Posted by Ingrid Riley on June 18th, 2010
Digicel launched a new online game – the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza – for the over 184,000 fans on the Digicel Facebook fan page two weeks ago and to date it has had over 50,000 plays. The goal of the Flash based game that was developed by PanMedia- is to try to place ten BlackBerry smartphones in a holster in fifty seconds or less to qualify to move on to the next round. In round two, fans are faced with a maze of BlackBerry, Digicel, math and word-related multiple-choice questions. Players in the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza have a chance to win daily and weekly prizes of Digicel call credits and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphones. To date Digicel’s Facebook fan Page has over 180,000 Fans, the largest so far of any Caribbean Brand.
Popularity: 34% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on May 11th, 2009
Maybe they’re being inspired by the success of Craigslist.org, the most successful online classifieds site online at this time. Craigslist.org, is pretty much the largest classifieds ad site in the world, the 7th most visited site in the USA, that generates more than 600 million free classified listings a year, makes between US$80-100m USD a year for charging modest fees for real estate and job listings in certain cities. Maybe it’s because there are still no dominant,household brand of a classifieds site as yet in Jamaica and entrepreneurs believe one is needed and is attempting to fill that gap. Whatever the reason there has been another recent flurry of free classified sites launched in the last 60 days.
Popularity: 11% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 23rd, 2009
I am not a fan of Hi5.com at all,since signing up about a year ago, but hey that’s just me. They seem to be heading in the direction of reinvention. They’re going virtual. Read more. Because Facebook is the largest, fastest-growing network in the world, a big question is what other social networks are going to do to compete. Hi5, with approximately 60 million monthly unique visitors, is in the process of making itself an “immersive social environment” that includes virtual goods, avatars, games, instant messaging and a 3-D world geared at older teens worldwide. The company plans to make money off of virtual goods — not traditional online advertising. More
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 16th, 2009
I’ve never been much of a gamer, Scrabulous aka Wordscraper and Pacman is as far as I go really, but I’ve got an itch for the Wii, that I believe I’ll definitely scratch. But it seems I’m just a toops late, since nearly 10.17 million Americans bought a Wii in 2008, according to The NPD Group, and there are more than 15 million Wii consoles in U.S. homes right now. Also in 2008, another 9.95 million bought the Nintendo DS portable system. Now while I’ll definitely find time for the mind mumba that is WordScraper, it looks like Wii could become king of my living room.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 16th, 2009
Apple has revealed – via a massive banner on its homepage – that the App Store has surpassed 500 million downloads. The company noted that it had reached 300 million downloads back on December 5th, meaning that 200+ million apps have been downloaded in just 5 weeks. The homepage ad also indicates that there are now more than 15,000 apps available.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on March 9th, 2008
Having been born,bred and Mac fed since 1994 I bought my midrange MacBook in New York last December at the Apple store. The sucker died on me on Friday. I became confused,pissed then calm when I found the receipt I kept.
It turns out that the logic board is toast but I can get all my data has been recovered execpt the tonnes of email I tend to save. Funny this is what happened to my iBook a few years go, but I didn’t keep the receipt and then,there was no authorised and certified Apple service provider in Jamaica. I head back to New York end of this month for client business, so you know I am going back into the store calm, smiling and demanding a completely new replacement…thank God the warranty is in place.
Yeah I know it’s a machine and things do happen, but you know how we Mac addicts can be about our babies, we do not expect flaws, we demand the impossible…perfection. I am writing this on a borrowed iMac until my new baby is once again home with me. *sniff* *sniff*
Popularity: 3% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 20th, 2008
According to Man-about-town, Robert X. Cringely, Samsung is readying not one, but two separate Android-based phones, one of which is due in September, with another model following around Christmas. If you believe what you read (and what his tipster says), these phones will not be labeled Samsung, rather they will be released as Google-branded gPhones. More here
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 19th, 2008
Gadget Tuesdays- The HTC Touch Cruise is sleek, stylish, and compact. It has a 2.8 inch LCD gives you an excellent multimedia experience in a mobile device. The HTC has a TouchFLO interface,which means you can use your fingers to quickly browse through e-mails, web pages, messages, music, and images, making navigation a breeze.Live HTC Home screen displays real-time data including weather updates, a large clock, anapplication launcher provides easy access to favorite programs. The dynamic 3D Touch Cube interface (part of TouchFLO) enables you to quickly call contacts, open applications, listen to music, and browse media files.It also has Built-in GPS functionality and the included software enable you to find the fastest route to your direction, locate restaurants and services on the way(where available). The Touch Cruise also features a 3-megapixel camera and second VGA camera for video calling (where supported by your carrier). Additionally, the Touch Cruise comes can give you up to 7 hours talk time. Finally, the Touch Cruise is quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G, enabling it to take full advantage of global 3G including AT&T’s HSDPA network in the US. source.If you liked this post, why not Subscribe and get Silicon Caribe Today by Email
Popularity: 20% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 19th, 2008
Gadget Tuesdays- Asian food meets USB technology. Never again will you have to choose between having sushi or having a USB memory drive–thanks to the USB sushi drive. These USB drives are hand-made-in-Tokyo sushi replicas. The convincing USB sushi drive comes in several flavors. And no we’re not kidding. source.
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Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on February 18th, 2008
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking after you read that headline. You probably said to yourself, but the iPhone hasn’t officially reached Jamaica in fact the Caribbean as yet.
Popularity: 1% [?]
Posted by Ingrid Riley on January 8th, 2008
by Dre. Allyuh.com
After having covered Brian Lara and his international video game, Pressure PLay you’d think that would be it. Well now if you want to play Cricket on your PC or All Fours Online you can easily do so.
All Fours Online
An online version of a popular local card game, it attempts to bring the authenticity and familiarity of all fours to the computer screen by allowing the different online modes of all fours and all twos, utilizing the familiar rules and scoring with the ultimate animation of hangjack included.
Features being worked on for future version include the ability to form teams and instant messaging support for “signs” to be sent between players.
Popularity: 7% [?]
Digicel launched a new online game – the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza – for the over 184,000 fans on the Digicel Facebook fan page two weeks ago and to date it has had over 50,000 plays. The goal of the Flash based game that was developed by PanMedia- is to try to place ten BlackBerry smartphones in a holster in fifty seconds or less to qualify to move on to the next round. In round two, fans are faced with a maze of BlackBerry, Digicel, math and word-related multiple-choice questions. Players in the Digicel BlackBerry Bonanza have a chance to win daily and weekly prizes of Digicel call credits and BlackBerry® Bold™ 9700 smartphones. To date Digicel’s Facebook fan Page has over 180,000 Fans, the largest so far of any Caribbean Brand.
