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With the spread of internet access, and of social media use,journalists have had to deal with two identity crises related to their role as the "fourth estate".The first identity crisis relates to their own positions of power as the other estates of power (which number far more than three) no ...

News24 and Samsung South Africa have combined to produce the first local Smart TV application. The News24 app can be accessed from any Samsung Smart TV and offers the hooked-in user news reports, the latest sports results, financial indicators, celebrity gossip and much more.The move mirrors the recent UK launch ...

Facebook has spent US$40 000 over the past three weeks rewarding the discovery of glitches in its security system.Earlier this month Facebook launched a programme called the Bug Bounty Program, which encourages security experts to help strengthen the social network against attacks.In a recent blog post Facebook's chief security officer, ...

Two British men in their early twenties have each been sentenced to four years imprisonment for inciting violence on Facebook. The sentences are among the first following a series of arrests in the wake of riots which recently spread across the UK.Jordan Blackshaw, 20, from Cheshire and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, ...

Jittery global markets and the worst round of US trading since 2008 could not stop the surge of professional network LinkedIn.According to the New York Times, in its first earnings report since shares in the company were opened to everyday investors, LinkedIn's revenue has more than doubled in the ...

The BBC is reporting that a story which claimed that Internet Explorer users have a lower average IQ than users of other browsers is a hoax.A number of news organisations ran the story on the basis of a report posted what was on what was believed to be the ...

If you thought that a lawsuit seeking to individually sue more than 30 000 people for sending out 140-character-long messages in one fell swoop was ridiculous and would be thrown out, think again. Seeing as the trial seems to be progressing, Twitter has now in its own way -- through ...

Vodafone recently concluded a policy paper on “Broadband in Emerging Markets”, also titled “Making Broadband Accessible for All“.The position and reason for this paper is best summarised below.The success story of mobiles in the developing world is well known. Yet in the case of extending data services in emerging markets, ...

Despite desperately fighting off a Swedish extradiction order from the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has still managed to find time to sit down with the world's media. He however has chosen to ignore the traditional and expected choices of news-networks such as the BBC or CNN for lesser ...

“Alright, so it’s over, [the] interview’s over. Please, you can’t use that Rory, it’s just not fair... We’ve dealt with this, this is a national security issue, turn that off...”This was RIM’s co-CEO Mike Lazaridis’s response to a question posed by BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, when he was pressed ...