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Mvelase Peppetta

Mvelase is a graduate of UCT with a Bachelor of Social Sciences majoring in Politics & History. He has a blog, which sadly he often forgets exists. He concerns himself with the important things in life: Left wing social issues; politics, both international & local; television, the trashier the better; Britney Spears & Madonna, waiting for their latest releases and bacon. All these important issues and more you can find Mvelase dealing with on the aforementioned neglected blog, and the overtaxed Twitter account.

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• Indonesia threatens a BlackBerry blackout

  Picking on a bug-bear a number of other nations have also felt it necessary to carp about, Indonesian communication authorities have recently threatened to shut-down BlackBerry services should Research In Motion (RIM) fail to meet various demands.The Canadian-based maker of the popular BlackBerry smartphones, RIM, which has been in discussions with Indonesian authorities since the start of the year, seemed taken aback by the threats.In January, the Indonesian government made -- what media reports have repeatedly referred to with no ...

• TweetDeck ditches Adobe, launches new HTML 5 Twitter apps

  Coinciding with the launch of a new Twitter interface, TweetDeck has also undergone a drastic redesign.Along with the redesigned desktop version of the client, TweetDeck has also finally launched a web-based version 1 after months in beta. The web-based service is designed for those unwilling to install the serive on their hard-drives. Previously, the only way to access TweetDeck without downloading the client onto your computer was to install a Google Chrome plugin. With this new service, any browser can ...

• Samsung’s Australian Christmas wish against Apple granted

  Just in time for the integral Christmas sales period, despite Apple’s claims of copyright infringement, courts have ruled that Samsung can sell the contentious Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia.The sales ban, first instituted in October of this year, was one amongst many South Korea’s Samsung has suffered in its global copyright war against the Apple behemoth.In November, despite another court finding that Samsung could sell the Android powered tablet, Apple was able to get a temporary stay on that order ...

• ‘Christianist’ US Presidential candidate faces fire over viral YouTube ad

  In just over a day of being online, an advertisement -- which has gone viral -- of Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry has led to him facing staunch and sustained criticism online.In the 30 second ad, airing in the key battleground state of Iowa, a smiling Perry, the current governor of Texas, proudly declares his faith and promises to end what he terms “Obama's war on religion”.I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to ...

• Gay teen tells tale of fear, bullying, suicide in viral video

  A simple but heart-wrenching YouTube video, originally posted in August, of gay teen Jonah Mowry telling his story, has recently gone viral across the internet. Set to the haunting Breathe Me by Australian pop-singer Sia, a then-13 year old Mowry -- silent throughout -- displays a series of flashcards in the 4min long video titled "What’s goin on..".Mowry tells of how since he started school, he has faced taunts, jibes, and homophobic slurs from bullying schoolmates."Gay. Fag. Dick. Douche. Homo. Asshole," ...

• Web’s red light district ‘.xxx’ opens for business

  Following a concerted decade-long campaign, proponents of an online "red light district" -- a specific domain for adult entertainment sites -- can finally celebrate with the sale of ".xxx" websites going live this week. With reports that the web was running out of web addresses sparking off fears that an “iPocalypse” was imminent, earlier this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- a global body responsible for managing the internet’s domain name system -- voted to allow ...

• Assange granted legal lifeline as deportation order stayed

  Julian Assange has been given another lifeline in his fight to not be extradited to Sweden, with British courts ruling that he may take the fight onto the UK Supreme Court.Last month, the Wikileaks founder’s battle to not be extradited to face questioning over allegations of rape was dealt a blow when a UK court ruled that he must be deported from the UK to face Swedish authorities.By convincing two High Court judges that the case was of "general ...

• BlackBerry shareholders bail as stock slumps to seven year low

  It would seem the raft of new services and product offerings are either yet to bear fruit or have been pointless; because despite all its troubles, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion’s (RIM) shares have hit their worst levels since 2004.The clobbering RIM’s shares took were as a result of RIM finally admitting in an earnings outlook that sales of its much-maligned BlackBerry PlayBook tablet were not all that playful.Despite constantly dropping the price of the tablet, RIM has attempted to ...

• Smartphone addicts’ new excuses to take sick days

  With the rising popularity of smartphones, and more people coming down with conditions such as “text-thumb injury” or “text-neck”, it would seem bosses the world over may soon be facing a raft of new reasons as to why employees are unable to come in to work.A recent poll by YouGov, of more than 2 000 people, found that 44% of people in the UK used their mobiles for activities besides making calls for between 30 minutes and two hours a ...

• Groupon: We’re nothing like those other copy-cat group buying sites

  In his first official announcement since Groupon went public, the company’s CEO Andrew Mason has rubbished comparisons between his site and the countless copycats which have sprung up in the wake of Groupon’s initial success.For the many critics of Groupon (some who have gone so far as to refer to the business as a “Ponzi scheme,”) the relative ease with which one can duplicate the Groupon business model has been one of the primary critiques of the company.Mason took ...

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