class act

  Before we begin, I would like to make two things very clear: one, I am not an iDevice fan. Two, I love my Android phone. When the iPhone 5 arrived at Burn HQ, something interesting happened. I was asked to review it, the biggest iDevice critic in town. I should have and would have said no, but the device was placed in my palm and everything changed... This phone has been anticipated for so long that some doubted its existence. It was ...
  
  

• FIFA 13 smashing records with rocketing sales

  According to Electronic Arts Inc FIFA 13 is selling like hot cakes! In just five days the 2013 version of the football game has sold more than 4.5-million copies across all platforms worldwide. FIFA 13, which launched on 25 September in key countries, sold more than 1.23-million games in the first 48 hours in the United Kingdom making it the second video game franchise ever to sell more than one million units in the UK within a day. "FIFA ...
  
  

• Chinese gov’t cock-blocking the Nexus 7

  It seems that certain elements of the Chinese government aren't that eager for Google to launch its 7-inch tablet, the Nexus 7, in its territory, reports Digitimes. According to the report, sources in Taiwan, where the tablet is built, have revealed that the government is making things "difficult" for the Android device's launch, saying: "The China government's negative attitude is interpreted as a response to Google's announcement of withdrawing from the China market in March 2010, the sources pointed out. It ...
  
  

• Get out of town! SimCity World coming soon

  Ok, I know it's not Uncharted or God of War but I am having an "Ermergerd" moment at the new Simcity World trailer. SimCity the insanely popular city-building simulation video game Maxis has been revamped for architectural awesomeness. The objective of SimCity is simple, build and design a city. You can mark out specific areas such as commercial, industrial, or residential, add buildings, change the tax rate, build a power grid, build transportation systems and take many other actions, in ...
  
  

• FIFA 13: OMG I just died

  Remember when FIFA Street came out and we all nearly died from pure footballgasm? Wait until you see what FIFA 13 has in store for you. Just released, the trailer to the twentieth edition of colossally successful Electronic Arts' highly acclaimed association football FIFA video game series. If this trailer is anything to go by, the new game will be beyond insane with some awesome new game play features to enjoy! EA Games have been a little hush about FIFA 13 ...
  
  

• Reviewed: Galaxy S III — the only phone you will ever want

  When you pick up the successor to the best phone of the year in 2011, you expect something special. The minute we unboxed the Samsung Galaxy S III at Burn HQ, something special happened. The hallelujah chorus resounded and we all stared at the device that is sure to change our lives -- it is after all the most anticipated phone of the year. Overall design The Galaxy S III, as Samsung touts it, is "inspired by nature -- it sees, listens, ...
  
  

• Magic cube virtual keyboard: The future ain’t here [Review]

  Everyone wants a virtual keyboard and anyone who says otherwise is lying. Seriously, what could be cooler? When I got handed the virtual keyboard to review I squealed a little. My Matrixesque dreams were finally coming true. Since I was eight-years-old I have been waiting for hovercrafts and in-brain wireless technology. I feel technology is taking its sweet time to catch up with my ambitions. The virtual keyboard isn't the revolutionary tech I yearned for but it's a start. So ...
  
  

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