On Monday The New York Times rolled out its paywall system which means readers will now begin paying for full access to the site. The site also dangled a heavily discounted introductory offer intended to lure its first digital subscribers.The newspaper is offering three digital subscription packages, including an all-access ...

You may have just launched an eCommerce site, or perhaps your business is considering the advantage of the massive online market space. Don’t underestimate the growing potential.For a start consultant Neil Turner has been passionately devising ways to ensure maximum online profit and we’ve identified six steps in ...

The South African government is reaching out via social media to the nation in an attempt to "stimulate a constructive Nation Building debate on values and ethics". The debate is taking place from the 28th of March until the 1st of April on the Presidency's Facebook page.This national outreach ...

Translate.org.za and its community of volunteer translators have customised Mozilla's hugely popular Firefox web browser to support Zulu. This is the culmination of work that started in 2009 through Translate's participation in the African Network for Localisation (ANLoc), a project funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).One day after ...

It's been a topsy-turvy week for The Bees, the international social media awards which debuted in 2010. On the 24th of March, an email went around the social media community announcing that the awards would be "postponed until further notice due to insufficient funding".But a search to the website ...

Sina, China's largest internet portal, said Tuesday it has replaced Google's search service on its websites with its own technology. A move that further dents the US giant's presence in the Asian nation."Our contract [with Google] ended this month and the whole websites are now using our own search technology," ...

February’s shutdown of three UberMedia owned Twitter platforms, most famously UberTwitter now named UberSocial, for “Terms of Service violations,” was seen by many as an attempt to force users onto Twitter’s official BlackBerry application -- Twitter for BlackBerry. A move that essentially suggested that Twitter would maximise current or future ...

We have all seen them, but how many of us have made good use of Facebook ads? The major selling point on a network site of users that surpasses the size of most countries is this: the ads only display on the Facebook pages of the exact people you want ...

Twitter's homepage normally houses a demo video that explains the microblogging site to newcomers. The video shows us the various way to use Twitter and how to get the most out of the site. The demo video has now been replaced by a new video titled: "Follow your interest. Discover ...

There's a lot happening in and around the African tech scene. Take a look at some of the most important developments.Umbono: Google’s South African IncubatorIn Cape Town, Google has initiated a tech incubator that gives 6 months of free space, US$25-50k startup funding and access to an extensive mentoring ...