Summer holiday means long days, warm nights, and lots of travelling. To make your vacation more enjoyable we have selected a dozen of our favourite vacation apps for your BlackBerry smartphone. These little gems will help with flights, weather forecasts, social networking, restaurants, sightseeing, and more.Download these apps from BlackBerry App World and you will be prepared for your best vacation yet.1. WorldMate LiveWorldMate Live can turn your BlackBerry smartphone into a personal ...

Dear SantaI've been better behaved this year. For one, I finally tidied up my garage, sorted out my closet and apologised to our neighbor for setting his hedges on fire... again. And I gave up smoking (as a result of said neighbour's burning bushes), pretended to be nice to my relatives and kept my promise not to store jellybeans in random secret locations in our office. Okay, so I still swear too much on Twitter and poke fun at certain ...

The effective use of Google is critical for all businesses in the 21st century. But nowhere is it more relevant than in the hotel and hospitality industry. As we get into the business end of the holiday season, let's take a look at some of the key issues and examples to get a sense of how successful the South African hospitality industry is using Adwords.Let's start by doing a simple search on Google South Africa for "hotels":For the most ...

Looking to log-off but stay connected this holiday season? Whether you’re going to be travelling locally or abroad, working from home, or having a "Staycation" we’ve got four ways for you to make your time out of the office seem as if you haven’t missed a beat.As much as we love to deny it, today’s generation of online professionals are workaholics. We wake up and check our emails over our morning coffee, we monitor our projects on our lunch break, ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg -- on holiday in China, where his global social networking site is blocked -- met with the head of the country's biggest search engine Baidu on Monday, a spokesman said.Zuckerberg, 26, and Baidu chief executive Robin Li toured the company's offices in Beijing and had lunch together in one of the firm's "private dining halls", Baidu spokesperson Kaiser Kuo said."It makes sense -- he is interested in the Chinese Internet, he's made that very plain. Obviously ...

Online advertising spending in the United States will overtake spending on newspaper ads this year for the first time, digital research firm eMarketer said on Monday.EMarketer estimated that online ad spending will grow 13.9 percent in 2010 to 25.8 billion dollars while spending on print newspaper ads will drop 8.2 percent to 22.78 billion dollars.Including Internet ads, print and online newspaper advertising revenue will hit 25.7 billion dollars, eMarketer said, still below the 25.8 billion dollars advertisers will spend online."Marketers ...

Some well-known Yahoo! web properties, some of which were purchased during the web 2.0 era goldrush, have appeared on an internal "sunset" list leaked onto the web this week.They include social network for the blogger community MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Picks, social bookmarking service Delicious (formerly del.icio.us), Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz and search service AltaVista."We're actively thinking about the future of Delicious and we believe there is a home outside the company that would make more sense for the service, our ...

2010 has seen tech culture hit the mainstream in a big way, culminating in the announcement of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg as Time magazine's Person of the Year. YouTube was not immune to the geek phenomenon, as new gadgets and home tech experiments experienced a surge of interest. Check out this list of the most popular geek videos of the year, which range from the sublime to the ridiculous.1. Annoying Orange: Pacmania -- 11.45 million views2. iPhone4 vs HTC Evo ...

Facebook was deliberately shut down early on Friday morning for almost two and a half hours while staff fixed a glitch. In an official statement the company explained that "an automated system for verifying configuration values ended up causing much more damage than it fixed".According to Computerworld, this was the second outage in as many days for Facebook.Facebook was quick to address Thursday's error and admit the problem in public.In a Facebook note, the company apologised, stating: "Early today Facebook ...

At the same time that Google released the Chrome 8 browser, it also released its much-anticipated Chrome Web Store. The simultaneous release signals Google’s intention to change the “operating system and hard drive” mindset to one of “browser and cloud”.Although it will deny it, this is the most direct stab at Microsoft’s business model that Google has ever taken. It may not be directly competing in the desktop arena as many had hoped for, but platform independence brought about by ...