The past Friday, Adobe created something resembling a firestorm due to the company asking users of their popular Creative Suite to pay money ($375) to upgrade to version 6. The problem is that the update was to resolve security vulnerabilities found in Creative Suite 5.5. The Adobe solution created an outrage on a variety of social media services and tech blogs that spread like a wild fire. Truth be told, patches and upgrades are something that is quite normal in the software world. The process is normally as follows: An issue is found; the developers of the software create a patch and then sends that...

When most of us think about printers, we think about an item that is stationary. You walk to the printer to collect the item that you have selected to print. If you do not own a printer, then the closest thing to a printer is a printing shop. In printing shops they are normally behind a counter bolted down by either locked wheels or bolts. The point I am trying to make is that printers in general are not mobile friendly. I have not even seen people walking around with a printer in the same sense as a notebook. It just does not look right. HP have unveiled the Office Jet 150 Mobile which aims to change...

Watch the latest product reviews by the PriceCheck team. 1. Hendrik on The Microsoft ARC Wireless Keyboard. http://youtu.be/CmYr5UQHS6I 2. Sennheiser HD215 Headphone...

This past week was historic but not in a good way for Nintendo. Nintendo announced a loss for the first time and this could be attributed to the effect that smart phones and tablets have on the console gaming industry. Nintendo has been facing decaying sales numbers for their consoles (Wii and 3DS) over the last few quarters. The fact that they made their first ever loss would definitely put more pressure on them to deliver something big and I mean BIG. Regular readers will be aware that Sony and Microsoft are also facing similar issues and it may continue. The problem is quite simple, not one of...

Apple has recently discovered that 600 000 of their users have computers that have been infected with a virus. Immediately the idea that Apple Mac’s are virus free goes out of the window. The “Flashback” virus according to Kaspersky originated on a series of WordPress blogs.  The virus was distributed as a Trojan hidden in a fake Adobe update. As soon as users click on the update,  the software is moved on to the users computer. The Flashback virus has most probably created a bot network. (A bot network consists of tens of thousands of compromised machines called drones or zombies that run...

The last few weeks have been very interesting for Microsoft, if you follow the company in the press. The Redmond based software behemoth has in a sense become more popular with the public and investors. Call it the tide shifting or a changing of the guard, but Microsoft is slowly gaining momentum. A certain company that has a very dominant search engine seems to be going in the direction of the “Old Microsoft.” Think about it for a minute. What is the one company most people that use computers “despise”? Microsoft through their dominance in software went through a period of time in which they...