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Get Ready for Mother’s Day 2013!

Posted on: May 8th, 2013 by Henno Kruger No Comments
Mother's Day is coming up this week Sunday, the 12th of May 2013. Over the years this has become one of the most celebrated holidays globally. Contrary to popular belief, this age old holiday dates back to the time of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and is not a made-up holiday. Let's face it folks, your mother is the most special person in your life. Remember all the times that you've cried on her shoulder? Chances are that your mother is the reason that you passed matric or that you got your driver's Read more [...]

Junk Mail Wins ICMA Innovation Award

Posted on: May 3rd, 2013 by Henno Kruger 7 Comments
Great News! Junk Mail has won the ICMA (International Classifieds Media Association) Innovation Award for the Junk Mail Xchange platform on Mxit! The ICMA is a premier global community of leading players in the Classified Media Industry. The organization was founded in 1986 and it's mission is to sustain growth of the Classified Media Industry by enhancing exchange and facilitating change. The ICMA is based in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Mxit supports over 3000 feature phones and is one of Read more [...]

The Cell Phone Turns 40

Posted on: April 4th, 2013 by Henno Kruger No Comments
Most of you reading this article have a cell phone. This very useful piece of technology celebrates it's 40th birthday this week. It's almost impossible to imagine a world without cell phones in this day and age. Cell phones have come a long way over the past 40 years. We've gotten so used to our lightweight smartphones with cameras, colour screens, calculators, stopwatches, GPS systems and more, but many of us forget that cell phones were not always this advanced. Once upon a time everyone Read more [...]

Watch the Night Skies for Comet ISON in November 2013!

Posted on: March 11th, 2013 by Henno Kruger No Comments
Comet ISON (also known as C/2012) was discovered by Vitali Nevski (in Belarus) and Artyom Novichonok (in Russia) on the 21st of September 2012. Follow-up observations were made the next day from Remanzacco Observatory in Italy using the iTelescope network to confirm their discovery. The official name of the comet is simply "C/2012 S1"  The addition of "ISON" after its name identifies the organization where its discovery was made (the  International Scientific Optical Network in Russia). Read more [...]

Observe International Women’s Day Today!

Posted on: March 8th, 2013 by Henno Kruger No Comments
Today (the 8th of March 2013) is International Women's Day. Most of you reading this article have special women in your life. Today is the perfect day to pay homage to them. The focus is different in various regions of the world for this day. It ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements in some regions to  an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way that could be described Read more [...]

Aggregator sites: What to hate and what to love

Posted on: March 6th, 2013 by Ruan Fourie No Comments
An Aggregator site is a site that takes content from other sites to display as their own. Some Aggregator sites only collect information from a specific website or they collect things that are specific to their user's needs. If you place and ad on Junk Mail, Job Mail there is a big chance that your ad content will be taken (by scraping) and displayed on an Aggregator site. There are some positives and negatives to this which you as the advertiser or user should be aware of. What Read more [...]