I remember riding my bicycle to my friend’s house. In the summer after school, we'd jump off his house's roof into the pool. The sky was as blue as sapphire. For better or worse, with nary an LCD in sight, this moment began and ended with us.Mix-tapes. I miss mix-tapes. I miss making them, sharing them, and listening to them from start to finish. I bet that if I were to find a box of them them today, they’d ...

Already a magnet for tourists and young artists, Berlin is attracting a new generation of internet start-ups, changing the ways scientists interact or musicians store and share music.So much so that US internet giant Google is preparing to open a research centre in the German capital.Based in the top floors of an anonymous building in former communist East Berlin, for example, SoundCloud, launched in 2008, is one of the fastest growing companies in the music world.The online platform allows users ...

Google's entry into the online travel sector was cleared for takeoff as the US Justice Department gave the green light to its US$700-million purchase of flight data company ITA Software.The Justice Department's anti-trust division, however, extracted a number of concessions from Google and imposed conditions on the internet search giant to allow the controversial acquisition to go ahead.The proposed legal settlement, which will need the approval of a US District Court, requires Google to notably develop and license ITA's travel ...

Xbox LIVE would like you to help us make history and become record breakers! On Saturday 23rd April we will be attempting to join hands across the world and break the Guinness World Record for the ‘largest online 100m sprint’ via Kinect Sports and Xbox LIVE.Brought to you by Xbox LIVE and Kinect Sports, the record attempt will challenge millions of our members across the world to create a new record for the 'largest online 100m sprint'.To be part ...

As far as location based networking is concerned, Google has been ahead of the game in several ways. Early last year the corporation secured a patent for location-based advertising and last month, Google took a shot at the popular location-based social network, Foursquare by offering users check in rewards at the SXSW conferences in Austin.Now, Google has taken it a step further and added a Latitude feature that allows iPhone or Android users to get rewarded for loyalty to shops or restaurants via their ...

Advertising campaigns used to be every marketers logistic nightmare. From the initial executive pitch to allocating resources, time, banners and newspaper ads, logos, video and radio editing and more, within a significantly minuscule budget, had brand marketers at an often panicky edge.In an earlier time marketers were generally known as salesmen, the main driving force behind ensuring revenue. In today's technology-driven times, we coin the term "marketer" or "e-marketer" but the  salesperson title still holds. Revenue is still generated from sales and ...

The Android mobile platform is a runaway smash hit with users around the world. Research firm Gartner has released a report predicting that nearly half the world's smartphones will run Android by the end of 2012.But a backlash has been developing in recent months from developers over Google's perceived reluctance to release its latest Android code, encapsulated in an article in Business Week that described "a scenario where Google could have total control over what sort of tweaking can ...

Video games are no strangers to controversy and recently, there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over one of (the endlessly-in-development-but finally-going-to-be-released) Duke Nukem Forever’s multiplayer modes. Like many First Person Shooters, Duke Nukem Forever has a "capture the flag" mode, where the object is for one team to infiltrate the opposing team’s territory, abscond with a flag and then carry it to a designated area for points. So far, so normal. Duke Nukem Forever’s variation on this mode sees ...

In today's society, whether you are a conservative or are a liberal, the emotions that you experience from the news can range from simply infuriating to downright depressing. It’s in this very space that we need the help of satirists.Just as watching the news can bring us down, parodies and satirists can bring us up by allowing us to laugh at the absurdity in the real-life, very-serious issues, and in many cases, politicians that plague us. What follows is a ...

There's no such thing as a free lunch right? There's got to be a catch somewhere within a so-called free service? Think of Facebook, Google, and Twitter. These are all based on “freeconomics”. They are free tools. These services are subsidised by advertising and that model has, obviously, proved extremely successful. Why not apply the same model to mobile messaging? Launched last year, FSMS.co.za is doing just that.Memeburn had a chat with FSMS CEO Daniel Schwartzkopff to find out ...