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While studying towards her Bachelor of Journalism degree at Rhodes University, Lauren gave into her fascination with everything digital. As she was more interested in creeping tech sites and Twitter than she was in picking up one of those printed things called 'newspapers', she decided to specialise in New Media in her final year. She now works as a reporter for Memeburn, where she enjoys writing about piracy and online censorship, questioning the methodology of infographics and playing snake on YouTube for research purposes. She's also a second year Masters in Media Theory and Practice student at the University of Cape Town.
Android. Yahoo. Tumblr. Facebook. Google. Some of the biggest names in tech are well documented, but there are still stories to be told. Like, what really happened around the time of Facebook's less-than-stellar IPO? Is Android really 'winning'? What happened to get Yahoo! to this point? Where did the ideas that spawned Tumblr come from? How (and why) did Google kill off Google Talk and Google+ Messenger to create Hangouts?Intrigued? The answers lie in the articles included in this installment ...
It seems like a little Israeli startup may just start a bidding war between tech giants. While rumours have been swirling around that Waze, a crowd-sourced navigation app which cleverly helps you avoid everything from traffic jams to speeding fines, is reportedly an acquisition target for Facebook, it may not be the only company interested in handing over some cash.According to Bloomberg's sources, companies like Google also entered into talks with the navigation startup after the rumours around a ...
What do you get when you pack 1 500 or so geeks into an auditorium, chuck in inspiring speakers, secret performances and a few T shirt guns? That could only be Net Prophet.This year's tech event features personalities and thought leaders like TechCrunch Europe Editor Mike Butcher, PriceCheck's Andre DeWet, former rugby player and entrepreneur Bob Skinstad, FONK cofounder Erik Jan Bijvank and professional speaker slash comedian Don Packett, who will all be sharing the stage with promising startups ...
The latest major victim of a malicious online attack? That would be the South African Police Service. According to a report by eNCA, the country's police website was hacked on Friday, with the attackers publishing the names and contact details of anonymous tipsters who have been informing the police of crimes since 2005.The Anonymous-affiliate who has claimed responsibility for the attack, who goes by the Twitter handle '@DomainerAnon', says the move was motivated in response to death of striking ...
Photographer looking for a place to store and display hundreds of high res images, which you can upload on the go? Flickr just became a serious contender. Yahoo! has given the photo sharing site a massive makeover, culling white space and all that boring text to make it all about the images. Oh, and it's offering every user a terabyte of free storage for their images.The redesign was announced at an event in New York and via a blog ...
What do you get when you combine a Facebook app with data about human rights abuses? That would be Trial by Timeline. Following in the wake of a number of similar interactive Take-this-Lollipop-style sites, this campaign by advertising agency Colenso BBDO for the New Zealand arm of Amnesty International scans your Facebook profile for 'crimes' that could get you lashed, stoned, imprisoned or beheaded in countries around the world.The site, which was originally launched late last year, has been gaining ...
Yes, there is a new round of Glassware (seriously, that's what they're calling it) available for the 2000 or so lucky early adopters who are currently walking around with a pair of Google Glass on their faces. Until recently, the only third-party apps available for Glass were from the New York Times and social network Path, but no more: now the list extends to include Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, CNN, fashion title Elle and productivity app Evernote.The introduction of two ...
It's official: more than 50-billion apps have been downloaded from the Apple App Store since it was launched in mid 2008. With iDevice usage climbing monumentally since then, no one's doubting the success of the App Store, as more and more owners of iDevices are logging in to get their hands on everything from Instagram to Angry Birds.It's not a milestone that Apple has let sneak by unnoticed: to draw attention to the fact that its App Store has ...
Yes, you read that right. You finally have a simple way to receive your inheritance from the long-lost relative who somehow obtained your email address prior to dying with lots of cash. Kinda. Google has expanded the functionality of its mobile payment service, Google Wallet, to allow users to send and receive money over Gmail.Of course, there are a few catches: the service is currently only rolling out to users over the age of 18 in the United States, ...
Finally. After years of rumours and cries for a cross-platform service, BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is headed to phones that don't carry the company's logo. As CEO Thorsten Heins revealed at BlackBerry Live yesterday, the popular instant messaging app is headed to Android and iDevices later this year -- but can it find a foothold among all the messaging apps clogging up the various app stores?Despite the worldwide marketshare BlackBerry has lost over the past few years, BBM, which is a ...
