Growing up in the nineties, television and film made me believe that hackers could do anything. I pictured an emaciated Russian teenager typing on the keyboard of his multiple monitor display, green text scrolling down a black screen. Those scrawny fingers could assume identities or muddle up traffic lights. They ...

Mobile is the world's fastest growing platform. As a result many individuals and firms have turned to mobile applications to more effectively engage their audience. This is no easy task, however, since creating these apps requires a good command of advanced programming languages such as Objective C (iOS) or Java ...

We’re starting to get some whiffs of the iPhone 5, some real, some imagined. It is supposed to release in September, and bets are that Apple will once more comprehensively conquer the cool end of the smartphone market. Gearburn has sniffed around, and come up with our predictions of what ...

In the midst of the rise of social media and mobile marketing, email marketing still continues to rake-in an impressive ROI, but that doesn’t make it any easier to get right.Eye catching, relevant content, SPAM filters, deliverability, design and rendering are just a few of the aspects that marketers ...

We here at Memeburn know you our esteemed reader. Being the busy people you are we know -- that, try as you may, and as interested as you are -- it’s not always possible to keep up with everything.In light of that, starting today, you can expect this weekly ...

Nokia’s latest attempt to win back market share with its N9 phone received mixed reviews this week as it was shown to analysts and media at ComminAsia in Singapore. It is likely the last major phone Nokia will show running the promising Linux-based mobile operating system before it throws its ...

The US Federal Trade Commission is poised to open a formal antitrust probe into whether Internet search giant Google has abused its dominance on the Web, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the matter," said the FTC is preparing to serve Google with civil ...

SEACOM, the privately owned African internet connectivity provider, this week announced it had reached a deal with Mozambique to provide a new link to landlocked and much beleaguered Zimbabwe.In a press statement, the ICT company stated it had, "...signed a Master Services Agreement with Telecomunicações de Moçambique (TDM), the leading ...

After the response to the "Social Media Rate card" of popular radio DJ Gareth Cliff, key questions have arisen about how people and companies disclose their advertising relationships on social network platforms.Of course anyone, including Cliff, are in their rights to advertise products via "word-of-mouth" to their Twitter followers or ...

Google was founded on the mantra of "give the users what they want and the rest will follow" and the launch of +1 (Plus One) is an attempt at just that.The search giant realised that Facebook’s "Like" button allowed Facebook access to key data concerning a user’s preferences online. ...