Tonight on the show, the Carte Blanche Consumer team takes a look at just how much you are paying for the parts needed to repair your car and also the dangers of teenagers riding quad bikes on public roads.
Quad bikes
At age thirteen, CJ Richards lost his lower jaw in a quad-biking accident. And Ben Zeelie’s [...]
The virtual world and the real world have always been quite distinctive but are now merging. Whilst you might tweet messages to your friends or share photos of nights out on Facebook, there has always been some separation between reality and your online persona. Now there is an easy way to link the two. It’s [...]
Facebook has now officially launched Page Browser to speed up the process of browsing through Facebook pages and useful information from news feeds, so that users can find what they are looking for in a flash.
Not much has changed since Page Browser was first introduced unofficially: pages are still organised into nine different categories including [...]
President Zuma is planning to adopt a ‘hands-on’ approach to improve government performance and speed up service delivery. In November 2010 he will embark on a trip to visit a range of government facilities across the country: “We will visit the best and the worst hospitals, police stations, home affairs offices, social grant [...]
The Carte Blanche Consumer team tackles two topical issues on the show tonight: how the Consumer Protection Act will impact on gym memberships and how to protect your personal information online. In the meantime, read through our tips on how to tighten up your security settings on Facebook.
Hackers
There are growing concerns about giving away [...]
