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Skype announced an agreement on Wednesday with corporate telephone provider Avaya to bring the internet communications service to US business customers.A technology blog, the Dow Jones-owned AllThingsDigital, reported meanwhile that Luxembourg-based Skype was also set to announce a partnership with Facebook that would integrate Skype services into the social network.Skype ...

Luke Mckend will join Google South Africa as Country Manager on 1 November 2010. Originally from South Africa, Luke has been with Google since 2006, working as an Industry Head in Google’s London office. In the UK he was responsible for managing a wide variety of businesses across the ...

The organizers of thought-sparking TED conferences, known for changing the way people look at life, are challenging advertisers to do the same.In a spin on its mantra of "Ideas Worth Spreading," TED on Tuesday launched an "Ads Worth Spreading" contest that offers winners access to the global ted.com online stage ...

The advent of social media and online social networks has drastically changed the way we communicate. Not only are we able to consume information about any topic from anywhere in the world, but now anyone with any idea or message can make their message go viral across the world.But ...

Storing a document to last for a long period of time in one physical location is not only difficult, but risky as well. Secure digital file storage is also problematic, with risks of lost external drives, corrupt hard-drives, missing discs amongst the many potential problems. The easier and supposedly safer ...

A recent study conducted by SmartData Collective pinpoints the most frequently used and popular words in social media -- and those that are most likely to get you retweeted.The company used a system of predictive analytics that employed text mining to analyse more than 3 000 posts and identify the ...

What The Trend, which bills itself as the "Front page of the real-time web" (the company has also trademarked the phrase), tries to make sense of what is trending on Twitter. Every week the company compiles a list of what is trending and why.Last week, the world was buzzing ...

Congratulations to Michael Arrington and team on the TechCrunch acquisition by AOL. Techcrunch is a leading Silicon Valley technology blog ranked 302 on Alexa's worldwide rankings and near to being one of the top 100 largest sites in the US.The terms of the deal have not been made public, however ...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, warned on Tuesday of the "blight" of new laws being introduced across the globe allowing people to be cut off from the internet."There's been a rash of laws trying to give governments and internet service providers (ISPs) the ...

With annual global sales skyrocketing to over US$150 billion, and robust growth that has shaken off the recession, tourism is the 'top selling commodity online', according to Damian Cook, Founder of E Tourism Frontiers.This is good news for South African Tourism, the organisation responsible for increasing tourism to South ...