Last month Apple updated its line of iPods with the "iPhone without the telco" version of the iPod Touch, complete with Retina Display and more interestingly, FaceTime. Having spent almost six months on a Wi-Fi only iPad, I was anticipating that the FaceTime feature would be more useful than most were expecting.

It's the start of a busy gadget season that usually kicks off with a frisson of excitement with a certain ‘fruit' company's music product refreshes. Last week, Apple sent out invitations that simply have a guitar with an Apple logo replacing the soundhole on it, inviting the media to a Stevenote this Wednesday, 1 September 2010.

In an article first published in AdVantage magazine’s February 2010 issue, immedia Head Strategist Anice Hassim says that operating from the ‘primordial ooze’ of Durban makes for a hotbed of creativity and allows for a free style of thought and ingenuity that takes a company from good to great...