Ster-Kinekor Pulls All Newspaper Advertising – One of South Africa’s top film distribution companies will no longer be featuring their movie schedules in newspapers, a report said on Tuesday. Doug Place, marketing executive for Ster-Kinekor Theatres was quoted by iAfrica.com as saying that their “core target market” are reading fewer newspapers and are instead using online and mobile […]
Has Facebook just been hacked? A short while ago, tweets began to start flowing eluding to the fact that Facebook was reportedly down in many regions across the world including Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. We searched a little, and Facebook is indeed inaccessible to many. What will they do?
Yesterday 2oceansvibe broke the horrific story of a taxi driver’s near-lethal bout of road rage. The video, showing a taxi driver repeatedly ramming and running over a pedestrian, before kicking him to the ground, has since gone viral. Today, 2oceansvibe ascertained from Brent Oil’s spokesperson that the incident took place at this location. Click through for more!
This is pretty impressive. Think about those sporting events that turn out completely different to what you thought they would at the beginning. But then it’s too late – you’ve made your bet. Imagine being able to get an idea of how the Super 15 players are playing on a particular day, before making your […]
While this chap’s bill at Liverpool’s Playground nightclub included a R1.5 million bottle of bubbly, I am even more impressed with the 42 cans of Pussy energy drink which he included in that haul. Clearly the 2oceansvibe energy drink partner is held in the same high regard over in the UK. Check this story out. […]
In a shocking move from ICASA, the communications regulator in South Africa, a hold has been put on its applications to allocate frequencies to various local cell providers. This all sounds very complicated, but I’m going to attempt to spell it all out for you below, in words you’ll be able to understand.
Yesterday, 2oceansVibe reported that ex-Matie student, Jacobus Eksteen, was sentenced to thirty years in jail for the kidnapping, rape and murder of his friend’s little sister, Erin Van Rensburg in June 2009. Now court documents from his sentencing at the Western Cape High Court yesterday have revealed the shocking and sickening plans Eksteen laid to entrap, rape and ultimately kill the 20-year old.
Our local wildlife can be very… independent minded. A giraffe and a baboon have made separate headlines today for their remarkably free-thinking behaviour.
The SABC has had plans to launch a new channel for a while. It has now announced that its new channel will again attempt an April 1 launch. And no, that’s no April Fool’s joke like last time. They’re serious this time. The channel will be a 24-hour news channel, and will be launched in conjunction with MultiChoice.
Oh, good, more things from the future to terrify me. Boston Dynamics, a Pentagon contractor, has broken the speed record for legged robots, with a new four-legged creation – the Cheetah, which can run at 29 kilometres an hour, far outpacing the 20 km/h record set by MIT in 1989.
It was a late summer’s afternoon in Johannesburg. I was dead on my feet. I’d been pounding the pavements of Jozi’s mean streets for a full eight hours, cashing checks and breaking necks. I was out of the car, and straight to my hotel room. Shoes off, aircon on full blast, lemon twist in hand, […]
Watch as two of TV’s hottest properties mash up in a glorious homage of one opening sequence to another!
We all know how annoying it is when you get a snippet of a song stuck in your head and it plays in a loop. Try as you might, you just can’t get rid of it and you have no idea how to identify it, until slowly, it begins to drive you mad. Don’t sweat. […]
The liquidators of Aurora Empowerment Systems, which is accused of asset-stripping bankrupt Pamodzi Gold, amongst other dubious activities, will lay charges of fraud this week against Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Zondwa. President Jacob Zuma’s nephew should probably also look forward to facing some music.
A Cape Town toddler is in critical condition after being attacked by a Rottweiler while he was walking with his stepfather in Belhar.
I’m not quite sure if this is ironic, or just plain unfortunate. I’m going to settle with a little bit of both. A Sri Lankan man made the attempt at the record for being buried alive the longest, but emerged a dead man. The important question: Did he break the record?
IT security firm Trustwave recently released its Global Security Report for 2012. In it they reveal the most used password by business users. Before you click through, see if you can guess what it is – you might not be too far off the mark.
Michael Jackson’s Entire Music Back Catalogue Stolen By Hackers – Michael Jackson’s back catalogue has allegedly been stolen from Sony Music by hackers, it has emerged. More than 50,000 music files, most of which were by the late pop legend, are said to have been illegally downloaded. [guardian] Publishers Take On News Monitors Over Royalties – A […]
A taxi driver (of all people) recently got upset at someone jaywalking across the street. Nearby CCTV footage show the driver deliberately bumping into the pedestrian twice – eventually crushing the guy’s leg under the wheel! The motorist then gets out of the taxi and kicks the helpless victim in the face. Be warned: this video is not for sensitive viewers.
With over 30,000 downloads of the 2oceansvibe Radio app on Blackberry phones alone, there are quite clearly a large number of you who would like to know about this special deal. I remember this deal came abotu in January and pretty much sold out. So if you missed that one, best you step up to the plate […]
Former Stellenbosch University student, Jacobus Johannes Eksteen, has received a sentence of thirty years for the kidnap, rape and murder of fellow student, Erin Van Rensburg nearly three years ago in June, 2009.
You may have heard about the massive storm that hit KZN over the weekend, disrupting pretty much everything. Over 250mm of rain fell on the KZN coast this weekend – causing the Palmiet River to overflow its banks. Residents of Quarry Heights also faced evacuations. Guess what? She’s coming back.
I told you the other day about the incredible Okapi launch at Merchants on Long (here), but I had no idea about this new campaign! Renowned local photographer, Andrew Verster-Cohen was asked to shoot the latest Okapi handbag campaign for designer Hanneli Rupert. The results were phenomenal. Check out the rest of the shoot at popyacollar.co.za.
It’s Demonstration Monday, folks. Two protests, complete with some dramatic tire burning, blockaded roads and accusations of corruption, have occurred in different areas of Cape Town since this morning.
It would appear that authorities are finally starting to make serious inroads into the rhino horn trafficking underworld. A suspected kingpin, and former Mpumalanga police officer, was arrested on Friday in Hazyview. He was found with four rhino horns, and over R60 000 in his possession.
It’s less than a week to go until the iPad 3 is unveiled, so everybody and their grandma is throwing out thoughts about what the new toy can do. Concrete stats are emerging though – Apple employees have been browsing the web with their personal iPad 3’s, turning up details about the new tablet on website server logs.
Well this is all kinds of wow. Mercedes have developed a new hyrdogen fuel cell technology for their latest vehicle ranges which they claim has zero emissions, and is thus “invisible to the environment”. See what happens when they take that concept to the next level. Eat your heart out, 007!
Everyone has, at one time or another, wished desperately for a real life mute button. Whether it’s a nagging partner or an annoying boss, sometimes life would just be easier if you could simply hit a button and make it all go away. Now, thanks to some clever Japanese researchers, you can!
I am completely flabbergasted at the amount of people who still think it is cool to call out of the blue. People who assume that you are available at that exact time. People who assume you want to take a chance in the hope that THAT particular call is not an annoying salesman or bank person. People […]
I give credit when credit is due, and this you have to hear. You see just last weekend I was chilling with The Muse at the Mount Nelson pool (anyone can chill there, as long as you use the Labrisa Spa first – locals get a 25% discount) and we were enjoying some scones and […]