Video footage apparently showing a tense maritime incident between China and Japan two months ago was posted on YouTube early Friday, threatening to further inflame a bitter row between the Asian giants.Japan's coastguard in early September arrested a Chinese trawler captain for allegedly ramming two of its patrol boats near a disputed island chain in the East China Sea, sparking strong protests from Beijing.Video footage taken by the coastguard of the incident has so far been shown only to Japan's ...

You work in an online industry, or at least deal with online marketers and web developers every day, but you don’t always get the tech, and you have to fake it when the techies start speaking. No need to be shy, you don't need to understand everything, just how it all fits together in the bigger scheme of things.Let’s take a whirlwind tour through some of the most popular technologies being used online today.HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) HTML is not ...

Foursquare is one of the hottest tech startups around but few Americans are using it or similar location-based services, according to a report released on Thursday.Only one percent of US adult internet users are using a "geo-social" service such as Foursquare or Gowalla on any given day, the survey by the Pew Research Centre's Internet & American Life Project found.And only four percent of online Americans use a location-based service that allows them to share their location with friends or ...

In recent months, many of Facebook's apps have gone through a dramatic facelift -- some were culled while others became powerful tools for business. Used properly, these apps and plugins can create interactive environments for users to engage with brands on different levels.Apps that allow you to create polls, quizzes and surveys have become valuable for gathering user data, conducting market research and fine-tuning products and services.If you're getting started as the manager of a Facebook Page, then ...

When someone unfollows you on Twitter, it either goes unnoticed or leaves you asking, “Why? I really liked him and thought he liked me”. It feels like that time in school when a friend stopped talking to you for no apparent reason. You wonder what you did wrong, and it takes a while to realise that sometimes it’s not you, it’s them. Here are 10 likely reasons you lost that follower, and suggestions on how to not feel so bad ...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. put MySpace on notice on Wednesday, saying the losses at the ailing social network were unsustainable and there needs to be improvement in the next few quarters."We've been clear that Myspace is a problem," News Corp. president and chief operating officer Chase Carey said during a conference call with analysts after the media and entertainment giant released its quarterly earnings."The current losses are not acceptable or sustainable," Carey said. "Our current management did not create these ...

During a Microsoft event held in Johannesburg yesterday, Mobility Business Group Lead, Nkosi Kumalo and Business Development Manager for Windows Phone, John Press, announced details of the imminent launch of Windows Phone 7 in South Africa.Despite presenting a demo of Windows Phone 7 on a prototype LG GW910 or “Panther”, it was revealed that only two HTC phones with WP7 will be initially available to South Africans. The two phones are the HTC Mozart and HTC Trophy. While the Mozart ...

On October 26, Qwiki, a new "information experience" platform, opened its doors to pre-invited users as an Alpha web product. As this year’s winning startup of TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, a lot of expectation is riding on co-founder and CEO, Doug Imbruce, who is promising to do nothing less than change the way we receive information.In its current form, Qwiki trawls the API’s of the web (including Wikipedia, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Yelp and others) to assemble (mostly) coherent, interactive ...

Facebook on Wednesday moved to become the heart of smartphone lifestyles by making it easy for people to find deals at nearby shops and connect with mobile software applications.The world's top online social networking service updated its mobile platform to let people check into third-party applications with a click of a Facebook sign-in icon and also let them see bargains available at local businesses."There is obviously a lot of change in the mobile space," Facebook founder and chief executive Mark ...

DreamWorks Animation and social game maker Zynga are teaming up to promote the upcoming movie "Megamind" inside FarmVille, one of the most popular games on Facebook.DreamWorks, maker of "Shrek," "Kung Fu Panda" and other hit movies, and Zynga said the promotion is the first of a feature film inside FarmVille, which claims 17 million daily players.They said that on Thursday the Megamind character from the movie, which opens in the United States on Friday, will launch his own "Mega-Farm" within ...