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The Core Group continues to screw South Africa

I wanted to post this a week ago, but as I had bought the new iPod nano as a gift for a loved one, I didn't want to spoil the surprise. About two weeks ago I started hunting for a way to get the new iPod nano delivered to my door before the 23rd of September. I tried to convince Amazon to deliver to SA, I tried BH photovideo as well as local some local stores like wantitall and have2have. Although wantitall and have2have could get them for me, they couldn't guarantee that it would arrive in t...

Xbox Live finally coming to South Africa ?

This morning while I was listening to one of my weekly podcasts (ZA Tech Show Episode 80) and yawning through the Halo: ODST review, Simon Dingle makes reference to John at M$ SA about the imminent release of Xbox Live locally. Now I know we've heard this before, but something about this conversation gives me hope that something really is about to happen. I hope the guys over at ZA Tech don't mind but I've cropped their audio clip down to the relevant part to make it easy for you to li...