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ScotiaBank’s VISA Debit Card – Jamaica’s Online E-Commerce Renaissance

Posted by Lindsworth on January 23, 2012 | 0 Comment

Last year Christmas 2011AD must have left many a Jamaican in the New Year 2012AD dry as a bone, a financial state often expressed in the phrase “Tamarind Season”. With Ben Johnson Day aka the day before payday coming up on Thursday 26th January 2012AD, many a monthly salaried employee may be broke because they overspent on their Debit Card – or should I says Scotia VISA Debit... Read more »

Best of Geezam.com from 2011

Posted by Kelroy on December 23, 2011 | 0 Comment

Geezam.com was started in December 2009. Two years later the website has grown and evolved into one of the main Caribbean based technology blogs. 2011 was a good year for Geezam.com in which the team was expanded and though a more refined posting schedule the readership has increased. 2012 is looking like a year that will see a lot of activity in the technology sphere and Geezam.com... Read more »

StumbleUpon gets New Features and Complete Makeover

Posted by Kelroy on December 12, 2011 | 0 Comment

Lost in the sea of recent redesigns and announcements in the tech world from the likes of Amazon, Google, Nokia, Fourquare and so many others it seems that many (myself included) have missed the news that StumbleUpon has come out with a complete new look and feel to it’s website and service. What is StumbleUpon? For those who don’t know StumbleUpon is a social networking... Read more »

Chrome overtakes Firefox to Become World’s 2nd most Popular Browser

Posted by Kelroy on December 1, 2011 | 8 Comments

Web analytics firm StatCounter is reporting that as of Novermber 2011 Google Chrome has overtaken Mozilla Firefox to become the second most popular web browser worldwide behind Internet Explorer. Chrome has for months now been the only major browser experiencing growth as more and more users get attracted by it’s speed and features such as easily syncing bookmarks and separating each... Read more »

LIME Jamaica’s latest moves: Steps in the right direction?

Posted by Horace on November 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

I have had an interesting relationship with LIME over the last few years; from praises to criticisms, then more criticisms, then praises… One of the prime issues I have had with LIME is their tendency to pull and discontinue potentially killer promotions and services, it is like unveiling the latest long-ranged stealth 5th generation aircraft, unnerving your opponent with it to... Read more »

MiFi Hits Cayman thanks to Digicel and LIME

Posted by Shonari on November 4, 2011 | 0 Comment

With devices getting smaller and more internet ready, internet access on the go has been an issue here in the Cayman. Thankfully, Mobile ISP providers Digicel and LIME have heard the call and have both addressed the issue. Their answer was MiFi. MiFi (A clever acronym for Mobile Wifi) offers internet connectivity over the air for up to 5 wifi enabled devices at a time. So you can... Read more »

Steve Jobs: The Man of Millennium 2, Decade 1

Posted by Horace on October 31, 2011 | 0 Comment

I have been an arch critic of Steve Jobs and Apple on a whole, this stance was in it’s own right a byproduct of my former loyalty to Nokia and Symbian. Steve Jobs and Apple in my late admission, have been the force behind, both directly and indirectly, the destruction of Nokia and Symbian’s market share and market volume. It could be argued that Steve Jobs and Apple indirectly... Read more »

Sony aiming to get it right with the Playstation Vita

Posted by Kelroy on October 28, 2011 | 0 Comment

The playstation Vita is the successor to the Playstation Portable and while the PSP wasn’t a failure there are many things Sony got wrong with their first foray in the handheld market. Sony is aiming to get it right with the Playstation Vita while while leveraging the experience gained from the PSP. For starters the PSV is dripping with technology in the form of a quad core... Read more »

Galaxy Nexus – Ice Cream Sandwich goodness from Samsung and Google

Posted by Kelroy on October 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

Google and Samsung officially took the wraps off their new high end phone the Galaxy Nexus at an event held in Hong Kong today. The hardware specs and other information about the phone had been leaking all over the internet long before it’s official release but it was the stage demo of the new version of Android code named Ice Cream Sandwich that was truly remarkable. Android... Read more »

Dark Souls – A game that asks the player to prepare to die

Posted by Kelroy on October 12, 2011 | 0 Comment

For the last few days I have been playing Dark Souls, a fantasy RPG from Japan’s From Software. I was unable to play the spiritual successor Demon Souls because I was unable to get it locally and was drowned in a pile of new games that were released around the same time in 2009. I regret allowing it to slip through my fingers as although I watched many a trailer and gameplay... Read more »