Launching on 19 March, a new Internet start-up, LiveBids, hopes to shake up the SA online retail market with a combination of online auctions, pay-per-bid sales and group buying. Conceived two-and-a-half years ago, LiveBids is the brainchild of two Capetonians
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For years, Google and Facebook have been waging trench warfare for big-brand advertising budgets. Billions of dollars are up for grabs, and since this money constitutes the bulk of revenue for both companies, the stakes are high. Twitter, which last week launched a self-service ad platform, is a relative
In his international bestseller The Hare With Amber Eyes, Edmund de Waal traces the fortune of a collection of carved Japanese netsuke figurines. Readers grew so entranced by the story of these objects that they started clamouring to see them. So after the hardback, the e-book, and the paperback came the
Apple is introducing new features to its Mac OS X operating system that sometimes appear somewhat counterintuitive and are slowly driving this writer to consider alternatives. I admit I was a reluctant convert to Apple, but switched to the Mac platform with the release of Mac OS X 10.5
It’s no secret that Nokia is in trouble. It lost close to US$1,5bn in 2011, its market share, particularly in the profitable smartphone market, continues to plunge and its big bet — a partnership with Microsoft — has yet to produce significant revenues. So when I received a review model of Nokia’s newest phone, the Lumia 800
With the announcement about whether SA or Australia will host the core site of the giant Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope expected on 4 April, the likelihood of the project coming to SA has received a boost from finance minister Pravin Gordhan, who says the project will qualify for “VAT relief”
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has moved to calm the controversy over electronic tolls on Gauteng’s upgraded highways, saying monthly fees will be capped at a maximum R550/month. Gordhan says the fees, which will be imposed from 30 April, will also be reduced
TopTV has no immediate plans to introduce a personal video recorder (PVR) or high-definition (HD) broadcasts, despite earlier promises by former CEO Vino Govender, who recently left the pay-TV operator’s employ, that it would introduce such products. Govender had said previously that TopTV would
The Xperia Neo V, one of the last handsets to carry both Sony and Ericsson’s names following the break-up of the years-long partnership between the two companies, is a relatively inexpensive smartphone that offers much of the same operational functionality of more expensive models but with less of the hardware
The Democratic Alliance has challenged a public finance economist on his finding that the e-tolling system will not affect the poor. “The statement that toll fees on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) will only make the rich poorer and not hit the poor, cannot go unchallenged,” DA MPL Neil Campbell