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Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.

Michelle Atagana has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. She has been hanging around the Internet since she was 11 back in proper Netscape days and even found a way to get not one, but two degrees out it. She blogs with moderate regularity and tweets with alarming consistency and works tirelessly at memeburn.com.

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• The Great Gatsby gets Twitter all abuzz

  Proof that good literature still matters! Or that Leo DiCaprio is still an A Lister. Either way Twitter is abuzz with the trailer for the Great Gatsby. If are a fan of the brilliant Baz Luhrman and have read and loved F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby then you have been waiting for this movie since Warner Bros. announced it.Luhrman’s interpretation of the novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, and Tobey Maguire as Nick ...

• Google finally closes Motorola deal, brings in new CEO

  Last year Google announced that it had acquired Motorola Mobility for "a total of about US$12.5-billion". The deal had punters speculating about whether it was the cellular company's technology or patents that were more important to the internet giant. Moreover it was also left open for months after the initial announcement.In an an official blog post Google co-Founder and CEO Larry Page confirmed that the deal had finally gone through:...our Motorola Mobility deal has closed. Motorola is ...

• We can’t live without the internet, it can’t live without us

  "We have a symbiotic relationship with the internet, we cannot live without it and I am pretty sure if it could think, the internet could not imagine existence without users," says Yasushi Okamura, Global client director at Oracle.Okamura, who was addressing the audience at the Korea Communications Conference, suggests that human beings have undergone a symbiosis with the internet that has enabled both parties to evolve greatly in the last 25+ years."We have evolved and adapted the internet into ...

• Television in the social era: It’s not about your audience

  Yes yes we get it, television is getting more social and we can now follow are favourite TV shows on Twitter and Like them on Facebook. Smart TVs allow us to watch and share and that's pretty awesome, but what does all that actually mean for the future of the telly?According to John Cabral of Viacom Media Networks, a new medium is on its way. Speaking at the Korea Communications Conference, Cabral argues that the "current distinctions between the internet ...

• The right to be forgotten: A path to the future

  Earlier this year European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said that internet users had a "right to be forgotten" -- the idea being that anyone should be able to delete all the data they have online at any time, except in cases where there is a legitimate interest in maintaining information in a database.According to the new EU policy, the "right to be forgotten" simply "would allow people to request that their information be erased and not disseminated online."Research fellow ...

• Tomorrow’s online world: Regulating Google & Facebook

  The internet is a big place and companies like Facebook are dominating major parts of it. The concept of regulation has been floating about for a few years now and, more recently, Google and Facebook have found themselves in front of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) following privacy violations.What regulators are doing now isn't a very accurate approach according to Matthew Howett, Ovum's regulations and policy practice leader. At this year's Korea Communications Conference, Howett explored the new disruptive ...

• Beyond connectivity: The ‘gigabyte revolution’

  The latest trends in mobile are leading the "gigabyte revolution" which will take us to the one gigabyte per user per day by 2020, says CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks Rajeev Suri.The evolution of mobile technology will lend itself to an era where connectivity will be a human right and download speeds will be 10 times what they are now.Suri was speaking at the Korea Communications Conference, which explores the journey of mobility and its future potential."Connectivity will ...

• The future of convergence: Next steps for the smart era

  Technological evolution has brought about many changes to human life and has served as a "big momentum for growth" for emerging market economies.That's according Suk-Chae Lee who was speaking at the Korea Communications Conference about our connected natures, the future of smart convergence and the new opportunities they provide.Lee is the CEO of KT Corporation, a South Korean integrated wired/wireless telecommunication service provider."People are now living in world where they can be connected wherever they are with introduction ...

• MXit launches its own geo-fenced payment system

  Think First National Bank's Geo-payments is cool? Well it's not the first. Apparently MXit has been doing it for a while.According to the Stellenbosch-based startup, its staff has been using a "geo-fenced mobile payment" system since early April. The application is called Gust and a Beta version is expected to be ready in June.MXit earlier this year announced its mobile payment system, dubbed M2, which it rolled out to restaurants, allowing users to pay for meals using the platform.MXit’s ...

• Google+ Hangouts on Air now available to all

  Google Plus introduced Hangouts On Air last year to a limited number of broadcasters, which allowed them to "hangout" with many of their fans for all the world to see. The internet giant is now extending Hangouts On Air to everyone, according to a blog post by Google's Engineering Director, Chee Chew."Today we're excited to launch Hangouts On Air to Google+ users worldwide. So if you have something to say—as an aspiring artist, a global celebrity, or a concerned citizen—you ...

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