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Google reportedly readying iOS Maps app for release

Google is reportedly getting ready to roll out an iOS version of its maps app to the public. According to the Wall Street Journal,…

Sina Weibo hits 400m users, thanks Olympics

Sina Weibo is in rude health. The Chinese social network revealed that it had gone past the 400-million user mark thanks, in part, to…

Twitter announces new tweaks, lets you email tweets from the web

If Twitter was a car, it would never go anywhere because it’s constantly being worked on. The social network today announced its most recent…

Facebook expands gifts, rolls out to millions more users

Facebook has announced that it will be rolling out Facebook Gifts to tens of millions of users, allowing them to give gifts to people…

iPhone 5, Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note added to Samsung, Apple lawsuit

If you were even remotely thinking that the Apple vs Samsung battle could be simmering down, especially after the HTC and Apple friendship hugs…

Anonymous fights to keep Gaza connected as Israel attacks

Hacker collective Anonymous has sworn to keep Gaza connected as Israel undertakes a series of attacks against Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. Over the past…

Steve Ballmer: Android is wild, ‘uncontrolled’, Windows 8 just right

There are no good guys in the war between Android and Apple. At least that’s the impression Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave in his…

Chinese newspaper launches new search engine

The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party, this week officially launched its own search engine as the country’s state media seek…

1.5-million Windows 7 Phones sold in first six weeks

Microsoft has released its first sales figures for new Windows Phone 7 smartphones, saying more than 1.5 million of the handsets were sold by…

Millions lose contact as Skype goes down

Skype suffered an outage lasting several hours on Wednesday affecting millions of users of the internet communications service. “Our engineers and site operations team…

Zuckerberg drops in to visit 1,3bn people

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — on holiday in China, where his global social networking site is blocked — met with the head of the…

Online advertising spend to shoot past newspapers in US

Online advertising spending in the United States will overtake spending on newspaper ads this year for the first time, digital research firm eMarketer said…

Yahoo! to dump web 2.0 goldrush sites

Some well-known Yahoo! web properties, some of which were purchased during the web 2.0 era goldrush, have appeared on an internal “sunset” list leaked…

Facebook goes down while testing new features

Facebook was deliberately shut down early on Friday morning for almost two and a half hours while staff fixed a glitch. In an official…

Google keeps the faith with MySpace search, ads

MySpace on Thursday announced that Google will continue to power advertising and search at the flagging online social network under pressure to improve its…

CNN launches iPad app

CNN has launched their new iPad app which the broadcaster says is designed to provide users with an “immersive and visual news experience” that…

Microsoft’s Bing opens new front against arch-rival Google via Facebook

It looks like Microsoft may be making that tiny 1.6% share it owns in Facebook work just a little bit harder. Microsoft has announced…

Google, MySpace cement advertising, search deal

The Newscorp-owned social network, MySpace, says Google will continue to power advertising and search at the flagging online service. Rupert Murdoch’s bought MySpace for…

Int’l cricketers banned from Twitter, Facebook for revealing too much

Pakistan has banned its cricketers from social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in the latest effort to exert discipline following a series of damaging…

Facebook brings facial recognition to photos

Facebook has announced that it will add facial recognition functionality to let users automatically identify friends in photos. A “tag suggestion” feature created to…

Xmas comes early for Twitter: More cash, users and a $3.7bn valuation

A fresh round of investment cash pushed Twitter’s market value up to US$3.7-billion dollars, with the number of people using the microblogging/lifestreaming/social networking (whatever…

US Air Force in clumsy attempt to block major news sites posting WikiLeaks

The US Air Force has blocked its workforce from visiting 25 media websites that published secret diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks. The move meant…

Social networks can help prevent disease outbreaks, pandemics

Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter greatly help in detecting and containing the spread of pandemics, experts at a global health conference…

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

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

L2 charging and the power of dwell time

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