Archive for the ‘South Africa’ Category
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
So what's up with the search engines today? The local site MyBroadband has an article up about Yahoo! redirecting to the Chinese search engine Baidu and suggested that Yahoo has been hacked. I don't normally use Yahoo! so I checked it out and after typing in a search term I ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Well if you are in Jozi for the weekend of the 13th of October you can join other crazy adrenalin junkies and either abseil or rap jump down the side of the Ponte City building in Johannesburg. Apparently its the tallest building in the southern hemisphere measuring in at ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
On the 24th of September 2007 its a public holiday, Heritage Day in face. But a bunch of people have decided that is really just a great day to have a braai and are encouraging all South Africans to get friends and family together and to cook up a ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
It looks like Telkom is in a bit of a pickle over its recent "Do Broadband" advertising. A post on MyBroadband details the complaint from a consumer that says its false advertising. Mr Moorad lodged a consumer complaint against Telkom’s “do” broadband campaign, arguing that the advertisements claims ...
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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 An interesting note is that Sentech has withdrawn ...
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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 ...
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