The American couple, Pete and Alisha Arnold, who created a website where the public could vote on whether or not they should keep their baby, have decided not to abort, despite an overwhelming vote in favour of terminating the pregnancy.In a short blog post on Birth or Not from the 7th of December, the Arnolds wrote: "For those of you who have continued to ask about us after the final results were posted, we are indeed keeping the baby. ...

Here’s an interesting fact for you: 53% of all Facebook users play social games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars. Is that a surprise to you? Probably not. If you aren’t already chipping away at your workplace productivity trying to grow beets and raise sheep, then it’s a pretty fair bet you know someone who is. Social gaming is a global phenomenon.There are in the region of 550-million people on Facebook, so even if we round it off to a clean ...

A crying shop girl runs in front of a red convertible, staring down the driver as he screeches to a halt. "That Love Comes" has all the elements of Chinese television drama, only it is not on TV.The show is the first made-for-internet original production by Shanghai-based Tudou, a web site often described as China's YouTube. It now hopes to draw comparisons to HBO as well.Tudou -- whose name is the Chinese word for potato, a play on "couch potato" ...

The news broke in the early hours of Sunday, December 5th that a major acquisition in the African web industry had just taken place. Web4Africa Ltd, a leading web hosting company headquartered in Accra, Ghana has just acquired 100% control of Nairahost, a top web-hosting firm based in Lagos, Nigeria for an undisclosed fee.According to the official press release, The acquisition boosts Web4Africa’s current client base of over 8 400 to about 11 500 after an expected overlap of clients has been considered. ...

An anonymous group of hackers said on Wednesday they had launched online attacks to shut down the websites of credit card Mastercard and a Swiss bank that cut off business ties with WikiLeaks.The self-styled 'hacktivist' group dubbed Anon_Operation said in one tweet that "www.mastercard.com/ is down" and the site of the credit card giant could not be accessed from Geneva.On their homepage the group, which claims it is fighting for "freedom on the internet" and against censorship, designated mastercard.com as ...

Not content with a US$65-million payout from Mark Zuckerberg, Tyler and Cameron Winkelvoss have launched another lawsuit against the founder of Facebook, re-igniting the lawsuit that was at the heart of this year's gripping movie, "The Social Network."The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District Court in Northern California, rests on the fact that "their former friend lied to them about the value of the company". According to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, they "also claim that Zuckerberg is ...

What is the internet going to look like in 10 years time? Cast your mind back a decade into the past and the internet is almost unrecognisable compared to its current form. Technologies and services have evolved at a rapid pace, and the scale and volumes that are currently in place today would have been almost inconceivable at the beginning of the millennium.Does this mean that it is hard for us to predict more immense changes that might happen ...

Google has announced that there will now be a "viable third choice" in computer operating systems, in addition to Microsoft's Windows and Apple's Mac OS, via their newly-launched Chrome OS.Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced in San Francisco on Tuesday that the company's new operating system will be available on netbooks, to be released by Acer and Samsung around the middle of next year.Chrome OS is based on the company's successful Chrome browser, which claims to have 120-million users worldwide with ...

Can you imagine the scene? Nando’s marketing team, agency, digital team and PR trying to work out the best time to release the Nando’s CEO parody campaign. Phone calls to lawyers working out the possible action should Cell C respond, as could reasonably be expected, with a court interdict.I can almost hear it: "The best time to launch would be mid afternoon Friday -- no time for Cell C to react and to get to the courts, so at least ...

Amazon will make its Kindle electronic books available for reading on Web browsers beginning early next year, with people's digital collections saved in the internet "cloud."Amazon executives on Tuesday showed off "Kindle for the Web" at a Google press event introducing a new, swifter version of the California technology giant's Chrome software for navigating the Internet.Kindle for the Web was unveiled a day after Google opened an online electronic bookstore in a heavyweight entry into a booming market long dominated ...