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Mxit Launch: social integration finally hits the platform

It’s about time. It seems Mxit has finally wised up to the rest of the world and has announced a social monitoring tool dubbed…

SA hackers claim world first with tweeting hamster

This is kind of cute. It’s a hamster. That tweets. Sort of. Unfortunately, no one’s managed to teach a hamster to type out tweets…

The Pope gets tweeting, but don’t expect any fancy food pics

So the Pope sends out a tweet…no it’s not the start of a joke. It’s what’s going to happen come 12 December. The Vatican…

WCIT-12: the future of the internet could be decided by a conference

Last week we reported on the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12), hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and some of the proposed…

By giving a voice to Hamas, Twitter is enabling the enemy says congressman

It seems Twitter’s ability to give the voiceless a voice is a becoming a real problem and could land in it some trouble if…

China’s Taobao and Tmall hit $158bn in sales for 2012 so far

China’s largest ecommerce company Alibaba has just announced that two of its sites, Taobao and Tmall, have collectively hit RMB 1-trillion (US$159.5-billion) in sales…

John McAfee captured…or not?

Anti-virus pioneer and murder suspect John McAfee has been captured…or he’s still on the run. It depends which news source you believe really. McAfee…

Mobile operators need new revenue models to cope with data usage

Mobile operators are facing a crisis which requires innovative thinking. Rocketing smartphone use could drive mobile operators into losses in three years unless they…

LG to unveil world’s first full 3D smartphone

LG will unveil the world’s first full 3D smartphone, the LG Optimus 3D handset, at the 2011 Mobile World Congress – offering consumers a…

Google vs Bing: The great search scandal

Amit Singhal, a Google fellow and engineer, has written an extraordinary blog post on the company’s official blog spelling out how it caught out…

$1-billion cost for Intel as flaw in newest computer chips emerges

At a point in which the demand for PCs is under threat like never before, a defect found on one of global manufacturer Intel’s…

Internet giants speak out against Egyptian blockade of web

As Egypt is rocked by continuing protests against President Hosni Mubarak, Google, Facebook and Twitter, breaking with the usual practice of corporate silence, are…

Google launches ‘check-ins’ via Android smartphones

Google on Tuesday began letting smartphone users check into spots on the go as the internet star jumped into the hot location-based services arena…

Google, Twitter set up voice-to-tweet service for Egypt

As the Egyptian government feverishly tries to cut off all contact with the outside world, Google, working in collaboration with Twitter, has set up…

Android finally makes it to number 1, surpassing Nokia’s Symbian

Google’s smartphone operating system Android has passed Nokia’s Symbian and become the global smartphone market leader, market research company Canalys said Monday. In the…

Jobs, education and New Year top Google searches in January

South African internet users in January were more interested in finding out about last year’s Matric results than SA’s latest overseas cricket tournament, reveals…

Did US companies help Egyptian gov’t to crack down on internet?

Free Press, the non-partisan lobbying organisation, reports that US companies are involved in providing technology that helps the Egyptian government monitor protesters on the…

WikiLeaks threatens massive leak if shut down

In an exclusive interview with CBS News’s “60 Minutes”, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Sunday detailed a plan to release a deluge of secret…

China censoring all news of Egyptian uprising

In a sign of official unease about the unrest in Egypt and the fact that it could spark calls for reform at home, Chinese…

World Tweets messages of love and support for Madiba

The news of the hospitalisation of living-legend Nelson Mandela has sent shock-waves through the world with users on major social networks posting their well-wishes…

Murdoch’s Digital Daily finally launches

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is planning to launch The Daily, the media tycoon’s exclusive digital newspaper for the iPad, in New York on Wednesday….

Despite record revenue for Microsoft net profits slip

On Thursday Microsoft reported its net profit slipped in the last quarter despite record-high revenue boosted by insatiable demand for Kinect controllers for Xbox…

RIM denies India access to blackberry emails

Research In Motion (RIM) said Thursday it could not give India access its corporate mail service, days ahead of a government deadline for access….

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