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Online anonymity is an issue fraught with emotion. It often inspires passionate arguments from both sides and opens windows into the deeper and darker aspects of our societies. So what, exactly, is the big deal?Firstly, it is important to clarify exactly what online anonymity is. It is very closely related ...

The New York Post reports Mustafa Fteja of the city’s Staten Island borough is suing Facebook for half a million US dollars, after the social networking site cut off “his access to friends and family around the world, as well as to personal memories and photos”.The 39-year old said he ...

People all around the "twitterverse" have been bragging about signing up for an exclusive invite to a site that does... well, hmn.... what it does is still unknown.But the site in question, Hipster, is a placeholder that has been generating some serious online buzz. Click onto the site and ...

South African internet users in January were more interested in finding out about last year’s Matric results than SA’s latest overseas cricket tournament, reveals Google Zeitgeist -- a tool that provides insight into search trends."Matric results 2010" tops the list of fastest rising searches in SA over the last ...

Over the past few years, social media has ballooned from being a small, emerging niche into a major force in the online marketing and advertising space. However, those who lived through the dotcom boom-and-bust cycle can't help asking whether we are about to see another bubble burst.After all, the hype ...

Free Press, the non-partisan lobbying organisation, reports that US companies are involved in providing technology that helps the Egyptian government monitor protesters on the internet and mobile phones.Free Press issued a statement that claims:"Boeing-owned, California-based company Narus sold Telecom Egypt, the state-run internet service provider, 'real-time traffic intelligence' equipment, more ...

In an exclusive interview with CBS News's "60 Minutes", WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Sunday detailed a plan to release a deluge of secret documents should the whistleblower website be permanently shut down.Assange said his group had a "system whereby we distribute encrypted backups of things we have yet to ...

In a sign of official unease about the unrest in Egypt and the fact that it could spark calls for reform at home, Chinese censors are apparently blocking online discussion and sanitising news reports on the subject.Keyword searches on the protests returned no results Monday on microblogs and the reader ...

As the anti-government protests continue to grip Egypt and the call for an end to President Hosni Mubarak's 30 year regime gets louder, the rest of the world watched in amazement as the government's security forces systematically began taking down all forms of telecommunication and online social media, bringing the ...

The news of the hospitalisation of living-legend Nelson Mandela has sent shock-waves through the world with users on major social networks posting their well-wishes and expressing concern. Earlier this week, the former South African president was admitted to Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg with a collapsed lung.Twitter has kept ...