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Social media has practically been used in every way known to man. It is not surprising, therefore, that the next phase in social media usage lies in businesses' corporate social responsibility portfolios.Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of self-regulation incorporated into a company's business model. The goal of ...

Sony chairman and president Howard Stringer on Tuesday apologised to shareholders and customers over a massive data leak, which helped push its share price to a two-year low this month."In April, we faced a serious challenge in the form of a cyber attack launched against the PlayStation Network, Qriocity and ...

Probably the most significant development in smartphone technology, apart from the technology itself, is the rise of mobile applications. In fact, the International Data Corporation predicts that the number of mobile application downloads worldwide will grow from 10.9-billion in 2010 to 76.9-billion in 2014 and mobile app revenues will surpass ...

At the beginning of the month, Google announced that it was phasing out support for older web browsers like Internet Explorer 7(IE7) for any of the Google Apps suite -- Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and others.It is not a particularly bold move, since IE7 is only used by ...

Mortal Kombat 9 – It’s hard to imagine a world without Mortal Kombat, the nasty little fighter which attempted to steal the thunder from Street Fighter’s legion of followers. Many of us have grown up with Mortal Kombat, peering over the shoulders of the older boys in the arcades as ...

Few of us would turn down the use of a personal concierge service. With the rise in busy lifestyles and the need to still get the more mundane tasks of everyday life sorted, one online startup reckons it has a solution.Cape Town-based Lessfuss is an online personal assistance service ...

Jabra Extreme bluetooth headset – Mystifying. To go to so much effort to engineer such a device, make it look nice and put it in a smart box. A pair of $5 ‘buds with one side chopped off will do much the same job. So much technology, so little point. It ...

If you thought a saturation point in social gaming had been reached, think again. More virtual livestock looks set to be traded and petulant fowl hurled at targets as the genre takes hold in the booming mobile phone market, industry experts say.Social gaming, made popular by titles such as "Farmville" ...

Like the landing lights at an airport; Landing Page Optimisation is there to ensure that your visitors know exactly what they need to do on your site and then actually do it. But where does Landing Page Optimisation/Website Optimisation fit into your online strategy?Web strategies are only as good as ...

Following an internet rampage which ranged from the silly -- defacing a news site to show that TuPac, famed US rapper, was alive -- to the serious -- attacks on key US government sites, including the CIA, Lulzsec has announced that it is closing up shop.In a document loaded ...