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In a much-anticipated move, Google on Thursday finally unveiled its free mobile application that seeks to turn smartphones into a replacement for credit cards.With financial partners Citibank, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint as service providers, the internet giant announced "Google Wallet".Google says the new application is still being ...

Microsoft unveiled the latest version of its mobile phone software and new handset partners on Tuesday as it seeks to claw back market share from Apple and Google. The Redmond, Washington-based personal computer software powerhouse said the update to its Windows Phone operating system, code-named "Mango," features over 500 new ...

As NASA winds down its Space Shuttle programme, it is using social media to grant the public unprecedented access to the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.Having already retired the Space Shuttle Discovery, this is the last mission for Endeavour.The public access currently given to the Endeavour via ...

Ubisoft is crafting a free-to-play online version of its popular "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon" shooter videogame. "Ghost Recon Online" is a deviation from the French videogame titan's roots making packaged titles for videogame consoles and comes with the rocketing popularity of online "social games" supported by ads or in-game transactions. ...

Predictions from upcoming Mobile Mindblast conference suggest that mobile ad revenues in South Africa totalled approximately R500-million in the last year. Year-on-year growth trends indicate that this figure will double by 2012. Estimates on mobile ad spend include display, search and message-based ads.Jason Probert, Head of Vodacom Mobile Media, a ...

Apple's biggest selling point for its Macs has always been the perceived imperviousness to "malware". The fact that what some regard as the world's first virus, "Elk Cloner", was a Mac virus seems to have exited people's minds.However, in the last couple of weeks reports of what may come ...

Thanks to the efforts of the Twitter community, new images of the film "The Dark Knight Rises" are now floating about the internet. It's a nonstop cycle these days, Twitter breaks the news, leaks photos and channels campaigns.That nonstop nature of continuous tweets is what makes Twitter so appealing ...

Last year's blockbuster release of Nicholas Cage's The Sorcerer's Apprentice featured the phenomena of musical Tesla coils. The spectacular scene when the male lead wows the female lead with his musical Tesla coils catapulted the concept into the mind of the masses. The audio modulation of the output sparks from ...

If you thought that a lawsuit seeking to individually sue more than 30 000 people for sending out 140-character-long messages in one fell swoop was ridiculous and would be thrown out, think again. Seeing as the trial seems to be progressing, Twitter has now in its own way -- through ...

According to Forbes magazine, Facebook and Spotify will be collaborating on a streaming music service at the world's largest online social network.A Facebook spokesman said on Wednesday that it had no news to announce on that front, but pointed out founder Mark Zuckerberg commenting at a G8 summit that the ...