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Opera ditches Presto, moves to WebKit

Norwegian software company Opera has ditched Presto, the rendering engine that currently powers Opera web browser, in favour of WebKit. WebKit powers the Apple…

AOL officially adds gadget review site gdgt to the family

After some speculation it seems the rumours are true: AOL has added gadget review site gdgt to its list of online properties for an…

Apple is not impressed by ‘silly sideshow’ of a lawsuit by investors

You’d think that as CEO, Tim Cook would be seriously concerned if Apple shareholders sued the company. But it seems that Cook is downplaying…

Amazon meets with Indian officials in bid to relax strict ecommerce laws

Representatives from Amazon have met with Indian officials in a bid to get them to relax strict laws which stop foreign ecommerce companies entering…

Google could land $5-billion from tablets in 2013

Tablets will generate Google around US$5-billion in revenue this year. No, it won’t be from sales of the Nexus 7, but from advertising. According…

Holocaust survivors to have their stories preserved through 3D holograms

This is a very cool and potentially very important application of 3D hologram technology. A selection of Holocaust survivors will have their stories preserved…

IMF admits cyber attack seeking ‘insider info’

The International Monetary Fund was the target of a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year, according to senior IMF officials quoted by the New…

Facebook tests Twitter-like real-time update feature

Facebook is dabbling with a Twitter-like feature that alerts members in real time to what their friends are up to on the social network….

How HuffPo beat NYTimes.com

Traffic to the spunky Huffington Post has surpassed visitors to the New York Times for the first time, according to tracking firm comScore. This…

Is Apple loosening its grip on its apps?

The word on the street is that Apple is about to relax its iPad subscription rules, a move likely to be welcomed by newspapers…

Nokia’s technology chief ‘quits over strategy’

Nokia has watched its global market share dwindle in recent years, and another nail hovered over the mobile giant’s coffin on Thursday. Finland’s leading…

Can Chinese microblogging sensation Weibo trump Twitter?

Chinese online media company Sina Corporation is set to launch an English version of its microblogging site Weibo (pronounced Wei-bohr), and it’s worth seeing…

Facebook under fire for photo tagging feature

Facebook is coming under fire for a feature that uses facial-recognition software to allow members to tag pictures of their friends on the social…

Alibaba to help Japan crack Chinese market

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba says it has launched a service to help Japanese manufacturers crack the fast-growing Chinese market. The Tokyo-based arm of Alibaba.com…

What the web thinks of eBay’s Magento buyout

When auction giant eBay announced this week that it was buying out the well-known ecommerce platform Magento, reaction was varied. In announcing the buyout…

Asian ad network reports surge in mobile advertising

The ever increasing allure of mobile advertising was reflected when BuzzCity, a global mobile advertising network, announced on Monday that it had served about…

Malaysian social activist ordered to tweet 100 apologies

In an interesting turn of events, Twitter is not in court or being served with court orders to hand over user data. One enterprising…

Confidence in Nokia rattled, but CEO bullish on Windows Phone 7

It’s not getting any better for Nokia. The Finnish handset giant saw its share price continue to plummet after the company’s announcement that its…

Omidyar-backed Africa entrepreneurship award launched

The 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship, open to entries from every country in Africa, is awarding up to $350,000 in prize money to successful…

Nicholas Carr on how the internet is damaging our brains

US technology writer Nicholas Carr is worried about what the internet is doing to our brains. “The seductions of technology are hard to resist,”…

US military contractors face cyber-attacks, Lockheed Martin confirms

Like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, the US military’s largest contractor, Lockheed Martin in a recent statement confirmed that it had faced cyber-attacks….

PlayStation services to be restored this week

On Tuesday Sony announced its plans to restore PlayStation Network services worldwide except in Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, after being targeted in…

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