Archive for September, 2007

IPTV one step closer for South Africans

Friday, September 14th, 2007

The US might have landed on the moon but South Africa took a huge leap yesterday when the industry regulator, ICASA, announced that four new pay-TV broadcaster licenses had been awarded to Telkom Media, MultiChoice, On Digital Media and e.sat respectively. An interesting note is that Sentech has withdrawn ...

Building data interfaces for .NET

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Just a quick reminder for the free SA Developer .NET event tomorrow, the 8th September 2007, on building .NET data interfaces. The talk will be held in the Microsoft auditorium in Bryanston and presented by André van Rensburg. There are tons of resources available on how to access ...

Nintendo Wii pricing for South Africa

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

The local niche game store BT Games has put up pre-order pricing for the Nintendo Wii console that is supposedly being launched at rAge this year and its got some Nintendo fans a little upset. James Francis from NAG magazine has the following to say in his blog post: ...

Wanna learn to speak Zulu?

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

I recently got invited to the Motherland Language Project group on Facebook and after much procrastination decided to take a look see what its all about. Turns out its a bunch of South Africans that are trying to teach a million South Africans to speak Zulu in 8 weeks ...

Spring is here and its time for a new blog

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

For the last few years I've experimented with various blogging sites. I started off with my very first blog hosted by Blogger, but I wasn't too impressed by it. I can't remember how I stumbled upon the local dotnet.org.za community site run by Armand du Plessis but I found my ...