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Qualcomm is one of those companies that you've heard of, but that few people outside of the telecommunications industry know a huge amount about. That's not completely surprising considering its primary focus is research and development and its primary clients are big telecoms players. I chatted to James Munn, vice ...

Until recently, having an organic website rank in Google results with mapping was an easy feat if you knew what you were doing. The market, however, has become flooded with spammers. Google has once again stepped in, cleaning up mapping with actual premises; phone activation codes that verify a business’s ...

News Corp. officially sold Myspace after much speculation on Wednesday for a mere fraction of what it paid for the social network, bringing the curtain down on Rupert Murdoch's engagement with the one-time social networking star that was ultimately eclipsed by Facebook.Myspace, which was bought by News Corp. in 2005 ...

One of my recent obsessions is social commerce, the idea of shared shopping experiences online. On a global basis, Facebook has been leading the charge with socialising commerce in stores (check-ins at retailers) and online (using Facebook connect to link people in their activities across various sites.)One of the most ...

South Korea's Samsung Electronics expanded its patent war with the US giant Apple Computer on Thursday, asking the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban the import of Apple products into the United States.Samsung accuses Apple of breaching five patents related to wireless communications standards and mobile device user interface."The ...

Neo@Ogilvy, Ogilvy Cape Town’s digital media agency, recently hosted a global summit to discuss the future of digital media as well as to share insights and best practices amongst the Neo@Ogilvy group. Attended by nine managing directors from across Neo’s 39 offices worldwide, the discussion was lead by global CEO, ...

Having an online network specific to your field or profession makes sense. After all, you wouldn’t go to your accountant if you were a doctor looking for advice on a patient’s mystery illness. Networks specific to one’s profession can be helpful, not only in the collecting and exchanging of ...

Since March 2009, Google has been experimenting with targeted advertising to increase ad click-through rates on its popular "Ads by Google" contextual ads, that form part of the Google Display Network. Moving beyond showing ads that are simply relevant to site content pages, Google announced on Thursday last week, that ...

Google's quest for social importance seems to be never ending. The search behemoth has launched its own social network, Google+, which is an extension of your Google profile.A recent blog post by Vic Gundotra, Google's Senior Vice President for Engineering, stated that "online sharing is awkward. Even broken," and ...

Whether you're wanting to build a tech startup or enhance your company's online presence you are going to be facing two constraints. First, a limited budget and second, a tight deadline.A solution to these problems is a web development framework. Frameworks are built on top of programming languages and ...