With many people phoning their loved ones at this time of year, fring has got great news for fringsters in South Africa.

To improve voice quality, we have just installed the first local fring servers in South Africa. The locally hosted server farms will vastly improve voice quality and latency when making fring calls.

Hear the difference – fring a friend today!

Alex Boylan winner of the second season of CBS’s “The Amazing Race.” has arrived in South Africa.

Alex is on a whirl wind trip around the world. But what makes this trip so unique?

Alex will be making the entire journey of about 6 months, with nothing but a few essential items and a smile, the rest of the trip will be funded and managed by viewers of the show that is broadcast weekly on CBS and from his website aroundtheworldforfree.com

This is the worlds first reality show that is being broadcast on a daily base directly from location to viewer and that is directly controlled by the viewer.

But what does this mean for you and me?

It means that we can control Alex’s journey as he moves around the world, telling him where to go, what to do, what to eat and where to sleep.

To date, Alex has traveled through North and South America.
He now plans to take on Africa. Starting from Cape Town on Tuesday the 27th Alex will try to make his way up the East coast to Mozambique and higher into Africa and fringsters this is where he needs you.

If you have any travel tips, can give Alex work for the day or provide transport or accommodation, log onto the website and take control of the show. Send Alex where you want him to go and in the process have a little fun. The website is totally interactive and you can message Alex directly from within the site.

Alex will be passing my neck of the woods in a week or so and I hope to get an in depth interview with him then. We have organized him a few days work at some of our local attractions in the area like Monkeyland and Birds of Eden, and the next few “webisodes” of around the world for free, are going to be fun so don’t miss them.

Its going to be very interesting seeing how long and how far Alex can go solely on the goodwill of others.

So last week fring was in Cape Town for the 27 Dinner, while we where there we thought to ourselves, hey lets test if we can fring from Cape Town’s famous landmark Table Mountain. To avoid the long que’s we left bright and early and our trusty fringmobile got us their safe and sound.

Once our tickets were purchased all that lay ahead was the cool cable cart trip to the top of the mountain. The view from above was amazing and Robben Island and the mother city were clearly visible below.

fring made sure that everyone saw him and was literally the talk of the mountain, many pictures later and still smiling we decided to place a call to a fringster in Israel, the call was clear and as far as we know this is the first fring call made from the most famous landmark in South Africa. (Alon thanks for testing with us)

fringsters world wide will be happy to know that Table Mountain is fully 3G active and low cost calls can now be made from Table Mountain to any supported country on earth.

Next time you are on Table Mountain, give it a try and let us know your experience, pictures will be most welcome.

This weekend (28-29 September 2007) over 20 000 gaming and techno freaks from around the country flocked to Nintendo’s stand at the annual Rage expo held at the Coca-Cola Dome in North-gate.

The much awaited Nintento Wii was officially launched at the expo and is now available in South Africa for about R2900.00 from nintendo.co.za the package comes with a Wii sports game pack, a Wii-mote, and a nunchuck.

“Earlier this month local company Core Group was confirmed as the new South African distributor for Nintendo. The products were formerly distributed here by Futronics, a division of Panasonic.” news24

It will be interesting to see what happens to the sales of Sony’s PS3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 now that Wii is available locally.

Ding Dong.. That sound not ringing your bell anymore?
Then the all new USB doorbell is just for you.

“The USB Doorbell replaces your current chime and allows you to play your favorite sound effects, music, audio clips, movie quotes or whatever strikes your fancy.” Thinkgeek

With a price tag of just over R750.00 this isn’t the cheapest door bell but its worth every cent.

The South African fring Blogger, (Thats me) Will be attending the 27dinner in Cape Town on the 27th October 2007.

Any fringsters, Bloggers, gadget guru’s or anyone else who may like meet up with me on location should book their spot by following this link: 27Dinner

Space is limited so book fast.

See you guys in cape Town.

Thats right guys the Xbox 360 Elite is now available in South Africa. Retailing at around R4600.00 locally, this device will leave your bank balance sweating.

If you think thats hot news think again, things are heating up with the Xbox 360’s Wireless Racing Wheel (an optional extra) which is said to be overheating. According to Microsoft more than 230 000 of these faulty units have been sold internationally. The solution, “use the peripheral with battery power” until you have received a free “retrofit” from Microsoft. News 24

Owners of the racing wheel should visit http://www.xbox.com/en-ZA/ to get further help. Alternatively try calling the customer support line 0800 991 550