Technology

All those wishing to enter this year’s Loerie Awards, the premier brand communication awards in South Africa and the continent, have until 31 May to do so.

A few days before the recent worldwide release of the Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man...

Independent Online reports that the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has reduced its commitment to Cape Town’s planned fibre optic network..

A collection of satirical sketches from the long running American television variety show, Saturday Night Live (SNL), is being compiled for the Internet...

Voicebank, a service by which clients can search and access voice clips and artists via a website, was first launched in 2002...

On 9 May, South African pay-TV broadcaster M-Net announced the winners of its EDiT Film and EDiT Online Awards in Johannesburg...

The ninth annual TCM (Turner Classic Movies) Classic Shorts competition launches this May with a truly international flavour to its judging panel which this year includes South Africa’s Darrell Roodt, Wolfgang Petersen, Istvan Szabo, Agnieszka Holland, Mikael Hafstrom, Rutger Hauer, James Franco and Nick Goldsmith.

Business Day reports that Tavern TV, aimed at South African shebeens, will be launched in August by the Provantage Group.

The Cannes Film Festival, which runs from 14 to 25 May in Cannes, France, will screen a classic movie from the Warner Bros archive during each night of the festival to pay tribute to the studio’s 85th anniversary.

The six studios represented by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) - Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal, Walt Disney and Warner Bros - have won a copyright infringement lawsuit amounting to $110m against file-sharing websiteTorrentSpy.