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The 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship, open to entries from every country in Africa, is awarding up to $350,000 in prize money to successful entrepreneurs.Owners of profitable, growing enterprises (with annual revenues between US$1 - 15 million) can submit entries online until August 24, 2011. The Grand Prize Winner ...

Thanks to Barack Obama's successful use of social media in the 2008 elections, all politicians seem to have discovered Twitter and Facebook. From Cory Booker, the US mayor who tweeted his way through his city's snow crisis, to South African political parties sometimes brilliant use of social media in the ...

US technology writer Nicholas Carr is worried about what the internet is doing to our brains."The seductions of technology are hard to resist," Carr says in his new Book 'The Shallows', which has sold an estimated 50 000 hardback copies in the United States alone.But he thinks it's time ...

When looking at the "Ryan Giggs case", in what some are referring to as a landmark ruling regarding free-speech and the internet, Twitter has released the details of UK users to a British local council.The particulars are that four officials of South Tyneside Council, unhappy with a blog run by ...

In my travels along the social commerce road so far in South Africa, I’ve often been told that SEO plays no role in bringing in traffic to to group buying site.There are generally two kinds of sites, when you look at traffic: those where you want to rank well on ...

Like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, the US military's largest contractor, Lockheed Martin in a recent statement confirmed that it had faced cyber-attacks.The US-based multi-national defence contractor described one of the attacks as "significant and tenacious".The attack which apparently occurred on the 21st of May was immediately detected by ...

On Tuesday Sony announced its plans to restore PlayStation Network services worldwide except in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, after being targeted in a massive online attack in April.The electronics and entertainment giant said users in the Americas and Europe and much of Asia will again be able ...

Memeburn already ran an article on Bitcoin before, where Matthew Stone brought us up to speed on this new crypto-currency that seems to be taking the world by storm. Stone voiced some concerns about governmental clampdown on the new currency, and not without good reason.Firstly, at its anarchic root, ...

It would be easy to damn the Toshiba Satellite Pro L650 with faint praise. It’s alright. It’s a midmarket fairly powerful notebook with a pleasantly understated design. If you’re looking for a work or home or college laptop PC in the US$600-odd range (closer to US$1000 in developing markets), you ...

The Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conferences bring together luminaries from a wide range of fields. They come to delight and entertain us with stories of their endeavours -- told in less than 18 minutes. We have hand-picked ten of the coolest videos:Featured below are journalists, scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs ...