Costa Rica on Saturday stepped up pressure on international mediators to engage in its territory dispute with Nicaragua, after Google Maps was cited in an incident that saw the neighboring countries dispatch forces to their joint border.The Internet search giant joined the fray after a Nicaraguan commander cited Google's version of the border map in an interview with Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion to justify a raid on a disputed border area.The area is hotly disputed by the two neighbors, ...

US News & World Report, which dropped its weekly format two years ago and went monthly, is now abandoning print entirely for the Web.US News & World Report management announced the move to go digital only in a memo to staff, which was obtained by the Romenesko blog at Poynter Online.The December issue of US News & World Report will be the last print edition of the magazine, long the number three news weekly in the United States behind Time ...

The mobile web is ripe for innovation. Barriers to entry have come down and the playing fields have been levelled. Software developers from all over the world are able to create apps that could become global hits. And as smart phones become more and more accessible to the masses, the market for clever, simple apps for mobile devices keeps getting larger and larger.Still not convinced? Here are four reasons why you, as a developer, should be focussing your attention on ...

Shares in Russian Internet company Mail.ru, an investor in social networking site Facebook, surged on their London debut on Friday. Shares in the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world were offered at 27.7 dollars each but shot up by 30 percent to 37 dollars shortly after the market opened.The shares are only being conditionally traded at the moment and will be officially available for open trading on November 11.The company, which was 34-percent owned by Arsenal Football Club ...

Some of Google's top executives and brightest minds arrive in Cape Town this weekend for G-South Africa, a two day outreach program to reach local web and mobile developers and tech enterpreneurs. The event is fully sold out and promises to be an unforgettable experience for all those attending.Bridgette Sexton is the Google executive directly responsible for organising the event, which will focus on building the developer and technology entrepreneur communities in Africa in order to improve the quality of ...

Millennial Media released its State of the Apps Industry Snapshot for 2010, in association with DIGIDAY and Wall Street analyst Jordan Rohan from Stifel Nicolaus.Here are the highlights:- Growth in cross-platform development: iPhone remains the number one platform of choice, followed closely by Android, iPad, RIM and Windows Mobile. Android, iPad, Windows Mobile, and Symbian saw the most significant increases from 2009, as developers continued to diversify away from iPhone to balance their application platforms.- Platform diversification to continue: Developers ...

Europe's justice chief Viviane Reding called on Thursday for new rules to give citizens more control of their online personal data, with the "right to be forgotten" from Facebook or Google.Reding unveiled proposals to update a European Union rule on data protection that dates back to 1995, years before the proliferation of social networking websites and web search engines."The protection of personal data is a fundamental right," the European justice commissioner said."To guarantee this right, we need clear and ...

The much-anticipated, controversial movie about the founding of social networking behemoth Facebook, simply called The Social Network, opens in cinemas around South Africa today. The staff of Memeburn were invited to a sneak preview by Integr8, and came out inspired and moved, for very different reasons.Here are 5 very different reasons you should go see the movie:Jeremy Daniel: Sheer inspiration. If you have the drive and the passion to build something that can change the world, then this movie ...

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 ...