Author: Gugu Lourie

Vodacom customers who had their accounts debited twice will be refunded by Monday, according to the cellphone company. By Thulani Gqirana, NewsAgency On Friday, a number of Vodacom customers complained that their accounts had been debited twice. In an SMS to customers on Friday afternoon, the cellular network said it was aware of the problem. “Dear customer, due to a technical glitch, your account may have been debited twice. We are resolving the problem,” the message read. “Where a second debit was processed, Vodacom will ensure that refunds and all associated charges are paid by close of business Monday at the…

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On December 21, the company SpaceX made history by successfully launching a rocket and returning it to a safe landing on Earth. It’s also the day that SpaceX founder Elon Musk was nominated for a Luddite Award. By Andrew Maynard The nomination came as part of a campaign by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a leading science and technology policy think tank, to call out the “worst of the year’s worst innovation killers.” It’s an odd juxtaposition, to say the least. The Luddite Awards – named after an 18th-century English worker who inspired a backlash against the Industrial Revolution…

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Hollywood has broken two very different records this holiday season. Star Wars: The Force Awakens has become the first movie to reach US $1 billion in gross sales in just 12 days. Star Wars opens in China in January and so it will likely push its sales to even more astronomical levels.

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The scene described in Nancy Jo Sales’s huge Tinder report published in Vanity Fair magazine featured groups of twenty-something friends and colleagues in a Manhattan bar relaxing after work. But rather than socialising with each other they were engrossed in the more private world of their mobile phones, seeking something completely personal: a sexual partner (albeit not necessarily just for sex).

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Over 70% of South Africans may be selling their unwanted Christmas gifts for a quick buck in January, according to a poll by Gumtree South Africa. By Staff Writer “It would appear that most South Africans feel that it’s best to let an item go rather than gathering dust,” says Claire Cobbledick, head of Gumtree Marketing. But Cobbledick confirms that an unwanted gift is not necessarily an undesirable item. A quick search on Gumtree reveals more than 900 items listed as unwanted gifts which includes, an unopened bottle of Dior perfume, a brand new 50” plasma TV still in its…

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