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WikiLeaks used its Twitter account on Tuesday to reveal that it was under a new cyber attack, just three days after a similar incident which occurred as the website began releasing secret US diplomatic cables."We are currently under another DDoS attack," WikiLeaks said on its official Twitter feed.DDoS stands for ...

Fanfou, a Chinese Twitter clone that was shut down by authorities last year amid fears it was fanning unrest in the country, has apparently resurfaced.Fanfou, which is widely believed to have been the first Chinese provider of such micro-blogging services, was restored last Thursday, the Beijing Evening Post reported.Fanfou had ...

Facebook is revisiting its promotions and competitions guidelines for its wildly popular Pages functionality.Facebook Pages are effectively mini-websites within the social network used by companies to tap into the social graph.Running competitions and promotions on Pages has become an increasing source of mystery and obfuscation for companies, which has most ...

I love the Nando’s CEO campaign, but it’s still an old school advertising campaign in the 'interrupting the viewer' model. There is no doubt that it's witty and clever and it uses multiple channels effectively, but I am not convinced that it will retain appeal after the initial reaction from ...

Congratulations. You can now make your voice heard via Facebook or Twitter, and tell your least favourite companies exactly what you think about them. But does that give you the right to be rude and obnoxious? Do you even realise that there are real people who have to respond to ...

Google received the news on Tuesday that it was to be the subject of an antitrust probe by European Union competition watchdogs. The Commission intends to investigate whether the internet giant abused its dominant position in the online search market."The European Commission has decided to open an antitrust investigation into ...

Do not be alarmed if you cannot find your daily dose of high-flying celebrity on World Aids Day, the 1st of December. There is nothing wrong with your Twitter feed, and your Tweetdeck is working fine. But celebrities like Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys are abandoning Twitter until ...

With over 97% penetration of mobile phones in South Africa and almost 9-million people capable of surfing the web on their phones, it is only natural that marketing via the mobile phone is on the rise. With this hefty number of surf-capable mobile users comes an even heftier proliferation of ...

In an interview with Forbes magazine WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed a fresh "megaleak" will target a major US bank "early next year".Speaking to the magazine, Assange said that he was ready to unleash tens of thousands of documents that could "take down a bank or two".Comparing the documents ...

A computer hacker known as the "Jester" who calls himself a "hacktivist for good" is taking credit for temporarily taking down the WikiLeaks website.WikiLeaks.org came under a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Sunday shortly before it began releasing the first batch of some 250,000 US diplomatic cables.The "Jester," a hacker who ...