Dead Letter Circus return

[Ruth Cooper] Due to popular demand, after their successful debut SA tour in 2013, alternative Aussie rock band Dead Letter Circus are returning for a second running, performing at popular hangouts in Pretoria, Joburg and Cape Town. We emailed vocalist and lyricist Kim Benzie a few questions to find out more.

Grand Prix at the end of rainbow for The MediaShop

[Danette Breitenbach] The MediaShop has been awarded the Advertising Media Association of South Africa (AMASA) Roger Garlick Grand Prix Award for the Coke Rainbow campaign...

What better place to discuss social media law than in a Twitter live chat?

[Leigh Andrews] Court reporting on big news items like the #OscarPistoriusTrial are now synonymous with live-tweeting and 'breaking news'... but legal experts advise the media to rather focus on quality and accuracy.

Why these brands are growing

[Louise Burgers] Global strategic marketing consultancy Added Value has found that brands that tap into cultural relevance and prove themselves to be authentic, honest, all natural, with a good story to tell, have brought back a traditional craft...

Grab the opportunities created by a shifting world

[Danette Breitenbach] There is great potential in South Africa. The country is a huge market and you cannot count yourself as a global player if you are not in Africa, and you cannot play in Africa if you are not in South Africa...

PietraSanta - the Italian town that's a millionaire magnet

[Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster] If, like me, you've never heard of Pietrasanta, a small village 4km inland from the resorts of the Tyrrhenian Sea on Italy's west coast...

Once in Cape Town: Where youth hostel meets hotel

[Ilse Burger] As most people probably should know, our beloved Mother City was rated number one on the prestigious New York Times' 52 Places to go in 2014 list. She just somehow never disappoints. This of course has resulted in many, many new and returning travellers wanting to explore and soak up everything Cape Town has to offer.

[WDC2014] puts the spotlight on local creative genius

[Leigh Andrews] When Cape Town was named World Design Capital 2014, not many people took notice. They did this weekend, with the WDC2014 Design House Exhibition on at the Stadium until last Saturday...

Funding the tech startup: South Africa's next hurdle

[John Harvey] Such is the tech age in which we now live that the word "startup" automatically translates as a new company whose business is centred on digital innovations like apps, algorithms and other technologies...

Video surveillance hard drive enhancements improve reliability, performance

[Kalvin Subbadu] In 2014, the total market in Africa for video surveillance equipment is expected to exceed US$200 million (over R2 billion).

Growth of cloud and data centres fuels need for appropriate storage

[Kalvin Subbadu] Massive data growth and an increasing trend toward virtualisation technology are having a profound impact on the modern organisation.

Always-on enterprise class storage is key

[Kalvin Subbadu] The data explosion is a well-known fact, and big data is having a profound impact not only on the volume of data but also the variety of data generated and the velocity at which it is being created.

[Antifragility] Just another manic New Media Monday

[Jessica Tennant] The second instalment of New Media Mondays on (ahem) Monday, 13 October at Priest Post Production in Woodstock, was centred on antifragility, a newish concept coined by Nassim Taleb...

The Internet of Things here to stay

[Jacques de Jager] If you have had anything to do with technology in the past three months, chances are that you have come across the Internet of Things (IoT)...

Instructions Not Included: a heavenly map to the human heart

[Daniel Dercksen] The eternal bond between father and daughter has never been more powerful than in the unforgettable Mexican film Instructions Not Included.

WWF-SASSI serves up sustainable seafood report

[Sindy Peters] According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, the per capita consumption of fish per annum has nearly doubled in the last 50 years...

[NewsMaker] Allurelle Healing

[Louise Burgers] The NewsMaker series this week features Allurelle Healing, digital campaign manager at Habari Media. Her responsibilities include campaign management on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, BBC, All4women...

[FutureTech]: Embracing technology trends to satisfy consumers' wants

[Leigh Andrews] 'Altered Realities', a World Design Cape Town 2014 initiative, presented by Popular Mechanics in association with Autodesk and BMW, last week, gave a glimpse of the techie future...

[FutureTech] Insight into technology's role in your life - now and in the future

[Leigh Andrews] When a conference programme mentions 'zombie zoology' and 'the nature of dark energy', you know it's going to be a goodie. 'Altered Realities', presented by Popular Mechanics, didn't disappoint...