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As everyone’s favorite micro-blogging platform, Twitter’s high rate of adoption by businesses isn’t surprising. Among other reasons, Twitter’s large user base, especially in countries like the US, means it is an effective way to extend your brand’s reach to large groups of people at a low cost, as well as ...

The Singapore-based mobile social network and chat service mig33 claims to have grown to about 40-million registered users almost exclusively by virtue of its Java (J2ME) application.The J2me application is available on about 2 000 different mobile handsets since the service was founded in 2006.mig33 is riding a wave ...

With the release of Apple's latest iPhone and iPod operating system iOS4 last week, the quality control team at the iTunes App Store has been hard-at-work approving updates to iPhone applications in the past week.Not only does this mean loads of updates for users, but it also means a ...

Western Cape Premier and Democratic Alliance Leader Helen Zille has taken charge of all the web has to offer; including a Facebook Page, Twitter Account and even a Flickr Pro Account for her photos.The busy politician recently made time to answer a few questions about social media as a tool ...

A new South African start-up, Waytag, is setting out with the ambitious goal of revolutionising the way we think about and use addresses. Location-based services are clearly a strong feature in most fast-growing web services and applications, such as FourSquare, GoWalla and Twitter. It can however sometimes seem like these ...

South African bank First National Bank (FNB) rolled into a crisp and windy Cape Town last night with a challenge to entrepreneurs to embrace the opportunities presented by its new partnership with international e-commerce giant, PayPal. It was The Silicon Cape's, a local body formed to support and promote ...

With the current surge in popularity of smartphones and web-capable phones, increased focus has been put on designing for mobile. There are however some marked differences between designing for the web and designing for mobile. Here are some must-have tips which cut through the mystery of designing for mobile phones.Before ...

Google this year will bring four speakers and trainers to the influential pan-African journalism gathering, Highway Africa, to be held in Grahamstown at the start of July.Andrew Bangs, Community Marketing representative at YouTube will speak about the rise of citizen journalism across the globe, and the significance of the ...

Google has had a long string of failures. It encourages its engineers to spend 20% of their time developing side projects but when those projects reach launch stage, their take-off is nearly always very disappointing.Take a look at some of Google's failures. Colin Gibbs reporting on GigaOM:Google Lively was a web-based ...

A major Africa-focused new media conference, Highway Africa, is to focus on "African Voices in the Global Media Space" from the 4th-7th of July in the small university-town of Grahamstown.The conference, which is expected to be attended by about 500 delegates drawn from over 40 countries, claims to be the ...