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Obama announces 2012 campaign via Twitter
On Monday US President Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign via social media. The new campaign sees Obama turning once again to the online…
Indian village uses Skype for schooling
In the poor village of Chamanpura in the struggling state of Bihar, having internet access for school usage is never really an option and…
Larry Page finally back at Google helm
Google co-founder Larry Page on Monday takes back the reins of the internet powerhouse that he and Sergey Brin created as Stanford University students…
Twitter: A platform for parodies
Parody is becoming Twitter‘s modus operandi with a cast of characters that includes an elusive cobra, a tipsy Queen of England, a profanity-spewing US…
Microsoft joins anti-trust complaint against Google
On Thursday computer giant Microsoft joined an anti-trust complaint against search giant Google in Europe which could result in billions of dollars in fines….
Twin baby brothers a viral hit on YouTube
A video of a pair of diaper-clad babies seemingly engaged in an animated conversation in a home kitchen was a fast-spreading YouTube sensation. The…
Evan Williams scaling back his role at Twitter
On the heels of Jack Dorsey’s return to Twitter, co-founder Evan Williams is scaling back his role in the microblogging site and turning his…
Study shows India not bridging the digital divide
Despite India’s booming information technology industry and over 5 million broadband subscribers with a 7% internet usage penetration with over 81 million online users,…
Three million works deleted in Baidu’s move to curb copyright suit
Chinese search engine giant Baidu said Wednesday it had deleted nearly three million works from its online library in a three-day blitz aimed at…
Mozilla Firefox 4 now available in Zulu
Translate.org.za and its community of volunteer translators have customised Mozilla’s hugely popular Firefox web browser to support Zulu. This is the culmination of work…
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