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Despite months of Julian Assange trying to keep it off bookstore shelves, the Wikileaks founder’s autobiography will hit stores on Thursday. Assange — known…
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Though it’s said time and again that the number followers one has on Twitter really means nothing, be it ours or another’s, it’s a…
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Hours after the official repeal of the US military’s ban on “public” homosexuality, an American soldier has released an emotional video of him coming…
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Adding further credence to notions that Google is the new Microsoft, Google CEO Eric Schmidt will face a US Senate hearing which looks to…
Research In Motion: If government asks we’ll shut down BlackBerry Messenger
BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion (RIM) announced that should the UK government ask, it would, in times of civil strife, shut down its “encrypted”…
AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo! partner to fight Google
In the wake of the firing of its colourful CEO, Carol Bartz, Yahoo! has dominated headlines with stories of boardroom politics and rumours of…
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After having called the rest of the board “doofuses”, colourful ex-Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz has tendered her resignation from the Yahoo! board. This is…
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Malema ‘shoot the boer’ ruling divides South African tweeters
The judgement delivered Monday in Julius Malema‘s hate-speech trial has sharply divided South African tweeters. The Equality court has found that the controversial ANC…
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