iPad 2 Announced for South Africa

iPad 2 Available in South Africa 29 April 2011Following the huge success of the first generation iPad, Apple recently released their successor the iPad 2.

South Africans had to wait almost a year before the iPad was released locally, in fact the first generation iPad was released in South Africa a mere 2 months before the release of the iPad 2 internationally. Good news is that this time around we will not have to wait that long.

Apple has announced in a press release that they will be launching the Apple iPad 2 in 12 other countries during this week and that includes South Africa.

Core, the local distributor for Apple products has also made recommended retail pricing available on their website from as low as R4399 for the 16GB iPad 2 Wi-Fi version.

Model Recommended Price
iPad 2 16GB Wi-Fi R4399
iPad 2 32GB Wi-Fi R5399
iPad 2 64GB Wi-Fi R6399
iPad 2 16GB 3G R5599
iPad 2 32GB 3G R6599
iPad 2 64GB 3G R7599

The iPad 2 will be available in South Africa from 29 April 2011 at the following retail touch points:
Apple Premium Resellers
Digicape Cape Town
iStore Canal Walk
iStore Clearwater
iStore Gateway
iStore Melrose Arch
iStore Menlyn
iStore 1 Sandton Drive
iStore Sandton City
iStore Vodaworld
iStore Waterfront
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WordPress 2.8.1 Released

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WordPress 2.8.1 fixes many bugs and tightens security for plugin administration pages. Core Security Technologies notified us that admin pages added by certain plugins could be viewed by unprivileged users, resulting in information being leaked. Not all plugins are vulnerable to this problem, but we advise upgrading to 2.8.1 to be safe.

What else is new since 2.8?  Read through the highlights below, or  view all changes since 2.8

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  • Translation of role names fixed.
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  • Styling glitch in the plugin editor fixed.
  • SSH2 filesystem requirements updated.
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