This is the time in our lives as Software Developers when we get all excited about the next release of Visual Studio. Without a doubt, I must admit that Visual Studio has got to be one of my favorite Microsoft products.
Come 12th April, 2010 Microsoft will be making the latest version of its development tool [...]

Nokia today announced that it will now be offering version 3.03 and higher of Ovi Maps free forever. This is a welcome move the Finnish based mobile phone maker has made.
With an estimated 27 million users using their mobile handsets for GPS Navigation on both Walk-to and Drive-by navigation, this number would be expected to [...]

Michael “Monty” Widenius, the founder and creator of MySQL, who now runs Monty Program Ab has been for long battling hard to save MySQL from the impending rot it could suffer under the hands of Oracle.
The story goes that Oracle plans to acquire Sun Microsystems who apparently owns MySQL after purchasing it a few years [...]

It’s another Sunday evening, well actually its Monday morning right now. For those that know me you are probably thinking, well, that’s not so strange.
On my part I have to say that personally I am thinking this is quite strange. I still got hours to burn and I am not writing a single line of [...]

Now that Sobbayi.com 3.0 has gone live, I kinda feel relieved. It’s like a tonne of bricks has been lifted from the top of my head. After shutting down Sobbayi.com 2.0 earlier this year, I never thought this day would come. Back then I decided to just run my blog and leave it at that.
I [...]

Well its now been a couple of months since I did any meaningful maintenance on the main section of this website. I would attribute that to two main reasons. The first being I had a bit of developers block, or whatever we developers call it.
Secondly and I guess the real reason is basically I was [...]

Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services has been introduced by Nokia
It  has been designed to be as simple and convenient as making a voice call or sending an SMS. It will enable consumers to send money to another person just by using the person’s [...]

After waiting for years for Adobe to do something on the mobile front in terms of full fledged flash player, the light at the end of the tunnel has suddenly shone. I remember just a couple of weeks ago I was scouring the internet looking for a mobile compatible full flash player and I [...]

If the recent release of Ubuntu’s Jaunty Jackalope is anything to go by then Karmic Koala is definitely going to live up to its name. Speaking of Names, where do these guys come up with these names? Anyway Ubuntu has announced that its next release is expected in October later this year.
Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu’s founder [...]

This is another one of the tech stories that is managing to pull out a lot of mixed reactions from all corners. Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems better know for its java programming language came agreement to acquire Sun for $9.50 per share.
This deal came after IBM pulled out of talks to buy Sun. This [...]