Julius Malema Owes Afriforum R400,000 – In addition to facing disciplinary charges for bringing the ANC into disrepute and causing a struggle song to be banned, embattled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will have to fork out about R400000 to advocacy group Afriforum. [timeslive] Djokivik Takes Nadal – Novak Djokovic confirmed his status as […]
A German court on Friday upheld an injunction requested by Apple barring the sales of Samsung Galaxy tablets in Germany. In what is surely another groundbreaking ruling against Samsung and the Galaxy Tab, the German court ruled that Samsung had basically copied Apple’s iPad.
Oscar Pistorius Storms Out Of BBC Interview – South African double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius cut short a BBC radio interview after being asked whether he could be viewed as an “inconvenient embarrassment” to athletics officials for competing in able-bodied competitions. “I think that’s an insult to me and I think this interview is over,” Pistorius […]
I love Postsecret. I’ll just put that right there. It’s an ongoing community art project that started in the States in 2005. Now, after almost seven years of receiving the secrets, Postsecret are releasing their very own app for iPhone.
Black Farmers Selling Farms Back To Previous White Owners – South Africa’s minister of land reform says black farmers have resold nearly 30 percent of the white farmland bought for them by the government – often back to the previous white owners. Minister Gugile Nkwinti announced the startling indicator of failure at Wednesday’s launch of a […]
Purported Pic Of iPhone 5 Back Cover Emerges – The iPhone 5 may not look all that different from its predecessor, the iPhone 4. What is said to be a photo of an iPhone 5’s back cover has emerged, and it features a model number widely believed to be associated with the next generation Apple […]
Steve Jobs Resigns As CEO Of Apple – Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple Inc. and driving force behind a string of products that revolutionized the consumer-electronics industry, stepped down as chief executive but was named chairman of the board, the company said late Wednesday. His relinquishing of daily control had been widely anticipated […]
Papa wag vir jou, Shrien.. Judge Rules Shrien Dewani Able To Be Extradited – Shrien Dewani can be extradited to South Africa to face trial for organising the murder of his wife Anni on their honeymoon last year, a district court judge has ruled. District judge Howard Riddle rejected arguments that the Bristol businessman was suffering […]
Plane Above Wall Street: ‘Thanks for the Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired’ – It’s always nice when an airplane articulates your thoughts for you—like the plane flying above Lower Manhattan today trailing a huge message: “THANKS FOR THE DOWNGRADE. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED.” [gawker] Apple Becomes The Most Valuable Company In The World – […]
London Burns – Rioting has spread across London on a third night of violence, with unrest flaring in other English cities. An extra 1,700 police officers were deployed in London, where shops were looted and buildings were set alight. Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol also saw violence. [bbc] Malema Pays R50,000 For Saying Alleged Victim Enjoyed Being […]
Speaking at the Black Hat hacker’s conference in Vegas yesterday, former director of the CIA’s counterterrorism center Cofer Black voiced concerns about a future “code war” where hackers tamper with the technology that runs our day-to-day interactions. Then a fire alarm accidentally tripped, which was nice and thematic.
R3.5 Billion Of Cocaine Found On Luxury Yacht – Biggest Ever – A haul of cocaine with a street value of up to £300m has been found hidden inside a luxury yacht in Southampton, the UK Border Agency has said. Officials found 1.2 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a secret compartment in the £1m yacht two […]
An official iPad app for Skype has been pulled mere hours after being made available for free via the iTunes Store. No specific reason was given, except for a Skype tweet claiming the release was “premature.” Awkward.
Apple Reveals iCloud Details And Pricing – Apple posted information on its Web site Monday that offers more details about the company’s upcoming iCloud software which will sync customers content between multiple devices. iCloud will allow Apple customers to share their music, books, music and photos between multiple computers and mobile devices, including an iPhone and […]
Because robots can’t get depressed over awful working conditions and commit suicide, you see. Also we don’t have a robot union yet, so Foxconn (the guys who manufacture the iPhone and iPad) won’t need to worry about the slowly increasing factory worker wages in Taiwan, which are driving overhead costs upwards throughout the fancy-technology-making-industry.
Toyota and bicycle maker, Parlee have developed a bike that can read your mind. The Prius X Parlee changes gears by registering the cyclist’s brain waves, through the use of an experimental iPhone app and a fancy thought sensitive helmet.
Apple Is Holding More Cash Than The USA – Apple now has more cash to spend than the United States government. Latest figures from the US Treasury Department show that the country has an operating cash balance of $73.7bn (£45.3bn). Apple’s most recent financial results put its reserves at $76.4bn. [bbc] Obama Announces Deal To End US […]
Kim Kardashian Suing Old Navy For Using Lookalike In Ad – They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. But Kim Kardashian has been left furious after clothing brand Old Navy used a lookalike in their new ad campaign. The 30-year-old reality star is now suing the clothing giant for somewhere in the region […]
Alleged Marilyn Monroe Porn Film Up For Auction – One of the only two known copies of an alleged porn short film starring a yet unknown Marilyn Monroe will be offered at auction in Buenos Aires, EFE reported Wednesday. With a starting price of half a million dollars, the item will be the highlight of […]
The infamous Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, has claimed another life, when a 21 year-old male worker “fell to his death” from the sixth floor of a factory dormitory. More than a dozen similar fatalities by falling were reported last year.
Rupert Murdoch – A Hands On Newspaper Man – To illustrate the extent to which Rupert Murdoch used to micro-manage his newspapers, a one-time Murdoch editor told an anecdote about a typical board meeting at the mogul’s UK newspaper arm in the 1980s. Check this story out. [reuters] Piers Morgan Defends Rupert Murdoch – After […]
Research In Motion (Rim), the makers of BlackBerry, has been severely criticized for having two CEOs, but apparently there’s really only one man who wears the pants in the ever-deteriorating domestic situation that is the Rim boardroom: Mike Lazaridis.
Matt Goss was the lead singer and one of the twin brothers who made up the band Bros. I was 11 years old when the 1988 hit “I Owe You Nothing” dominated the top of the charts and although I was still learning about what was and wasn’t ‘cool,’ I was sure as shit that […]
FBI Opens 9/11 Inquiry Into Murdoch’s News Corp – The phone hacking scandal that has ignited a political firestorm in Britain jumped the Atlantic on Thursday as the FBI opened an investigation into whether British reporters tried to access cellphone messages and records of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in violation of […]
Dewani’s In-Laws Are Flying To Monday’s Hearing – Murdered honeymoon bride Anni Dewani’s family, including her 82-year-old grandmother, will fly to the UK to be at Shrien Dewani’s final extradition hearing on Monday. Speaking from his home in Sweden yesterday, Anni’s father said he hoped his son-in-law would be sent to South Africa to stand […]
Monkey Steals Camera And Takes Pics Of Himself – A macaque monkey in Indonesia took a camera from a wildlife photographer before snapping himself in a variety of poses. David Slater, 46, said: “They were quite mischievous jumping all over my equipment, and it looked like they were already posing for the camera when one […]
A fair portion of the smartphone market in this country belongs to BlackBerry, because unlike the rest of the world, we still pay rather exorbitant data fees to the carrier firms that run the market. And free messaging is like, so cool. Not internationally though, where BlackBerry maker, RIM, is in a serious make-or-break space.
Charlene Wittstock and Prince Albert of Monaco’s Royal Wedding – South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock married Prince Albert of Monaco this weekend, in a wedding shrouded in controversy – as only the Grimaldis can. Full photo gallery available. [popyacollar] Djokovic Crowned King Of Wimbledon – In an encounter which lasted nearly two and a half […]
Isn’t that surprising? A study of British recreational culture has been published, and it transpires that British people love nothing more than to listen to the wireless. Much more so than they enjoy reading, surfing the net, or even watching television. That kind of thing is almost unfavorable in South Africa. Because the general quality […]
Man Grabs French President Before Being Tackled [Video] – A man grabbed French President Nicolas Sarkozy by his shoulder and pulled him up against a barricade Thursday before being tackled by security officers. The incident came as Sarkozy visited the town of Brax in southwest France. Television footage showed the man being wrestled to the ground by […]