Reporting from the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco.Project Titan is a secret no longer.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that the company will begin rolling out a "modern messaging system," a tightly-integrated experience that will enable users to manage their e-mail directly from Facebook.com.Zuckerberg was clear that e-mail is only a part of the new offering, however.Young people find email 'too slow'"We don’t think that a modern messaging system is going to be email,” he said.  Facebook's existing ...

Way back in February of 2010, Michael Arrington wrote on TechCrunch that "Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully-featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer." Facebook has been in lockdown all summer long developing a range of new features, and commentators are expecting big things from the event. Memeburn's San Francisco correspondent ...

Apple plans to make an iTunes-related announcement on Tuesday.The California gadget-maker said there would be "an exciting announcement from iTunes" at 7:00 am Pacific time (1500 GMT) on Tuesday but declined to reveal any further details."Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget," said an Apple teaser for the announcement on the home page of Apple.com.Apple launched the latest version of its online entertainment store, iTunes 10, in September along with a music-centered social network, Ping.According to Apple, more ...

Today marks the beginning of a new age -- at least that’s what the folks at Facebook’s PR department would like us to believe. The momentous event? Facebook are believed to be launching fully fledged email capabilities for all their users. (Memeburn's Silicon Valley correspondent Kevin Grant will be live tweeting and writing from the event on this site: 10am San Francisco time; 1:30am Asia-Pacific Time; 8pm Central African Time CAT)That means all Facebook account holders will soon be able ...

InMobi, the venture-backed mobile ad network with a focus on Asia, Africa and Indonesia, has announced African results from its landmark study "A Global Consumer View of Mobile Advertising".InMobi provides advertisers and publishers a display mobile advertising platform that claims to reach 50-million Africans through nearly three-billion ad impressions monthly. Of this figure the largest market is South Africa -- with one-billion impressions and 20-million consumers monthly making it "one of the highest monetised markets in the world". ...

As recent news has shown, the South African government has started showing a significant interest in the media. Take, for example, the highly controversial Protection of Information Bill which is seeking to restrict mainstream media and, in my honest opinion, to impose yet another layer of control by our seemingly well-intentioned and morally-astute government over the equally well-intentioned and morally-astute opinions of the media.Social media is not escaping the government's scrutiny either. Certain factions are poking their un-splintered, ...

Newsweek, the venerable but struggling US magazine, and two-year-old news and blog site The Daily Beast joined forces on Friday in a marriage of print and pixels.Tina Brown, The Daily Beast founder and a former editor of The New Yorker, will be editor-in-chief of the new media entity, to be called The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, the two companies announced.The Washington Post sold 77-year-old Newsweek to California billionaire Sidney Harman for one dollar three months ago with the 92-year-old audio ...

VC4Africa, an online community dedicated to connecting innovative, Africa-based entrepreneurs with access to knowledge, markets and capital has announced a new "online venture capital matchmaking platform"."Many investors are looking for businesses to get involved with but have difficulties finding promise. At the same time many businesses seek knowledge, capital and practical support. Without matchmaking their potential is never realised, hindering economic growth," says Ben White, its Amsterdam-based founder.White claims the VC4Africa community currently consists of 10 000 members worldwide and ...

Computer gamers who like a challenge can now take on one of the toughest around: saving the entire planet, this time from climate change.Billed as a strategy game with a social conscience, "Fate of the World" sees players try to protect the world's climate and resources while managing a growing population demanding more power, food and living space."'Fate of the World' is a scenario-based game where you run Earth for 200 years and you save it or potentially destroy it. ...

Google's most important launch this year was its recent debut of Google Instant search which cuts user search time by as much as 40%. Google users are collectively saving 11 hours per second. That means 11 hours per second being spent away from Google search.Google is betting it that if its users spend less time on search then it will make more money.This is a different strategy from that of Facebook which wants to be the stickiest place on the ...