As a result of climbing international oil prices, South African consumers must face a fuel price increase next Wednesday, 5 May.
The petrol price will increase by 14 cents a litre, and the diesel price by 29.5 cents a litre.  Read more on the Business Day site.
Image sourced from bbc.o.uk.

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President Jacob Zuma and his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, have signed up for a public Aids test at the national launch of the HIV counselling and testing campaign (HCT) on Sunday, 22 April 2010.
The aim of the campaign is to encourage as many South Africans as possible to actually go ahead and be tested so that [...]

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A new electronic queuing system will soon be rolling out, to ease the waiting periods at Home Affairs. Visitors are to receive a number to indicate their place in the queue.
The new system will assist the department to obtain useful information such as, how long visitors have been queuing and how many people visited a [...]

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After months of delays and deliberations, Icasa unveiled its draft regulations regarding the cut in interconnection rates today. It proposes to decrease cell phone interconnection rates by 27% in July 2010, from 89c per minute to 65c.
Icasa also announced that there would be two further cuts, to 50c in July 2011 and 40c in [...]

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Vodacom’s the Grid, South Africa’s only location based mobile social network, has partnered up with e.tv to show the mood of the country after the weather report on the Sunrise morning show (weekdays from 6am to 8am).
The Grid subscribers can now set their mood to either ‘happy’ or ‘sad’ and a Mood Map will be [...]

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On 9 April 2010, Google added site speed to their search ranking algorithms.  Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests.
Google will measure page speed in terms of how a page responds to Googlebot, and the load time as measured by the Google Toolbar.
Site speed is one of about 200 different [...]

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In a recent News24 column, Alistair Fairweather uses a Greenpeace campaign against Nestlé to demonstrate how powerful “desktop activism” and social media campaigns can be once they begin to snowball and gain momentum.
Fairweather concludes that “desktop activism” is the start of a movement – not a movement in itself: “does desktop activism replace real world [...]

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After MWEB announced last week that it would be offering uncapped broadband for the first time, rival @lantic shot back the next day with a similar offer, and Afrihost has just undercut both providers with their new uncapped packages.
On 18 March 2010 MWEB announced that it will offer uncapped broadband packages in South Africa. [...]

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In a recent IOL poll, only 4% of consumers said they would pay for online news. Their reasoning for this varied, including the fact that there are other means to hear, see and read about the news, other than online; so why pay for something that can be easily retrieved through other media?
The impact of [...]

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According to a recent article on Sky News, President Barack Obama is looking for a “social networks manager” to take charge of his MySpace and Facebook pages and keep his Twitter account up to date.
The first question which popped into my mind when I read this was “If I didn’t have time to post my [...]

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