The World Environment Day slogan for 2008 is “Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy.” The UN recognises that climate change is becoming the defining issue of our era and has asked countries, companies and communities to focus on greenhouse gas emissions and how to reduce them. World Environment Day is a United Nations (UN) initiative that aims to focus worldwide attention on the environment. 5 Jun 2008
Biofuel is in the dock at the global food summit in Rome this week, with counties divided over whether it is the villain behind food insecurity, or the cheap energy of the future. 5 Jun 2008
Theft is one of the major concerns facing the retail industry today, a fact that was highlighted during the recent Retail Loss Prevention Conference, held last month at the Southern Sun conference centre in Sandton. 4 Jun 2008
Cape Town's Cavendish Square has become the first South African shopping centre to introduce an intelligent parking guidance system for visitors. 4 Jun 2008
Elle magazine in partnership Mr Price has opened entries for Elle New Talent Awards 2008 to expose this year's hottest fashion talent. 4 Jun 2008
New vehicle sales continued to slide in May with a massive decline of over 23% over the number of vehicles sold during the same month last year. 4 Jun 2008
Appletiser comes to the party for Take a Girl Child to Work Day. 4 Jun 2008
A proposal to scrap VAT on poultry meat products has upset red-meat producers. 4 Jun 2008
ALTX-listed paint manufacturer and retailer's decorative operations bore the brunt of a fire, but the company still managed to achieve good results. 4 Jun 2008
An upcoming Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is to discuss high food prices and financial turmoil among other issues. 4 Jun 2008
One of the world's largest organisations dedicated to awarding innovation in FMCG has finally arrived in South Africa. 3 Jun 2008
Rising fuel prices is the motivating force behind the move on the part of vehicle manufacturers to produce fuel-efficient cars. 3 Jun 2008
In celebration of Five Roses' sponsorship of e.tv's Chick Flick Thursdays, a new ad campaign has been launched with the aim to capture the mystique surrounding the recently introduced speciality tea range that has been sourced from exotic locations around the world. 3 Jun 2008
It the producer's application is granted, it could have an impact on how anticompetitive complaints are handled in future. 3 Jun 2008
Motorists are set to dig deeper into their pockets as the petrol price is set to rise again on Wednesday by 50 cents per litre. 3 Jun 2008
Like any relationship, the relationship you have with your email subscribers needs constant attention; without care, it will whither and die. 3 Jun 2008
A few years ago, companies that needed highly specialized features would often opt for on-premise software with its attendant implementation and integration headaches instead of considering the relatively primitive on-demand offerings. SaaS has grown up, though - and the Platform as a Service model allows a level of configurability that early on-demand adopters could only dream about. 3 Jun 2008
It's hard to take a one-size-fits-all approach to analytics software. The ways in which analytics tools can be uses are about as varied as the companies using them. Today's software packages are often much more focused on the actual application of analytical approaches to specific types of decision problems and specific types of industries and niches. 3 Jun 2008
Revision3 isn't planning to sue MediaDefender for taking down its Web site with a denial-of-service attack over the long Memorial Day weekend, even though the network lost a bundle due to the outage. Instead, it plans to send the anti-piracy firm a bill for its trouble -- and a reminder that there's no law against using peer-to-peer file-sharing technology. 3 Jun 2008
Interest income, card charges, key to overall results. 3 Jun 2008
