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WASHINGTON, US: Soldiers posing with slain or captive foes for trophy pictures is nothing new. What is new, experts said last week, is how technology is enabling such images to go viral. Digital photography makes snapshots like those of US soldiers alongside the mangled remains of Taliban suicide bombers reveal a brutal side of conflict that's disturbing to civilians, but all too familiar to combatants. Read more >> | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Telecommunications services provider and 
Helios Towers Ghana (HTG), a subsidiary of Helios Towers Africa and reportedly the first telecom towers company in Ghana, delivered a keynote speech at the 2nd Ghana Telecoms Summit in Accra last week. 
Following the Digital Marketing summit in Nairobi, the 
Africa's premier music industry event, the 
Visa recently appointed PocketMedia Solutions' Z-Card to communicate important information about its Visa Debit Card in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana. 
LONDON, UK: As newspaper publishers launch digital initiatives and experiment with various business models, they should not underestimate the power of their brands, the importance of creating value from their customers, and they should make the audience's user experience top priority. Those were some of the key takeaways for the nearly 300 media executives from 50 countries who attended Digital Media Europe 2012 in London last week. 
NEW YORK, US: for the first time in its history, the Art Directors Club is conducting an audience Award - which allows you, the public, to view and rate all of the Gold Cube Winning Work spanning all Main competition categories for this year. | Partners |
SOUTH AFRICAAfrican Green Campus Initiative launched
University and college campuses that address climate challenge will better serve students and help create a thriving and ethical society, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said at the launch of the African Green Campus Initiative on Saturday. Nzimande said colleges and universities would help provide students with the know-how and skills needed to address climate change. Read more >>| Government |
SOUTH AFRICAE-toll saga deepens, Fedusa sends Zuma open letter
In an open letter to President Jacob Zuma, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) says it has referred the issue of tolling prices, and how they are calculated, to the Competition Commission. Fedusa is seeking an urgent meeting with the president to discuss the issue. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICARoad freight body enters e-toll fray
The Road Freight Association (RFA) has filed papers in the Pretoria High Court in an attempt to join the legal proceedings against the implementation of e-tolling in Gauteng, scheduled for April 30. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICACosts drive SA exporters onto roads
South African mining operators prefer to send their mineral exports to the port of Maputo by road because of the prohibitive fees charged by the South African authorities for use of the rail system, Mozambique's AIM news agency reported. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICASA comes bottom of the class in literacy
Leading education experts cannot explain how SA's education system is less successful than those of many developing countries, despite well-crafted policies and enviable resources. Read more >>More Government news...
| Motoring |
SOUTH AFRICASmart, sensible and stylish Optima
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] For a cloning exercise to be successful it has to create something which is at least as good, or better, than the original - and Kia has just shown that it can be done with remarkable success when they unwrapped the new Kia Optima in South Africa. Read more >>More Motoring news...
| Travel |
SOUTH AFRICAkulula launches '4th wife flies free' offer
kulula has reached out to SA's larger families to get helping hand into the skies with a uniquely South African offer - ideally suited to those guys who reckon one wife is not enough. Read more >>More Travel news...
| BizLounge |
SOUTH AFRICAGastro delights at the Taste of Cape Town 2012
[Justin Williams] The annual Taste of Cape Town event graced our palates this weekend and, judging by the number of people who attended the first night, it was a tasty success. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICACross this line
[Daniel Dercksen] Make sure to see Line, now playing for a short run until 28 April at the Little Theatre, Cape Town. Once you cross the threshold there's no turning back as you spiral into the wonderfully bizarre absurdist world of playwright Israel Horovitz, whose play Line has been entertaining New Yorkers since 1967 and now makes its bow in Cape Town. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAFeast and famine in the Hunger Games
[Eugene Yiga] Survivor. Big Brother. The Amazing Race. There's only so much action we can expect from these and the smorgasbord of other reality TV shows. And so, as was the case in 2011's Real Steel, society of the future has taken the concept one step further. Introducing the Hunger Games, an annual contest in which 24 boys and girls fight to the death until only one is left. A question more pertinent than asking who will survive is asking if you the viewer can survive long enough to find out. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAI'm a Lumberjack and I'm ok...
[Jana van Heerden] Lumberjacking is one of those super-manly professions that helps advertisers to sell shaving cream and other masculine paraphernalia. They wear flannel shirts strategically unbuttoned to show some chest hair and occasionally even chop wood. Now I have been to many festivals around our fair country, including even a Sandstone Festival, and with my limited and - I admit - possibly stereotypical image of a lumberjack, it made perfect sense to throw a festival in honour of this outstanding vocation. Read more >>More BizLounge news...
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