Reducing Technology Stress in a Wireless World

 

 You are invited to this event hosted by Ramon Thomas in association with BulkSMS. These briefings have been designed to be fully interactive and will be looking at real-life examples, common mistakes and effective ways to reduce technology stress in a wireless world. The cellphone has become an indispensable part of our working life, but…

Using Skype credit to make calls to landlines or cellphones vs Telkom

 

 About two years ago, I received a call from a colleague of mine who was also a non-executive director on the ICDL Foundation in Cape Town. It was strange because I would have assumed calling me from his cellphone would be reasonably priced. For the longest time, I’ve had the default belief that landline to…

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander

 

 This is an important book because it outlines a cause to so many problems, that is so pervasive it goes unnoticed by the vast majority of people. Television was only introduced in South Africa in 1975, as it happens, the year I was born, because the Apartheid government saw a threat to itself losing control….

Spending the Easter Weekend with Paris Hilton in South Africa

 

 US socialite Paris Hilton is currently visiting South Africa with her boyfriend, Benji Madden. She has been on the local news, and some photographs have already surfaced of Paris playing with school children from the Jakaranda Kinderhuis school in Pretoria. Her boyfriend Benji Madden and his band, Good Charlotte, are to perform at My Coke…