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:…
WikiLeaks provides ‘Napster moment’ in evolution of web
If 1999 was the Year of Napster in the history of the internet then 2010 will go down as the Year of WikiLeaks. Napster,…
Apple accused of selling pirated Japanese iBooks
Publishers in Japan demanded on Tuesday that Apple stop selling pirated digital copies of novels by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami‘s “1Q84”, in its…
Facebook creating ‘second internet’ in challenge to Google
Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. While Google…
Our top 50 passwords: What the Gawker hack revealed
Global fast-food giant McDonald’s and world-famous entertainment blog, Gawker, have both admitted that hackers had helped themselves to data about people who take part…
Inventor of USB Flash Drive back to topple the SD card
Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the…
Social media shaking up the travel industry
Facebook, Twitter and a host of invite-only travel websites are fast becoming a key pipeline for well-heeled travellers as well as the budget-conscious to…
Virtual pillow-talk from an iPhone app
Lonesome South Koreans who have trouble finding true love can now get video calls from a virtual girlfriend, available as an iPhone app. South…
Gadget fetish of 2010: It’s all about the tablet
When it came to gadget fetishes of 2010, it was all about tablet computing. Yearning for a device that was bigger than a smartphone…
WikiLeaks hacks: ‘More cybermob, than cyberwar’
Despite the overtones, the attacks on credit card and other websites by supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange are more political protest than real…
OpenLeaks in bid to rival WikiLeaks
Former WikiLeaks supporters at odds with founder Julian Assange will shortly launch OpenLeaks, a rival project aiming to get secret documents directly to media,…
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