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Google rolled out a new feature called "Place Search" on Wednesday to make it easier for users to find information about local businesses.Place Search eliminates the need to perform several internet searches by grouping multiple results about a specific location into one entry.A search result for a particular type of ...

Finally, one of the big corporates has stood up and staked its claim to the iceberg that was spotted off Clifton Beach on Monday morning. Speculation has been rife about who was responsible, and now fruit juice giant Liqui-fruit has digitally added pieces of fruit to the iceberg, then added ...

South Africa's premier domestic rugby competition, the Currie Cup, comes to a gripping climax this Saturday afternoon with the final between the Sharks and Western Province in Durban. But even though the game is still days away, the battle is already heating up on micro-blogging platform Twitter.Supporters of both teams ...

Politicians around the world have woken up to the potential of Facebook and Twitter as unfiltered platforms from which they can deliver their message to a receptive audience. But few have taken it up as effectively and with the same gusto as Nigeria's wonderfully-named President, Goodluck Jonathan.During the 1930's, ...

The Nobel Peace Prize website came under cyber attack from Taiwan, Norwegian telecoms operator Telenor said Tuesday, less than three weeks after jailed Chinese dissent Liu Xiaobo won the award."The site was compromised, or as is more commonly said, hacked," Frank Stien, in charge of computer security at Telenor said, ...

Doesn't it seem that the Facebook Like buttons populating the web have been there forever? In fact they were only introduced in June 2010, and are already being used on over 350 000 websites, according to the Wall Street Journal. Essentially, the Like button is a tool that allows users ...

The demise of the old media appears to have slowed but it hasn't gone away as the transition towards a digital business model continues to hold many challenges.We still haven't figured out how to transfer high quality old media to the digital platform. And that's an astounding position to be ...

PayPal unveiled a new micropayments service on Tuesday that makes it easier to buy digital goods and announced an integration with social networking giant Facebook.PayPal said the new micropayments system "lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, without ever having to leave a ...

Google, which has strained relations with publishers worldwide who accuse it of aggregating articles without compensation, says it is to donate $5-million (about R35-million) to encourage innovation in digital journalism.But the donation, a paltry sum in the face of significant losses by traditional publishers worldwide, is unlikely to mollify media ...

Ask web entrepreneur Stefan Magdalinski why he moved from London to Cape Town two years ago, and he points to a map that illustrates the technological revolution reshaping Africa.The map shows the 14 undersea fibre-optic cables that will link the continent's internet service providers to the servers of Europe and ...