South Africa has crossed one of its biggest economic milestones of the decade, officially surpassing pre pandemic international arrival numbers and positioning itself for…
American woman mistaken for a cricket match
An American woman with the Twitter name @theashes who was bombarded by messages about cricket was offered a free flight to Australia and started…
A glimpse of the future: Pay TV declines in the face of broadband
The economic downturn has US cable television companies shedding subscribers in record numbers and Americans increasingly “cutting the cord” in favour of cheaper online…
Wi-fi connection catapults Nepal into 21st century
It used to take teacher Mahabir Pun more than two days to check his email from his home in the remote Himalayan village of…
World braces for new ‘extremely dangerous’ WikiLeaks revelations
Governments around the world braced for the release of millions of potentially embarrassing US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks as Washington raced to contain the…
US authorities in new crackdown on pirate music sites
US authorities have shut down dozens of websites offering counterfeit goods and pirated music, five months after a crackdown on sites offering movie downloads….
Pirate Bay founders jail sentence reduced, fines increased
A Swedish appeals court Friday shortened the prison terms of two founders and a financier of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, but increased…
Philippines gov’t begins broadcasting live online
The Philippine senate has begun streaming sessions live on the internet, in keeping with President Benigno Aquino’s pledge of government transparency, officials said. The…
‘Project’: Richard Branson’s new iPad magazine
British tycoon Richard Branson on Tuesday will unveil a digital magazine tailored for viewing on Apple’s popular iPad tablet computers, according to press conference…
Auschwitz launches online Holocaust study programme
Museum authorities at the site of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday said they were launching an online study programme to…
Beatles sell two million songs on iTunes in first week
The Beatles sold more than 450,000 albums and over two million individual songs in the week since their music appeared on Apple’s iTunes, Billboard…
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