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WikiLeaks has unleashed a fresh torrent of more than a quarter million confidential US cables detailing a wide array of potentially explosive and embarrassing diplomatic communiques.The episode is now being dubbed "#cablegate" after the Twitter hashtag, which started to trend on Sunday night after selected information from the cables ...

Governments around the world braced for the release of millions of potentially embarrassing US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks as Washington raced to contain the fallout.The whistle-blower website is expected to put online three million leaked cables covering US dealings and confidential views of countries including Australia, Britain, Canada, Israel, Russia ...

US authorities have shut down dozens of websites offering counterfeit goods and pirated music, five months after a crackdown on sites offering movie downloads.Cori Bassett, a spokesperson for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, said ICE had "executed court ordered seizure warrants against ...

After the exhaustive stranglehold that comedian Trevor Noah and mobile operator Cell C have had on the South African media landscape, it appears that Nando's is ready to reclaim the attention it feels it rightly deserves.The South African peri-peri chicken giant's commercial features comedian Kagiso Lediga parodying Trevor Noah ...

A Swedish appeals court Friday shortened the prison terms of two founders and a financier of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, but increased the damages to be paid to movie and music firms."The Appeals Court, like the district court, finds that The Pirate Bay service makes possibly illegal filesharing ...

It is often claimed that Cape Town’s Table Mountain contains a greater number of plant species than the entire British Isles. So what is it, exactly, that causes certain environments to flourish with biodiversity and rapid evolutionary specialisation, while others lag behind?Steven Johnson’s latest book, Where Good Ideas Come From, ...

Email marketing is one of the most powerful weapons in the online marketer's arsenal, provided it is used in a personalised and engaging manner that takes into account the ways that social networking has changed online interaction and communication over the past five years.Ironically, the rise of social networking ...

The Philippine senate has begun streaming sessions live on the internet, in keeping with President Benigno Aquino's pledge of government transparency, officials said.The online broadcasts, which began this week, are also part of the five month-old government's aggressive use of the internet and social networking media to engage the public ...

Giant, monolithic corporations have never been ones for the “sharing is caring” motto. Sometimes they have valid reasons for being against the open source society we are headed towards, but most times they don’t. In fact, it normally comes together around a single issue: the bottom line.For years the ...

Online clothes shopping has evolved from traditional mail-order catalogues plonked onto a website into a multi-billion dollar industry that gives anyone the chance to own the world’s top designers and brands – if they can afford it of course. Now Google has entered the fray with Boutiques.com, a concept that’s ...