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John McAfee found, arrested by Guatemala police

Anti-virus software pioneer and murder suspect John McAfee has been brought to book in Guatemala after weeks on the run from police in Belize….

A messy divorce: no more Twitter cards for Instagram photos

The split between Twitter and Instagram just got uglier. The photo-sharing service has disabled the ability for the social network to properly share photos…

Facebook unveils top 25 games of 2012, Zynga’s slide continues

Facebook has announced its 25 top rated games for 2012 and Zynga which you would once have expected to dominate such a list doesn’t…

Wii U gets a Google Maps injection, bonus dose of Panorama View

Google Maps has now been incorporated in a downloadable app for the Wii U that will be available from January 2013. Combining the Wii…

BlackBerry set to launch BBM Money app in Indonesia

Indonesia is a seriously important market for BlackBerry. Although it no longer holds the top OS spot the Canadian manufacturer still owns the handset…

Child friendly content now available on Kindle

Back in September Kindle released FreeTime, a service that keeps your kids in a safe zone for content like movies and games. Now the…

Facebook Messenger now allows signups with just a name and number

Well now. Rumours that Facebook was poised to buy social messaging service WhatsApp may have been false, but the social network looks set to…

New dating website ‘steals’ photos from Facebook

In an ironic case of art imitating life, a freshly-launched dating website that lets visitors seek mates by sifting through profile pictures mined from…

That’s it folks. The internet is over

The global warehouse for Internet addresses has run empty. The non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) doled out its last five…

Iconic shoe designer Kenneth Cole puts his foot in it on Twitter

The ability to fire off a tweet in a matter of seconds without really thinking about the consequences is as much a blessing as…

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…

Search.com launches AI chat that pays users and publishers

OpenAI Quietly Launches ChatGPT-5 — And It’s a Game Changer

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Aura Edition Review: A Sleek, AI-Powered Ultrabook for the Work-Anywhere Era

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South African Women Entrepreneurs Get It Right

Fintura Heads to Silicon Valley After Winning SA Startup World Cup

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

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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