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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.
It seems that all those pre-roll and pop up ads just weren't enough. If Google has its way you could soon be paying to watch videos on YouTube.According to a report by The Financial Times, the company is just days away from launching a paid-for subscription service, which would require users to pay between US$1 and US$5 a month to watch the videos posted by some specialist channels. It said that YouTube invited a small number of users to ...
You've probably seen it a thousand times, but do you really notice the subtle lines on Facebook beckoning you to post that photo, give it your information and update your status? Believe it or not, those little boxes are a major consideration for the social network, and mistakes could affect your posts. If you're not posting, you could miss out on a job opportunity: yes, recruitment agencies are starting to harness online data -- including that from social media -- ...
Four hundred million. Four. Hundred. Million. That's how many active email accounts Microsoft has amassed over on Outlook.com. Really.According to Outlook.com's group program manager Dick Craddock, the company hit the milestone yesterday after it finished moving over all existing Hotmail accounts to its brand new web-based email service. Before you start wondering how on earth Microsoft managed to get all those millions to sign up less than four months after the launch, consider the fact that there were already around ...
It's no secret that Facebook has been furiously working to silence the critics who keep talking about its "mobile problem": the social network has revamped its mobile apps, started rolling out a more mobile-centric look to News Feed and launched its new 'apperating' system, Facebook Home, to cement its place on your phone. Why is this all so important? Because more and more of its users are Facebooking on the move.According to the social network's Q1 financial report, it ...
Mocking your competitors to sell your own product is nothing new -- after all, Samsung's been poking fun at iPhone users and BlackBerry devotees since the launch of the previous Galaxy. But now it seems Windows Phone is joining the party.Microsoft's new ad for Nokia and Windows Phone is set at a wedding, where the bride and groom's families and friends are divided by their smartphones as much as the aisle. A decision by a guest to take a ...
With the success of the iPad, the global uptake in the number of tablet computers and the urgency that almost every manufacturer on the planet has felt to create its own 7-to-10 inch slate, you'd think the last thing the boss of any mobile company would be talking about is the death of tablets. Well, you'd be wrong. BlackBerry's Thorsten Heins apparently thinks the gadgets won't see out the decade.Bloomberg reported today that the CEO doesn't put much stock in ...
A moment of silence, please. The Google graveyard has just gained another resident.Ok, so technically it's not a Gproduct, but it was the flagship tool that got social startup Meebo noticed by major publishers and advertisers, before it was acquired by Google in June last year. But it seems the Meebo bar is destined for a short life span: the team announced that it would be discontinuing the social media and sharing bar on 6 June, as it shifts ...
Chances are that you caught up on the events in Boston on social media. But what were you reading: fact or fiction? Perhaps you tuned the chaos out all together and listened to some music. But did you switch to steaming or hit iTunes for your fix? Perhaps you escaped the news with an ebook and hit Amazon for the latest download for your Kindle. But what is the company learning about you through your clicks, and how could it ...
Wondering how many complaints from governments Google has to deal with on a daily basis? Well, if its latest transparency report is any indication, it's quite a lot -- and it just keeps increasing.The company revealed the latest batch of statistics designed to show its user how many take down requests it receives from governments around the globe. From June to December last year, the search giant says it received 2 285 government requests to remove 24 179 pieces ...
After grabbing some 90% of the search market in Europe, you'd think the last thing Google would offer to do is promote the services of its competitors. But that's what it's proposed, telling European legislators that it is willing to display links to competing services in search results in as prominent a place as it gives to its own G-products.The proposal comes as a response to the European Commission's investigations into the tech giant, which started in 2010 after it ...
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Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed. 
Lauren Granger: Staff Reporter 
