Snooth has announced that it's released the Snooth Facebook wine application, allowing Facebook users to interact with, and explore, Snooth's functionality from within their Facebook account. Using Facebook's API to access Snooth's database of millions of wine ratings across hundreds of thousands of wines, users can now rate and review wines, get recommendations and see what their friends are drinking as well as find retailers to purchase specific wines from. 31 Jul 2007
Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Inc., a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies, has announced that Buyers Laboratory, Inc. (BLI) has recognised the magicolor® 5550 as its 2007 'Pick of the Year' based upon its exceptional performance, diverse set of features and economic pricing. 31 Jul 2007
Virgin Active recently announced plans to invest an R1.2 billion in its South African operations over the next five years. R750 million of this sum will go into the total upgrade of all existing facilities over the next 36 months, including the supply of brand new state-of-the-art equipment, and the balance will be spent on an extensive new build programme that will see around forty new clubs developed over the next five years. 31 Jul 2007
Zimbabwe's economy may be crumbling, but it's business as usual in the branding business. 31 Jul 2007
IBM, whose 20th century employees were parodied as corporate cogs in matching navy suits, doesn't have an avatar dress code. However, guidelines suggest being "especially sensitive to the appropriateness of your avatar or persona's appearance when you are meeting with IBM clients or conducting IBM business." 31 Jul 2007
Openads has developed an open source adserver now used by over 20,000 publishers. 31 Jul 2007
South Africa's premier accolade for achievement by women went to Linda Olga Nghatsane, who was named the Shoprite Checkers/SABC 2 Woman of the Year for 2007, at the annual celebration of the women of South Africa, held in Cape Town on Thursday, 26 July 2007. 30 Jul 2007
USA - Koch Equipment LLC has announced the introduction of a new MADO frozen meat grinder for the meat and poultry industries that grinds fresh and frozen product at high levels of efficiency with minimal temperature rise, which reduces bacteria and contaminants. 30 Jul 2007
Safefreight has launched SecurityGuard™212 - a portable, wireless tracking and security device designed for shippers and carriers transporting refrigerated and frozen foods and other perishables. It will help them monitor temperature conditions of their trailers so that their perishable cargo won't be compromised. 30 Jul 2007
A new report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc. says that scientifically backed nutritive and cancer-fighting capabilities of cocoa-rich chocolates are fueling the demand for cocoa. The cocoa market is thus projected to exceed 4 million metric tons by 2010. 30 Jul 2007
There is clearly concern that an individual's right to privacy is being steadily eroded by governments responsible for protecting citizens and by multi-national corporations, whose tremendous power and influence over political and legislative processes has become a given. 30 Jul 2007
Pick the moment, pick the wine, take the picture – and you could win a private boat party for you and 20 friends. 30 Jul 2007
Question: What does a major brand's repositioning story have in common with SA's best loved soapie? Answer: A marketing coup and an inspired strategy because PEP's new brand ‘proposition' has been launched on the popular series, Generations. 30 Jul 2007
CPIX inflation for June came in at 6.4% year on year, while the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased slightly from 6.9 to 7% in June 2007. 27 Jul 2007
Smart retailers understand the relationship between experience, customer delight and the need to create a home away from home where shoppers will spend more time and money. 27 Jul 2007
Wine enthusiasts can gear up for a wondrous week of wine tastings, dinners and interaction with the crème de la crème of South African winemakers culminating in the 22nd Nedbank Cape Wine Guild Auction to be held at NH The Lord Charles in Somerset West on Saturday, 6 October 2007. 27 Jul 2007
So far, courtrooms have seen legal topics related the Internet covering freedom of speech, fraud, censorship, intellectual property, privacy rights, telecommunications, copyright and commercial law. It seems technological innovation will provide more than enough to keep Congress, the executive branch, attorneys, judges and others involved in legal work busy until at least the next generation. 27 Jul 2007
While they were all students at Harvard, 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg worked briefly with twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra on what eventually became ConnectU, a less-successful social networking site. A short time later, he launched Facebook. Now, ConnectU's founders want Facebook shut down. A federal judge, however, isn't eager to do so. 27 Jul 2007
Microsoft now stands to be a major player in the online advertising space as the company struck a deal with Web content aggregator Digg to be its exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising. 27 Jul 2007
MySpace may have done the right think in expelling 29,000 known sexual offenders from its network, but the social networking giant isn't earning many plaudits for taking the action. Instead, critics are lambasting MySpace for giving a misleading report on the extent of the problem earlier this year, and for taking too long to shore up security. 27 Jul 2007
