Remember Kim Dotcom? He is the hacker-turned-multimillionaire businessman, accused of costing the entertainment industry $500 million through pirated content uploaded to his popular file-sharing site, Megaupload – which was shut down earlier this year.
Sweet Potato is a young Cape Town startup company that is making planet friendly, durable and protective laptop and tablet sleeves from recycled hessian Global Coffee bags.
The Mona Lisa, also known as La Giaconda or La Joconde in Italy and France, is arguably the most famous painting in the world. However, it may lose that title due to an earlier version which recently went on display in Geneva, Switzerland.
Pics of Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe, have gone viral after being posted on Facebook following “one almighty session” in Ireland in the early hours of Monday morning. Serendipitously bumping into members of a winning Gaelic football team on the streets of Dublin, Radcliffe’s evening took a turn for the blurry.
On October 4th, the Digital Edge Live Show – National Assembly 2012 – will take place at the Cape Town City Hall. You can look forward to the likes of top local and international speakers telling it how it is on all things digital marketing.
Somehow SAA has managed to fail to produce its annual report on time – six months after its year-end. Its claiming it needs to address its “immediate financial challenges” before auditors can complete the financial statements.
Seriously, this winter is dragging on a bit don’t you think? Why not get the hell out of the dodge and chill for seven nights in Zanzibar. The price is a bit ridiculous at R8,995 (ALL IN) – you’d me mental not to grab it by the horns! And this little spot – Ras Michamvi […]
Today is the fourth day that approximately 20 000 workers across South Africa from the freight transport sector are on strike over wages. They rejected the latest offer of a staggered 9% increase, and asked for a 12% increase instead. They have promised to “bring the economy to its knees” if their demands are not met.
Zuma appointed to UN education panel. Malema claims innocence and demands an iPad to prove it. Hundreds of police guns lost. MTN to provide 4G before year-end, but not in Cape Town. Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions.
In the first ever ‘shadow’ report, the provincial MEC, Dan Plato, has given more detail to Cape Town’s crime statistics, using information gathered from police reports and mortuaries. The biggest shock? A lot of 18 – 35 year-old Capetonians are getting stabbed, making up the majority of murder victims.
Getting rid of a bad attack of hiccups can be a real bitch. You try everything – drinking a glass of water, holding your breath or counting back from 100 while jumping on one leg. A classic method is getting a friend to scare you suddenly. Pulling a gun on them should do the trick.
Hollywood has run out of ideas, which is why they’re starting to reboot projects that failed to reach their full potential… like Sylvester Stallone’s Judge Dredd. The idea of seeing a second attempt at this comic book hero, wrapped in a 3D bow and sporting a relatively unknown cast was about as appealing as snorting […]
Capitec today announced a 35 per cent rise in first-half profit for this year. It also said it planned to offer more than 14 million new shares at R160 each – a discount of more than 22 per cent on Tuesday’s closing price.
Karl-Heinz Urban, known for playing Eomer the future King of Rohan on Lord of the Rings, Dr Leonard Bones in the new Star Trek and now Judge Dredd in the 2012 film, Dredd, will be on The Bro Show with Paul Snodgrass from 18Hoo-20Hoo today.
Julius Malema appeared in the Polokwane Regional Court this morning, and was officially charged with money laundering. This after he allegedly “received proceeds from unlawful activities”. He was granted bail of R10 000.
“The electronic management of health care through mobile devices” or, more simply, “mHealth” is rapidly on the rise and a recent study shows just how much of a positive impact it is having. From everyday apps that assist with general health and fitness to more medically-purposed ones that can monitor blood pressure, the presence of […]
Can you believe that Apple has just released its 93rd iPhone ad? That’s a lot, considering that the iPhone has only been around for five years. A lot of the focus of the iPhone 4S’s advertising was on Siri, making this new iteration of ads a refreshing return to basics.
A Brazilian judge ordered the arrest of the head of Google’s operations in Brazil for failure to remove YouTube videos that attacked a mayoral candidate.
Embarrassing. That single word has made up a lot of the overall feedback received after RIM uploaded this video to their YouTube page yesterday. Aimed at developers, it aims to showcase all the cool new features of the Blackberry 10 – by having a couple of dads pretend to be rockstars.
Always wanted to explore the Great Barrier Reef but couldn’t quite get the cash together? Don’t worry, good guy Google has it covered. Its latest Street View collection comes from beneath the waves of several famous diving spots and the results are nothing less than spectacular.
Malema’s show of force gets off to a bad start. BBA Votes To Give Up Libor Role. Barack Obama warns that US will ‘do what we must’ to stop Iran. 100 million will die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate.
It’s back! After its initial launch almost a decade ago, the grandaddy of social networks, MySpace, is set to make a comeback with a completely redesigned site and new interface which they’ve previewed in a brand new teaser video. The new site looks great and, as one would expect, is promising to be the next big thing, yet I foresee one slight problem: does anyone care?
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The iPhone 5 isn’t due for release in the Netherlands until Friday, but that didn’t stop Dutch website iPhone5.nl getting their paws on one before everyone else. Bestowed with this great honour, what better way to celebrate other than by gluing it to the sidewalk and secretly videotaping everyone who thinks they’ve just made the find of the century?
Well, this isn’t good news for Greece, especially as they have to reduce that budget deficit before they can get the next tranche of cash that has been promised to them.
A group of activists recently gatecrashed the retirement dinner of former HMRC boss, Dave Hartnett. They gained entrance to the event by pretending to be representatives from Vodafone and Goldman Sachs. Watch them present him with a fake award for his services to “corporate tax avoidance”. What makes it even funnier is the fact that it took a while before people realised they were being punked.
Ivo Vegter was on the Premier Show on 2oceansvibe Radio on Friday to talk about his new book, Extreme Environment. Click through for the interview about one of the most controversial books of 2012.
A few days ago Green Day was performing at the I Heart Radio Festival in Las Vegas. Everything was going swimmingly until their 45 minute set was cut in half to give Usher and Rihanna more time to perform, the band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, was not impressed.
It’s time to start getting a little worried, gang. Soon that Saturday morning English breakfast is going to be missing its most vital ingredient, and your bacon and egg roll will become nothing more than just an egg roll. It’s coming – the porkpocalypse.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said that Google has not yet submitted a new Google Maps application to Apple.