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Vine is top iOS app, but only in the US

Twitter’s Instagram-style video-sharing service Vine is becoming seriously popular, especially in the US. The service is currently the most downloaded free app on the…

WhatsApp says acquisition rumors are false

WhatsApp is not interested in selling to Google, or anyone else for that matter. Following rumors that Google was in talks to buy the…

The Kissinger Cables: Wikileaks makes largest release yet

Wikileaks has made over 1.7-million diplomatic cables available to the public, the largest ever release of formerly confidential information to come from the whistle-blowing…

Abuse, rape claims roll in against TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington appears to be in increasingly hot water. After Gawker unearthed allegations that the blogger and businessman beat his girlfriend and…

Google in possible talks to buy WhatsApp

Google may be in talks with WhatsApp to purchase the mobile chat platform for up to US$1-billion. That’s according to rumours reported by Digital…

40m of WeChat’s 300m users live outside China

Yesterday at Boao Forum For Asia 2013, Tencent’s President Martin Lau revealed on stage that WeChat has over 40-million overseas users. That’s out of…

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos invests in Business Insider

This is interesting. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested in US-based business and technology news website Business Insider. Business Insider editor-in-chief Henry Blodgett today…

DA leader addresses Twitter critics

Helen Zille, leader of South Africa’s largest opposition party, has responded to a recent spat between herself, officials from her party, and South African…

Facebook Messenger app launches

Facebook has launched a messaging application for use on both Android and iPhones. An engineer within Facebook, Lucy Zhang said that the messaging app…

Bad year for China: 500 000 cyber attacks in 2010

China, in a recently released statement, said that it had been the target of close to 500 000 cyber attacks during 2010. Many of…

‘The last reason for me to use the internet is over’: The Onion paywall

World famous news parody site The Onion is now insisting users must pay to access its content. A new paywall has been erected which…

Anonymous takes down Syrian Ministry of Defence site

Hacker group Anonymous, has taken down yet another governmental site in its declared war against global injustice. The group has removed the Syrian Ministry…

Famed Chinese artist and dissident sends first tweets since arrest

Following what many had taken to be a regime-imposed silence, famed Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has returned to Twitter. Ai tweeted for…

Defcon ‘Kids Village’ guides hackers of the future

Defcon, one of the world’s premier annual hacking conferences, has introduced a “Kids Village” aimed at improving the hacking skills of children as young…

AntiSec takes on US police agencies

Hacker group AntiSec is claiming to have “defaced and destroyed” the websites of various US police agencies in retaliation to the arrest of suspected…

LinkedIn revenue doubles amidst uncertain global trading

Jittery global markets and the worst round of US trading since 2008 could not stop the surge of professional network LinkedIn. According to the…

Hack turns smartphone app into criminal tool

Hackers have shown how to turn mobile payment service Square into a convenient tool that allows criminals to pump cash from stolen credit card…

Indonesian court blames Facebook for increase in teenage pregnancies

A religious court official in Indonesia has blamed social networking site Facebook for a rise in teenage pregnancies and under-age marriages, a report said….

Google Realtime Search (kind of) makes a comeback with Google+

Google’s Realtime Search function is set to make a comeback, but with no tweets or Facebook status updates. It will, instead, be limited to…

Google lawyer slams Apple, Microsoft, and other competitors

Google’s top lawyer accused Apple, Oracle, Microsoft and other companies of using “bogus patents” to wage a campaign against the internet giant’s Android mobile…

US police crack open ‘nightmare’ online child pornography network

US officials have unveiled charges against 72 people in their largest global probe into internet child pornography which smashed a “nightmare” online bulletin board…

South Korean police bust online scam which used ‘elite’ North Korean hackers

South Korean police claim to have busted a criminal gang which used elite North Korean computer hackers to break into online game sites and…

Google Voice: Now available in 38 new languages

Google Voice, the Skype-like component within Gmail, has opened itself up to 38 more languages as well as many more countries outside the US….

TCL South Africa Unveils 2025 Mini LED TV Range with Wide Viewing Angles

RIP Skype Microsoft Pulls the Plug on a Digital Pioneer

SITA pushes back as Home Affairs eyes IT exit

EmpowaEntrepreneurs 2025 Targets Africa’s High-Growth Founders and Investors

French No-Code Pioneer Tinkso Secures Strategic Investment from SA Entrepreneur Henk Pretorius

IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Gravity is a true driver’s EV SUV