This week’s app of the week: Reeder, a Google Reader client for iPhone that is beautifully designed, easy to use and powerful enough to keep up with all the latest headlines that your favourite websites throw at it. In real time.I’m a big fan of online content, I love how information and news can be spread like wildfire all over the ’Net, and that you can read it, comprehend it and spread it as quickly as it takes you to ...

Dear Sir Tim Berners-Lee,As the father of the World Wide Web, we think you deserve a Father’s Day message. After all, anyone who’s ever clicked a link, typed those three famous W’s, or even just seen a video on a friend’s screen is, in some way, your child. This, therefore, is a tribute to you, your web and everything we’ve managed to achieve with it.We’ve come a long way since that fateful day when you implemented the ...

The New Zealand rugby team have been banned from communicating directly with their followers on Twitter for the upcoming World Cup. This amid fears the microblogging website will prove a distraction during the tournament.With the All Blacks under pressure to ditch their tag as World Cup chokers when New Zealand hosts the rugby showcase in September-October, coach Graham Henry said the days of players freely tweeting their thoughts were over."We haven't had a policy up till now, we've just asked ...

In another case of why employees need to watch what they say online, a journalism intern at the Mail & Guardian has been suspended for an anti-Semitic statement on Facebook, leading to a very public spat involving the publication's editor.The intern, Ngoako Matsha, in a Facebook conversation referred to fellow commenters as "racists". The anti-Semitic comment in question read: "You racists! No wonder Hitler killed all the Jews, because you're all a bunch of racists."The conversation in question ...

Internet radio star, Pandora, made its Wall Street debut amid investor enthusiasm for technology stocks. Pandora's shares soared in early trading on Wall Street on Wednesday before paring gains at the close of trade.Pandora, which is trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "P," was priced at US$16 and surged to US$26 shortly after the opening bell.Pandora eventually ended the day at US$17.42, a gain of 8.9 percent.Pandora, which creates personalised radio stations for users ...

A recent poll by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project show Facebook users are more trusting, have more close friends and are more politically engaged.The survey of 2 255 American adults found that Facebook members who use the site multiple times per day are more than three times as likely as non-internet users to feel that most people can be trusted.People who use Facebook several times per day average nine percent more close, core ties in their ...

An increasingly crucial part of our daily lives, social media is changing the way we interact, work and live. As a truly people-oriented medium, it is even altering our concept of society and democracy. Governments, from Iceland to Nigeria, are coming up with innovative solutions for meeting the needs of their citizens.A fair amount of discussion at a recent World Economic Forum annual meeting held in Davos focused on the future of governance: "Governments today are operating in an environment ...

Let's be clear, the BlackBerry Bold 9780 is the best BlackBerry you can buy today, but should you? BlackBerry fans looking for a high-end BlackBerry experience have a choice between the 9780 and the Torch 9800, but there's a third contender on the horizon that might steal your heart in the end. Read on as we explore the 9780, offer advice for new and existing BlackBerry addicts, and look ahead.The handset itself is handsomely austere. Understated and almost completely black, ...

Researchers at Microsoft have been investigating the correlation between eye movement, or "gaze tracking", and mouse cursor movement on search engine results pages. The findings have some interesting implications for future search engine algorithms, and may help to improve the results returned for search queries.By measuring mouse cursor behaviour, such as clicks and hovers over particular page regions, alongside the results from an eye-tracking study, Microsoft has shown that areas of interest to a user directly correlate to mouse ...

LA Noire - Detective Phelps cuts a sharp figure in the neon light of Los Angeles. Hunched over the scene of a brutal crime, he pensively inspects each inch of a rusted pipe, stained with the blood of an unknown assailant. Music swells in the background, the crime scene has now been swept for clues. Detective Phelps knows that it is time to move on to the interrogation of the witness. Leaning against a ruby-red barstool, she draws back on ...