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Ratcheting up its increasingly stern line with Beijing on trade issues, Washington has added concerns about China's infamous Great Firewall saying that it may be hurting US companies' access to Chinese consumers.This concern, amongst others, was put forth in a letter by US Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ...

Just got a press release today about 24.com's new answerit service. It's based on a similar Yahoo! service, which apparently has done pretty well. 24.com are one of the few players in the country who can launch a service like this, because it requires volume. Last time I checked, they ...

According to a report on Reuters last year, world wide mobile phone subscriptions reached 3.3-billion users or half the world’s population. Compare this to television usage (about 1,5-billion users) or desktop internet usage (about 1,1-billion users), and it is not hard to see why there is so much excitement about ...

It's been a cool year for the Web in South Africa.Year of the blog? We saw the arrival of two blog aggregators Afrigator and amatomu.com, and there was talk of a third. The former was recognised by CNN as a major web startup outside the US and also received mentions on ...

Of all the news reports I've read on the African National Congress (ANC) Polokwane conference so far, the live coverage from our blogger Ndumiso Ngcobo, who is at the event, has honestly been the most interesting. The ANC conference is a major event for South Africa, set to determine the ...

I always look forward to the presentations by our Japanese media colleagues about their mobile phone strategies. They are the undisputed world leaders in this field. When many places on the planet weren't even using cellphones for SMSing/texting, these guys had mastered delivering content on mobile phones and were making ...

South Africa has a new Google boss.Stafford Masie, the former head of Novell South Africa and a relative unknown outside IT circles, has been appointed the new South Africa Google head, reports ITWeb and Mail & Guardian Online.It's taken them a while to find the person. The job has been ...

It looks like Facebook doesn't own facebook.co.za, its South African domain? I'm surmising this from the fact that:1. it appears from the co.za registration data that the owner of Facebook.co.za lives in Cape Town. 2. it may be that the domain was registered on behalf of Facebook by the local, but ...

Via an AP story on Wired.comGoogle, which hasn't in the past got too involved in government affairs and advocacy issues, is now joining the fight against the rise of web censorship worldwide. This is an interesting departure, because surely this will inevitably put Google on a collision course with the ...

Received a press release from Nielsen//Netratings, who run the statistics and compiles readership of the major websites in the local Online Publisher's Association. Whichever way you look at it, this is good news for the South African online industry as a whole, and is no doubt spurred on by the ...