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Stuart Thomas is a product of Rhodes University. Whilst completing his Bachelors in Journalism, Politics and English, he realised he was a bit of a geek, albeit one who unafraid of the sun. An honors in English at the same institution failed to curb this. An MA in South African Literature, only made it worse as it gave him even more hours to spend in front of a computer screen. He hopes to go viral one day.
Ask someone to describe Google and they’ll most likely end up talking about a search engine that saved the web. If they’re a little more interested in tech, they might talk about its funky campus, its Android mobile operating system, or its “don’t be evil” corporate ethos. Few would describe it as a highly-efficient, profit-driven business machine.The company is coming increasingly under fire for the amount of tax it pays, particularly in smaller countries where it rakes in ...
Yahoo has apparently approved a US$1.1-billion cash deal to buy out blogging platform Tumblr.The Wall Street Journal broke the news via Twitter, seemingly confirming rumours of the buyout, which have been floating around for a few days now.Breaking: The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr. wsj.com— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 19, 2013Tech pundits had expected Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer to announce the acquisition at a scheduled ...
The Google Glass team has moved to defend their creation against privacy concerns, saying that it was a top priority from the moment they conceptualised it."Privacy was top of mind as we designed the product," Product Director for Google Glass Steven Lee said during a fireside chat with developers during Google I/O.According to Lee, early prototypes of Glass covered the eye but the team quickly realised that eye contact was incredibly important. That's why the display on Google ...
A map is a map is a map, right? Except maps change and evolve, based on our knowledge, all the time and Google is looking to make the next big step in their evolution.The internet giant's mapping division says it's trying to build a future in which Google can "create millions of custom maps...each one just for you." These maps, it claims, will always be "adapting to the task you want to perform right this minute".The first steps ...
Microsoft has responded to a cease and desist letter from Google asking it to remove its recently released YouTube app from its app store.In the letter, Google claims that the app allows people to download videos and strips out all the advertising. While that might sound like some people's ideal version of the video-sharing service, it does mean that Google is losing out on revenue that is rightly its.In its response, Microsoft says that it will gladly show ...
There were always going to be questions around BlackBerry's decision to open up its BBM messaging platform and some of the loudest came from the stock market.Shares in the Canadian smartphone maker dropped four percent following CEO Thorsten Heins' keynote at the BlackBerry Live conference yesterday.During the keynote, Heins announced a new mid-range Qwerty phone for emerging markets, channels for BBM and the launch of BBM for iOS and Android.While the Q5, a 3.1-inch touch and keyboard ...
This is interesting. Outlook.com users will now be able to chat with their Google friends from within the webmail service.Since launching its revamped email service in mid-2012, Microsoft has done a number of things to try to get people to make the switch from Gmail. These include baking Skype-functionality into it, the ability to chat with your Facebook friends and an Android app (talk about going into the heart of the enemy's territory).When you open the Messaging pane ...
This is interesting. It turns out that something as simple as whether or not your tweet has an exclamation mark in it can determine how many retweets it gets.At least that's according to research conducted by social media scientist Dan Zarella. The research, he says, was conducted in response to a tweeted question from search guru Rand Fishkin and looks at the relationship between exclamation points in tweets and retweets and clicks.Zarella used a dataset of more than two-million ...
