Obviously. The credibility of Rupert Murdoch’s News International has been thrown into further disarray as the media giant finally admitted in the High Court that it had also illegally been accessing emails. This follows the emergence of some 36 hacking settlements yesterday.
This week Rolling Stone’s Tech Editor, Bradley Shaw, gives us his blue sky technology predictions for 2012. Ryan also reviews the DSTV WALKA, and as always, your latest Tech News. Proudly brought to you by:
As part of their ‘reinvention of the textbook,’ Apple yesterday unveiled three new applications for use in the digital educational under their Apple in Education program: iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The tools are designed to allow for interactive textbooks, digital textbook creation, and open-access educational resources from top universities, respectively.
Yesterday the popular file-sharing site, MegaUpload was taken down by the US government. In response, hackers aligned with the global cyber-collective known as Anonymous took down at least six prominent websites, including those of the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group.
A British man has been arrested and questioned by UK police regarding his involvement in the alleged theft of a fragment of a statue of Saddam Hussein from Iraq in 2003, more specifically its ass.
Don’t you think it’s time you found your inner-Neo? Not sure if you noticed, but your life is online now – 100% on the web. Don’t you want to be the master of that? Aren’t you tired of the crap line of work you’re in? Shouldn’t you be moving into the digital space? Exactly. That’s […]
I hate flying. I can’t explain it, but I have a terrible irrational fear of being in a plane. I just can’t get my head around that much metal not falling out of the sky. And now my fears are made worse – Airbus has found cracks in the wings of the A380 – but says it’s still safe to fly.
November 25 2011 marked the last of 2oceansvibe and Jack Daniel’s 2011 missions to liberate South Africa’s work force from their Friday Afternoon shackles. The celebration of freedom went down at the stunning Grand Cafe And Beach in Granger Bay on a sunny Friday afternoon. We can only imagine what 2012 has in store… […]
Do you know what self-immolation is? It’s the rather rare practice of setting oneself on fire to show how strongly you feel about something. Go figure. In the Middle East and North Africa though, it’s become more commonplace ever since a Tunisian vegetable seller did it to protest police harrassment, evoking an uprising at the end of 2010.
A Costa Cruises executive, and a woman with an obviously cold heart, has brandished her colleagues the “true heroes” of the Costa Concordia disaster. She also accused the passengers of “sensationalism” in a letter in which she discussed the tragedy that saw the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsize off the coast of Italy.
Apple Is Worth More Than South Africa – Apple‘s stock price hit an all-time hight of $431.37 a share in early trading today, pushing its market capitalization above $400 billion. At that price, Apple’s value was higher than the gross domestic product (GDP) of Greece, Austria, Argentina or South Africa. [digitrends] Stay Cool In The […]
A short while ago, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company agreed to pay damages to 36 high-profile victims of tabloid phone-hacking. On top of this, News Corp has acknowledged to victims that executives covered up the scale of the unlawful activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators.
Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway transforms famous vintage black and white pictures into high resolution colour versions. Examples include scenes from Pearl Harbour, a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, and the “The Burning Monk” used on the Rage Against the Machine album cover. See these, along with famous people such as Albert Einstein and Anne Frank, after the jump.
Following criticism over pretty much everything he’s done in the past decades, Star Wars creator/destroyer George Lucas announced his planned retirement in a recent interview with the New York Times – adding, “Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?”
Though it did well on the festival circuit, South Africa’s “Skoonheid” has missed out on a nomination for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards. Unfortunate, but what films did make the shortlist, and which is the favourite tipped to win the gong?
Large parts of the Kruger National Park have been completely closed off until further notice, and more than two dozen people have had to be airlifted to safety following heavy rains and flooding in the area.
Why does this never happen to me? Why can’t my bank make these kinds of mistakes? A man in India was recently given the shock of his life when he checked his bank balance online and found out that he was the sudden recipient of 980 billion rupees – roughly R78 billion.
And guess who’s got a finger in that pie? None other than convicted fraudster, Tony Yengeni. Granted it probably won’t be a very big warship, if we can really even call it that, but it has the potential to cost even more than the four frigates we bought as part of the controversial 1999 R60 billion arms deal.
We all know who Alan Knott-Craig Jnr is. He’s the guy who bought MXit, owns World of Avatar, and made it possible for you to buy Vida with your cell. His father, Alan Knott-Craig Snr, has just been appointed as the CEO of Cell C. This could mean some very interesting developments in the telecoms industry.
Back when I was three, I sometimes got so angry over not getting my way that I’d literally throw my toys to the ground. I can therefore totally relate to Marcos Baghdatis breaking four of his tennis racquets at the Australian Open yesterday. This happened just after he lost the second set of their match against Stanislas Wawrinka.
This is sort of like Robocop! Brazilian police forces are testing out glasses fitted out with cameras linked to a central computer network that stores a database of criminal suspects’ faces, so that they’ll be able to arrest people during the 2014 World Cup without having to ask them their names.
Dan Patlansky will be in to chat about his new album called 20 Stones, which is being launched this Sunday at Kirstenbosch. For those of you who haven’t heard him, he’s a 30-something blues-musician with legend status! His epic talent as a Blues-musician aside, a little-known fact about the man is that he can sing…. Tune […]
Back in the early 1990s, you didn’t get much more supermodel than Cindy Crawford. Now, decades later, her 10-year old daughter Kaia has stepped onto the catwalk for the first time, and for the same design house that made her mother internationally famous: Versace.
It’s official – after weeks of speculation on Wall Street, the once iconic and innovative film company has run out of money. Kodak filed for bankruptcy today, after failing to survive a liquidity crisis following a massive decline in the sales of the very thing it pioneered in the first place – film.
In what must be some of the creepiest news to emerge (this week) from what is admittedly a pretty weird place, a number of human body parts have been found scattered around the famous Hollywood Hills sign in Los Angeles. The LAPD says a severed human head was found in the area yesterday, and since then the discovery of “pairs of hands and feet” has also been reported.
London Firm Pays R470 Million For Quarter Of Mvelaphanda – Private-equity group Blackstar had spent about R468m to acquire Coronation’s 28% stake in Mvelaphanda Group , the parties announced yesterday. Mvela’s holdings include 21% of media group Avusa , the half-owner of Business Day, and 3% of Absa. [businessday] Huffington Post To Launch Live […]
One of Hollywood’s most enduring and media-shy couples, film star Johnny Depp and French songstress Vanessa “Be My Baby” Paradis, are over-gadover. According to People magazine, Johnny’s work has increased to a point where he is spending more time in LA than in France, where they have spent most of their life together. And apparently […]
Click HERE to view the trailer! Check out the trailer for rising star, Riaad Moosa’s new film, Material. Material is a new South African film, produced by Ronnie Apteker and directed by Craig Freimond. The story follows a young Muslim man, played by Riaad Moosa, who finds himself torn between his family’s expectations, and a […]
A game farmer has been mauled to death by a buffalo on his Free State farm. Willie Cronje farmed in Boshoff and was also a qualified doctor. The incident was witnessed by his 18-year-old son.
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has today written a letter published in The Star newspaper asking that we no longer refer to Johan Kotzé, the Limpopo rape and murder accused, as “the monster from Modimolle”. He says Kotzé is still one of God’s children “with the capacity to become a saint.”