Move over dance challenges and viral trends—TikTok is strengthening its role in education! The popular social media platform has launched a dedicated Science, Technology,…
Facebook announces delay in plans to share user contact info
After being dogged by complaints about its privacy protection during 2010, Facebook has finally taken heed of the issues that users have with its…
The BBM that started the Mandela Twitter ‘death’ hoax [pic]
American blogger, Dan Zarrella — an award-winning writer and author of two O’Reilly Media books, has uncovered a screenshot of the original Blackberry Messenger…
Chinese authorities to step up fight against online piracy
Intellectual property rights are widely flouted in China, home to the biggest counterfeit and piracy market in the world. But days before President Hu…
Steve Jobs takes medical leave from Apple
For the second time in two years, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs announced on Monday that he is taking a new leave of absence…
107-trillion emails sent in 2010, 89 percent spam
Internet users sent a total of 107-trillion emails last year, most of them spam, according to a Web monitoring service. The number of emails…
Apple, News Corp. delay launch of iPad magazine
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and Apple have delayed next week’s launch of The Daily, the media tycoon’s digital newspaper for the iPad, a News…
Social media spawning the rise of ‘hate mobs’ across Asia
A teenager involved in a car crash that killed nine people in Thailand deserves “no happiness forever”, according to just one of more than…
Wikileaks founder speaks out against Chinese internet censorship
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is on the offensive again, blasting China as the “technological enemy” of his whistleblower website due to its aggressive internet…
YouTube serving 200-million mobile videos daily
If there was more proof needed that the internet is becoming more and more mobile, YouTube has announced that it is serving up more…
Google Science Fair seeks budding Einsteins and Curies
Fifteen years ago two young computer science students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, hypothesised that there was a better way to find information on…
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