The Language of 2025 South Africa’s social feeds in 2025 are buzzing with new words and digital inside jokes. Slang like delulu, rizz, and…
Google prints more money
Google reported that its quarterly profit soared on the back of its thriving Internet advertising service and that its display and mobile ad businesses…
Sony delays global release of Gran Turismo 5 again
Japan’s Sony will again delay the global release of the latest version of its popular “Gran Turismo” car-racing game, which was due out early…
TED talks now on the iPad
The world-wide acclaimed TED talks took to the iPad with the release on Thursday of an application that allows users to watch the famous…
Facebook, Skype join forces
Skype and Facebook joined forces on Thursday to let users of the popular Internet messenging and voice-over-IP service chat with their friends on the…
Danish court blocks media from quoting Facebook ‘friends’
Journalists may not use information from the Facebook accounts of their “friends,” a Danish media tribunal ruled Wednesday in a case pitting the prime…
Ning launches social network tools for any website
Bands, politicians, charities and many more organisations are turning to Ning to imbue websites with the kinds of social networking features credited with making…
Chinese e-commerce giant launches new search engine
A unit of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said on Tuesday it had launched a search engine, in an apparent effort to capitalise on…
Australian PM backs controversial web filter
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard Tuesday renewed her backing for a controversial internet filter, saying it was driven by a “moral question”. The proposed…
Trending on Twitter: Brazil elections, Nobel prize and #cantwait
What The Trend, a Twitter aggregator that positions itself as “the front page of the real time web”, has released some rather surprising findings…
Worldwide survey finds emerging markets leading the digital age
China and the Middle East are racing ahead of the West in embracing the internet, according to “the largest ever” global study of online…
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