Mobile data traffic will grow 10-fold between 2011 and 2016, and mobile broadband subscriptions are expected to reach almost 5-billion in 2016, mainly driven by video, according to a report by mobile communications giant Ericsson.The report is based on measurements the company recorded over several years in live networks covering all regions of the world.The key findings of the report state:Mobile broadband subscriptions grew by 60 percent in one year and are expected to grow from 900-million ...

Apple's voice-activated assistant Siri is a direct threat to Google’s search engine. That’s according to the internet giant's chairman Eric Schmidt."Apple has launched an entirely new approach to search technology with Siri, its voice-activated search and task-completion service built into the iPhone 4S," Schmidt acknowledged in a written response to the Senate antitrust subcommittee.He also pointed out a number of other challengers to Google's internet dominance, including Facebook, Twitter and traditional search competitors like Yahoo! and Microsoft Bing."Social networking ...

Stirring controversy is nothing new to the world of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Echoing the horrors of the infamous “No Russian” level from Modern Warfare 2, the highly anticipated Modern Warfare 3 features a scene which will most likely stir emotion, fill forums and incite Fox News style exclamations across the world.A leaked video (which has now been pulled “due to a copyright claim by Activision Games”) depicts a brutal act of violence which hopes to top the ...

Specifications and pricing for the new Motorola Xoom 2 have been released. GBP£379.99 (US$608) is the official price of Motorola’s Xoom 2, the successor to the well received Xoom. The price comes a mere day after the official launch of the Xoom 2. The slimmer, faster and easier to use Xoom 2 mirrors the ethos of the iPad 2, which also promised its fans a "faster, thinner, lighter" product.Pricing the device below GBP£400 (US$640) means Motorola has managed to smash through ...

A Memeburn story has won the Social Media category at the Vodacom Journalist of the Year 2011 awards.The story, Twitter breaks news, but will it break journalism? written by Memeburn contributor Herman Manson, focuses on the impact, both negative and positive, that Twitter has as a reporting tool. The article's position can effectively be summed up in its lead sentence:"Twitter's value to breaking news quickly and efficiently is beyond doubt, but the accuracy of the news being ...

Social media has changed the nature of advertising. Companies target consumers through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Going viral used to be an organic process, now it's part of a product's campaign goals from the start.Every now and then, though, an advert will completely surpass the expectations of the people behind it. The place where most of the videos are viewed, shared, commented on and viewed again is YouTube.With this in mind, Memebeurn decided to have a look at ...

Back in the early 1800s a group of disgruntled artisans based around Nottingham, in the UK, began a movement that opposed the new technology that was being introduced into England as the industrial revolution gained steam. The Luddites, as they were called, felt that the introduction of all of this new-fangled technology was ultimately going to increase productivity but that the requirement for human labour would diminish.The rich would get richer, through their use of machines, and the poor would ...

US late-night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel, on Halloween, issued a bold challenge to parents in the US: "Tell your kids you ate all their candy and post the reactions on YouTube".Whilst he, and the parents who took him up on the challenge, certainly must have known the reaction would be strong, that it would prove to be so funny was probably unexpected.For the average American kid, Halloween is possibly the most important nights of the year.It’s not the chance ...

After a tumultuous journey, Groupon Inc. is finally trading. Early reports from news agency Reuters say that shares in the group buying site rose 46% in "hectic early trading on Friday".This puts the shares at US$29.15 or 46% above the company's US$20 IPO price a few minutes after opening on the Nasdaq, says Reuters. This gives the company an US$18-billion valuation.According to the news agency:"The company on Thursday sold 35-million shares for US$20 each, raising US$700 million. It had filed ...

Kim Kardashian’s now infamous divorce has dominated the Twittersphere this week. In fact, days after the announcement, the topic was still trending (her cuckolded ex-husband, Kris Humphries whom no one here had heard of until the wedding, was trending alongside his ex). Kardashian herself has contracted a serious case of denial which, when it comes to Twitter, could be fatal.Kardashian is usually a prolific Tweeter, keeping her followers entertained with her "pearls of wisdom". Then the divorce was announced, ...