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A Twitter community in South Africa rallied to prevent a potential suicide this weekend, as a Durban-based mother of two dramatically tweeted an attempt to take her own life.The drama unfolded at 9:17pm on Friday night, with a series of tweets over a few hours from the user asking how ...

Rumours are circulating around the industry that the popular instant messaging application and mobile social network, MXit, is about to be sold to new investors.MXit is represented in a number of international markets including Malaysia, Kenya, India, Indonesia, United Kingdom, United States, Nigeria, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain, ...

US Internet firm Yahoo! and Japan's SoftBank have announced that they have reached an agreement with their Chinese partners at Alibaba Group in a dispute over online payments platform Alipay.Alibaba Group -- which is 43 percent owned by Yahoo! -- "will continue to participate in Alipay's future financial performance, including ...

Microsoft has RTMed the new "bet the farm" version of its Windows Mobile platform to manufacturers, with device shipments expected in stores Spetmber earliest. According to Microsoft, it features over 500 new features and faster browsing with Internet Explorer 9.It's novel interface design has attracted a mixed, but generally favourable ...

Social media is no longer just about Twitter and Facebook. Granted, at the time of their release, both of these entities rewrote the rules when it came to sharing our lives online. Facebook made it easy to become a voyeur of the lives of soon-to-be moms who you dated at ...

Applications; what a few years ago was something we filled in when we wanted a job, has become an integral part of the way we use technology. In the war between Android, iPhone and BlackBerry, apps are tossed about like hand grenades.What started out as an honest effort to ...

Steven Levy, a senior editor at Wired, spent a lot of time at Google researching his new book, "In the Plex". He also spent a lot of time with the new CEO Larry Page.Mr Levy says Google is now in the hands of "a true corporate radical".In an article for ...

Gadget lust. I've had it. I have it a lot actually, and if you're reading this then chances are, so have you. I've heard you emphatically proclaim your love for your iPhone; yes, loud enough to make the Android geek three cubicles down solemnly roll his eyes. Gadget man Joshua ...

The majority of businesses in emerging markets are still quite hesitant when it comes to moving their organisational processes to the cloud. This is in part due to the perception that a comprehensive move to cloud-based services is a viable option only for those organisations able to pay for high-quality ...

After a blog post to the Android developers blog, the penny has dropped as why the Honeycomb 3.2 update is actually a big thing. It allows proper support for 7" screens. Until now, mid-size tablets fell into the cracks between smartphones and full-size tablets, with apps often unable to swap ...