Facebook on Wednesday began letting users form cozy cliques as part of a move to give people more control of their information at the world's most popular online social network.A Groups feature that lets Facebook members set up private online havens for clusters of co-workers, family, teammates, or others was unveiled at a press event at the firm's headquarters in the California city of Palo Alto."We think that what we have out of the box, version one, blows away everything ...

Die Antwoord, the faux-trailer trash South African hip-hop group, has just released the full version of their latest new music video on their Facebook page with the post "Evil Boy Music Video is here!"The group became an overnight, world-wide sensation when their first video single, "Enter the Ninja" appeared on popular blog Boing Boing, and then went viral on YouTube with millions of views at the beginning of this year. The band relied heavily on promoting their songs via Facebook, ...

Is it a book? Is it a film? Is it a game? Or all three? Publishers and authors at the world's biggest book fair are battling to entice a new generation of readers with the latest multimedia products.That the electronic book reader has turned the book industry on its head is well known. Younger readers are no longer content to thumb through a printed book. The 21st century iPad generation wants interaction and variety.But talk of the "ebook" that has ...

The Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship has appointed Judi Sandrock as Chief Entrepreneurship Officer (CEO) to oversee the rebranding of the Branson School of Entrepreneurship, which was established in partnership with CIDA City Campus in 2006.The new CEO has more than twenty years of experience in large corporate environments as an expert in enterprise development, organisational leadership and knowledge management. She was a key figure in the design, development and implementation of Anglo Zimele Small Business Hubs, a corporate enterprise development ...

Smartphones powered by Google's Android software were the most popular among US consumers over the past six months ahead of the Blackberry and Apple's iPhone, the Nielsen Company said on Tuesday.Thirty-two percent of new smartphone buyers in the United States purchased a handset running Android during the period, Nielsen said.Twenty-six percent chose the Blackberry operating system from Canada's Research in Motion and 25 percent chose the iPhone, Nielsen said.Nielsen said that among all US smartphone owners, Blackberry remains the leader ...

Memeburn received an overwhelming response to its iPad competition, launched early last month. Entries were being tweeted right up to the last second. Selecting the winning Tweet was no easy task and our staff carefully considered all the entries before finally deciding on a winner.Together with online shopping site WantItAll, Memeburn decided to give away this amazing prize to the person who could motivate on Twitter the best reason why they deserved to own a brand new iPad .Readers had ...

The BlackBerry PlayBook has been at the forefront of tablet news over the last week, with tech pundits hailing it as the third competitor in an otherwise two horse race between the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and Apple's iPad. Research In Motion (RIM) co-Chief Executive Mike Lazaridis revealed the BlackBerry Playbook, a 7-inch tablet device hailed as the “first professional tablet” at their annual BlackBerry Developer Conference held in San Francisco last week.Smaller than the iPad and measuring 130mm x 193mm ...

The theory of “six degrees of separation” as envisioned by Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy in 1929, has now been narrowed to five degrees on Twitter, according to social media research company Sysomos.The original premise of Karinthy's theory is that technological advances in communications and travel would allow friendship networks to grow larger and span greater distances. This would in turn mean that every person on earth is connected to everyone else via six steps, or in other words six people.Sysomos ...

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it would release a smartphone and tablet PC in Japan before December, its latest move in an ongoing battle with US giant Apple.The planned launch of the Galaxy S smartphone and its first tablet PC, the Galaxy Tab, in Japan comes amid growing rivalry with Apple at home and abroad.Samsung launched its Galaxy S domestically in June, seven months after Apple's iPhone hit South Korea. Samsung has since launched its smartphone in China and ...

Apple has decided to challenge a legal decision that could see it pay up to 625.5-million dollars in fines for infringing several patents, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.The firm's decision came after a federal jury in Tyler, Texas found Apple had infringed on three patents belonging to a company called Mirror Worlds in products including its iPod, iPhone and Macintosh computers.The jury awarded Mirror Worlds 208.5 million dollars in damages for each patent infringement, but the verdict has ...