You can now download the PriceCheck Barcode Scanner Application from the Android Market.  With nearly 7 million supported products with barcodes, the PriceCheck Barcode Scanner app provides realtime product and pricing for users. The PriceCheck Barcode Scanner is a handy tool supplying you with comparative offers from online shops based on a brick-and-mortar in-store product you are interested in. The application uses your phone’s camera and scans any product barcode typically found on its packaging. The barcode scanner sends this code to the PriceCheck system which searches its database for a...

You can now download the PriceCheck Mobile Application, which is a Web Icon type of application, onto to your Android smartphone to reside alongside all your other applications, for your convenience! This will open up the PriceCheck Mobile Website directly on your Android smartphone. The PriceCheck Mobile Application can be installed on all Android smartphones using  Android OS versions 2.1 and higher. You can download and install the application via the Android App Market with your Android smartphone connected to the Internet. To do this, open this link and follow the instructions from there. Within...

Yesterday was a historic day for Google as they announced the acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billion.  The total cost of the purchase is the biggest ever made by Google and close to a third of the total cash that they have in their war chest with which to make acquisitions. The acquisition was unexpected but according to various media reports negotiations have been going on for close to 5 weeks.  Google have added 19000 people to their payroll, if the acquisition is not blocked by regulators in the US. The move was done in my opinion for one reason: patents. Google was unsuccessful in...

Redmond in California is a hive of activity at the moment. Microsoft, the desktop darling is trying to re-engineer itself into a company that is relevant and at the forefront of mobile technology. Regular readers will know that I am doubtful about the company as I believe there is no single fix for this corporate monster. The lack of proper leadership (Sorry Mr Ballmer) and the continuing belief that desktop computing is the only computing industry worth investing in has significantly crippled Microsoft. Let’s not kid ourselves. Microsoft has a war chest in terms of finance and if properly...

BlackBerry is in trouble and I mean big trouble. I might be clutching at straws but I sense the Canadian smart phone giant is in an “all-in” mode with its Playbook tablet. Cue the death march, maybe but I sense all is not well. In South Africa at the moment, BlackBerry is the fastest growing smart phone manufacturer. It does not need too much analysis to understand the growth. BlackBerry Internet Services and the fact that subscribers potentially don’t have to pay data fees have seen brisk adoption by the South African public. However, the same could not be said of their international numbers....