The internet is running out of addresses, and in the next few weeks the last of the four billion addresses available on the IPv4 standard will run out.With everything from smartphones to internet-linked appliances and cars getting online, the group entrusted with organising the Web is running out of the "IP" numbers that identify destinations for digital traffic.The touted solution to the problem is a switch to a standard called IPv6 that allows trillions of internet addresses."The big pool in ...

Like Alice going down the rabbit hole, or Dorothy on arrival in the Land of Oz when she pronounced, "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore," any new social media user is likely to experience a sense of bemusement and wonder.Regardless of which platform one uses, when entering the world of social media for the first time, a sense of bemusent and befuddled is an understatement.Classic stories such as The Wizard of Oz and Alice In ...

On Saturday, Apple hit the landmark that everyone had been anticipating, registering the 10 billionth download from the App Store, which offers more than 300 000 free and paid apps, for gadgets such as Apple's popular iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch."Thank you. Ten billion times. The App Store has reached 10 billion downloads. Thanks for getting us there," Apple said in a message on its website.In typical Apple-style, the company announced that the person who makes the 10 billionth download ...

Twenty leading professionals from all continents across the world will judge excellence in the fast-growing social media marketing industry via the The Bees Awards -- the San Francisco-based social media marketing awards.The event will once again award winners in more than 23 specialised categories, including eight new categories in the fast-paced social media marketing world. The ceremony will be held at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco on May 3, 2011 at 7pm and will be live-streamed over the ...

Facebook announced on Friday that it had raised $1.5 billion from investors in a private share offering that valued the booming social network at approximately $50-billion."Our business continues to perform well, and we are pleased to be able to bolster our cash position with this new financing," Facebook chief financial officer David Ebersman said in a statement."With this investment completed, we now have greater financial flexibility to explore whatever opportunities lie ahead."Facebook said US investment bank Goldman Sachs completed an ...

In early 2010, Facebook passed Google in website traffic. This is astonishing because Google has been the greatest growth story of all time. How could this be? What is fundamentally driving this behaviour? And what are the implications moving forward?U.S. Website Traffic, percentage of Total Visitors(Source: The Economist, Dec. 2, 2010)What distinguishes mammals from other animals is our need for true social interaction. Human beings are not wired to be alone. The most severe punishment meted out ...

Vanessa Raphaely, aka Hurricane Vanessa, is a force of nature in the local fashion and publishing worlds. Firing off humorous anecdotes, intelligent opinions and withering critiques at a rate of knots, she manages to hold a day job as editor of South African Cosmopolitan and editorial director of Associated Magazines, not to mention as publisher of Marie Claire, O, The Oprah Magazine and House and Leisure, while also blogging as Hurricane Vanessa and raising three children.On top of all ...

In an effort to shake up its internal culture and processes, Google announced that one of its co-founders, Larry Page, would replace industry veteran Eric B. Schmidt as CEO with immediate effect.With younger, smaller organisations like Twitter and Facebook mounting a serious challenge to its dominance, The New York Times reports that "Google has lost some of its entrepreneurial culture and become a slower-moving bureaucracy" -- a situation the company is desperate to reverse.The move is likely to ...

Just two and half years since its launch, the Apple App Store is about to clock in its 10 billionth download. This same feat took iTunes eight years to achieve. To celebrate, Apple is giving away a US$10 000 iTunes Gift Card to the person who downloads the 10-billionth app.To commemorate the occasion Apple has also created an iTunes page featuring lists of the top paid and free apps available for iPhone and iPad devices. Four of the top free ...

I'm constantly meeting companies that have moved part of their operations to San Francisco/Silicon Valley. Usually it is the CEO and/or the marketing and sales group that moves.Loic Le Meur, a serial entrepreneur, founder of Seesmic, did the same several years ago, moving to San Francisco from Paris. In a guest column in the UK Daily Telegraph newspaper, Le Meur explains why he moved:"In the Valley, the best companies, entrepreneurs and investors are all in one place. It feels like ...