In a move which some would call "bound to happen", e-cigarettes have now begun to integrate social features into its design. E-cig maker blu has launched what it is calling the "Premium Smart Pack", their socially-aware cigarette pack.The cigarette pack has mobile phone-like features, such as an animated logo, a charge indicator for the pack and spare battery, as well as its ace-in-the-hole, the social button. Pushing the button sends out a signal which identifies other blu smokers and ...

A report from the Korea Economic Daily says Samsung has teamed up with Microsoft to make a new tablet computer powered by Windows 8. Citing an industry source, it said the new tab would be unveiled at Microsoft's BUILD developers' conference in California next week from September 13-16."This new product manufactured by Samsung will be the company's first collaboration with Microsoft in its hardware devices," it quoted the source as saying.Read more on Gearburn.com

The adult entertainment industry has been pushed into its own domain, ".XXX". ICM Registry, the administrators of the launch are opening up the doors to any site which wishes to adopt the .XXX moniker.Websites can now pre-register or even protect their brands from being registered onto the domain. Those interested in acquiring this top level domain should click through to ICM Registry to sign up. This is the beginning of the process, known as "Sunrise".Sunrise A is for ...

I remember the glory days of Facebook. We used to share voraciously on our news feeds. Our movements. Interesting links. Videos. It was where the conversation happened. Daily. And then came Twitter.The real conversation (and the real-time one) shifted to Twitter. The shift was slow to begin with, which made Twitter a hollow place. After all, if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?Today, revolutions are sparked on ...

I've been thinking of not writing this piece in order to let the criminal underworld continue to operate, wrapped tightly in the warm blanket of incompetence. However, if you're an aspiring hoodlum or simply a curious, law abiding BBM addict, this article might be of interest to you. I draw from Ronen Halevy's analysis at the excellent Berry Review, so click through if you're interested in some further reading.There's this notion that communication from BlackBerry to BlackBerry is always secure. ...

Recent reports that South Africa's government was looking to regulate the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service were greeted with dismay and anger.In a recent speech, South African Deputy-Communications minister, Obed Bapela, called for called for new regulations that would allow police and intelligence authorities to access messages sent via BBM.Following heated reactions and international news reports on the matter, Bapela's boss, Communications minister Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie, has issued a "clarifying statement" saying that, "government has no intention to regulate or legislate ...

Speaking to your constituents once meant getting up on a podium and shouting into a microphone. Twitter and Facebook are now the global platforms for instant communication and politicians have taken to it like a duck to water. Listed below are a group of politicians who use Twitter and Facebook to talk to their faithful followers.South AmericaChile President, Michelle Bachelet -- Facebook fans: 295 097Her Facebook site is growing in popularity, and she recently began (and abandoned) a Twitter ...

Remember Rebecca Black? The girl that turned Friday into something more than just another day of the week? That one. The meme that never seemed to go away.Some of the best things that came out of the Black world were the parodies.You may have thought we had gotten over this and that we had all moved on, but we haven't. So here's a little gem that has somehow worked Braai culture into the parody, and it's gaining traction. ...

Cybercrime costs the world US$114-billion every year. That's according to a report from global software security firm Symantec. The report adds that some 431-million adults have been victims of cybercrime in the past year.When adjusted to include financial losses and time lost, the global cost of cybercrime goes up to US$388-billion. According to Symantec, this means that cybercrime costs the world significantly more than the global black market in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined (US$288-billion).Globally, every 14 seconds, 14 ...

Popular South Africa radio DJ and rugby commentator, Darren Scott is trending world-wide on Twitter, following his use of the "K-word" late last week.The incident in question occurred at a work function, after Scott lost his temper at a colleague, Africa Tshoaedi. In a recent statement from Scott's PR team, Tshoaedi's presence at a bar after being told leave by Scott was seen as "provocative and [Scott] used strong language to tell the colleague to go away. In doing ...