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Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter

Nur is an enigma with a passion for creating words. He recently entered a love affair with technology and chorizo sausages. He travels a lot -- you catch him, if you can, at a Silicon Cape event every now and again.

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• Makerbot unveils 3D Scanner [SxSW]

  3D printing specialist MakerBot today announced the development of a new Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner prototype at South by Southwest Interactive. The MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner adds to MakerBot’s 3D Ecosystem that includes MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers, Thingiverse.com, MakerWare, MakerCare, and the apps inside Thingiverse. The 3D Scanner shown at SXSW is a prototype model and MakerBot will spend time testing, scanning, and printing in 3D the items scanned with it. “We are super excited ...
  
  

• Meet the Lumia 620: Nokia’s $249 WP8 powered smartphone

  Nokia unveiled its latest Windows Phone 8 offering at Le Web in Paris earlier today. The Finnish manufacturer says this newest addition to its smartphone lineup is designed to appeal to younger consumers. Key aspects in the 620's design has seen Nokia "softening the roundness and radius of the product" in an attempt to create a more tactile and organic feel, according to the company's Executive Vice President of Design, Marko Ahtisaari. Specs for the Lumia 620 include a 3.8-inch WVGA display ...
  
  

• Windows 8: The sound of awesome

  Sixteen-million beta testers, 1 year. That is what it took to build one of the most interactive, entertaining, integrated, secure, content first experiences Microsoft has ever released. And today is the day we have all been waiting for: Windows 8 is officially available. So let’s start at the beginning. Windows 8 is completely new, from the ground up. The first thing you will notice? Well, the awesome speed improvements. This new operating system will breathe new life into your ageing ...
  
  

• In honour of Jack Tramiel: the best 10 Commodore 64 games

  In honour of the passing of Commodore founder, Jack Tramiel, age 83, Gearburn compiled a top 10 list of our favourite C64 games. If these instill a sense of nostalgia, be sure to pick up a C64 emulator and download some of your favourite games from sites like Commodore Apocalypse. Elite -- The very template for 4X games, Elite is a genre on its very own. Sone Of Blagger -- A very decent Mario clone before Mario came into his own. Spy Hunter -- ...
  
  

• New BlackBerry 10 OS looks to be iOS, Android and Windows Phone mashup

  Going by new images that recently emerged of the BlackBerry 10 OS, RIM seems to be drawing design inspiration from all three major competing operating systems. The images come via a 14 page leaked document from one of RIM’s external ad agency partners and outlines some upcoming BlackBerry 10 features and advertising campaign ideas. The images show what appears to be BlackBerry 10 running on the Torch 9860 and 9810. Despite being showcased on two OS 7 devices, the BlackBerry 10 OS is widely ...
  
  

• Bangladesh releases $130 laptop

  First India unveiled a US$45 tablet. Now Bangladesh has unveiled an Android-powered US$130 laptop. This locally made laptop, like the uber-cheap tablet will hopefully bring advanced learning into even the most rural of areas. The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina released the Doel (meaning Magpie) at an unveiling ceremony in the capital city of Dhaka. Hasina said that by 2021, the Doel would help Bangladesh to become a middle-income nation. The Doel is the national bird of Bangladesh. Hasina said, "Every ...
  
  

• iOS5, iCloud: iSee the future

  Apple has announced some dramatic changes to the operating system of their iPhone, iPad and Touch devices. At the core of the new updates is iCloud, a new music-streaming and online data storage service that can be accessed on devices from the iPad to the iPhone. The announcements were made at Apple's Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco by Apple executives that included a frail-looking Steve Jobs. iCloud essentially demotes the role of the computer to "just another device". Users' data ...
  
  

• Android now second biggest smartphone platform after Nokia, says Gartner

  Google's Android mobile operating system surged past Apple's iPhone and RIM's Blackberry in the third quarter to become the second biggest smartphone platform after Nokia's Symbian, research firm Gartner said Wednesday. Gartner said Finland's Nokia sold 29.5 million smartphones during the third quarter of the year for a 36.6 percent share of the worldwide market, down from 44.6 percent a year ago. Sales of Android-powered smartphones soared to 20.5 million units, giving the Android platform a 25.5 percent market share, up from ...
  
  

• X-Box Live and Kinect available in SA from November

  After years of waiting, X-Box Live will be available to South African gamers in November, just in time for the Christmas shopping rush, according to a local X-Box focussed blog. While the offical X-Box website advertises that X-Box Live is fast, free and easy to join, this hasn't been the case for frustrated South African gamers looking to take part in multi-player gaming, and wanting to download extra content for games, connect with friends and much, much more. Robin Burrowes, a Product ...
  
  

• New iPhone 4 is Apple’s ‘biggest leap’

  Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed the new iPhone 4 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday evening, calling the redesigned gadget the "biggest leap" the company had taken since the launch of the first iPhone. After tech blog Gizmodo unceremoniously leaked pictures of the new iPhone prototype a few months ago, Jobs' was looking to turn up the hype. Jobs acknowledged the leak by saying: "Some of you have already seen this." Gizmodo failed to crack an invite ...