Core Gaming Group, Nintendo's representative company in South Africa, has announced the release of two blockbuster games for the Wii, Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Party 8, along with the much anticipated launch of the handheld console system Nintendo DS Lite in SA. 7 Feb 2008
"And ultimately, what's good for consumers is good for SA," he says. 7 Feb 2008
Broadband has great potential, but it is being hampered by artificial limits. 7 Feb 2008
Cellphone company launches a world-first innovation helping customers save money. 7 Feb 2008
Economic issues are set to drive, rather than inhibit, growth in unified communications. 7 Feb 2008
Earnings per share and diluted earnings per share are expected to be between 40 and 50% higher. 6 Feb 2008
A new study has identified best practices for private label sourcing. 6 Feb 2008
Teba Bank has opened its new branch, in Westonaria – and the opening also marked the launch of a new vision as well… to broaden the client base. 6 Feb 2008
Pick n Pay wants Government to look again at how the price of of fuel is regulated in South Africa. 6 Feb 2008
With food inflation in South Africa running at over 10%, a new danger is haunting the marketplace – a creature called 'agflation' or agricultural price inflation. 6 Feb 2008
The inability to aggregate an organisations' overall risk position allowed a failing of credit risk principles in a relatively small section of the US housing market, to spill into a wider liquidity risk for global wholesale finance markets. This is according to a new report, “The Evolution of Enterprise Risk Management”, by independent market analyst Datamonitor. 6 Feb 2008
The Nederburg brand has been retiered, repackaged and reorganised to ensure it maintains its front-ranking position in the local market and to further already rapid gains garnered abroad, says marketing manager Misti Watson. 6 Feb 2008
Despite consumers making active attempts to eat healthier, the threat of obesity shows no sign of slowing down. Once confined to high-income countries and households, obesity is now just as much of a problem as malnutrition in developing countries. 6 Feb 2008
Perdeberg Wine – the one with the zebra – has launched a first for social networking. The ‘clink to win' application gives Facebook users the chance to raise a glass to anyone or anything and rewards them for doing it too. 6 Feb 2008
Here are 14 usability tips for login and my account pages. Let's face it, the easier it is for people to log in, the happier the are, and the more likely they are to make a purchase. 6 Feb 2008
After a bad experience, I vowed to myself that I wouldn't be fooled again. I put on my Due Diligence Hat and sat down to determine how to choose a data centre. 6 Feb 2008
What does engagement really mean to an interactive marketer? This is the theme of our monthly newsletter (internal) from several of our thought leaders in search, business intelligence, advance optimization – and, of course, email eolutions (my group). 5 Feb 2008
Practical Publishing has launched Sign Africa 2008, with larger venues, exciting new products and live demonstrations. For the first time, Sign Africa will be going to the Eastern Cape with a product day in Port Elizabeth, aimed specifically at the growing signage industry in that area. 5 Feb 2008
Critics thought it was over the top when Amazon.com expanded from books into music in 1998. When the Web retailer let competitors start selling things alongside its own inventory in 2000, they said Amazon had gone nuts. In both cases, Amazon proved them wrong. 5 Feb 2008
It's been dubbed "The Mystery of the Missing iPhones." On 22 January 2008, Apple reported that it sold 3.7 million units of its smartphones worldwide through the end of 2007. However, AT&T, the exclusive U.S. iPhone reseller and by far the largest buyer of the devices, reported that its subscribers activated fewer than 2 million units last year. The big question on the minds of Apple watchers is: Where have the other 1.7 million iPhones gone? 5 Feb 2008
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