With streaming platforms, next-gen gaming, and hybrid lifestyles reshaping how we consume entertainment, the humble TV is slowly being overtaken by a bigger player:…
Apple to launch ‘Mac App Store’ on January 6
Apple is planning a January 6 opening for an online shop stocked with software applications that add entertaining or functional features to the firm’s…
CNN launches iPad app
CNN has launched their new iPad app which the broadcaster says is designed to provide users with an “immersive and visual news experience” that…
Facebook, TenCent in battle for Chinese social gaming market
The great Firewall of China, a colloquial term for country’s censorship policies, may have kept most of the nation’s 420-million web users from accessing…
Google, MySpace cement advertising, search deal
The Newscorp-owned social network, MySpace, says Google will continue to power advertising and search at the flagging online service. Rupert Murdoch’s bought MySpace for…
Int’l cricketers banned from Twitter, Facebook for revealing too much
Pakistan has banned its cricketers from social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in the latest effort to exert discipline following a series of damaging…
Facebook brings facial recognition to photos
Facebook has announced that it will add facial recognition functionality to let users automatically identify friends in photos. A “tag suggestion” feature created to…
Xmas comes early for Twitter: More cash, users and a $3.7bn valuation
A fresh round of investment cash pushed Twitter’s market value up to US$3.7-billion dollars, with the number of people using the microblogging/lifestreaming/social networking (whatever…
US Air Force in clumsy attempt to block major news sites posting WikiLeaks
The US Air Force has blocked its workforce from visiting 25 media websites that published secret diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks. The move meant…
Social networks can help prevent disease outbreaks, pandemics
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter greatly help in detecting and containing the spread of pandemics, experts at a global health conference…
Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine’s Person of the Year
2010 has been an outrageously successful year in the life of Mark Zuckerberg. The 26-year old web entrepreneur, who founded Facebook while at university,…
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