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Apple App Store hits 1-million approved apps

When it comes to app stores, it seems to be all about the numbers. A number of otherwise complimentary reviews have been tainted by…

Israel strikes on Palestine spark mass hack attacks

Isreal’s strikes on Palestine have provoked mass hacks on the country’s government websites. According to Reuters, some 44-million hacking attempts have been made on…

Facebook and Yahoo! are discussing a search deal… or not?

Yahoo! chief Marissa Meyer has reportedly been in talks with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg over how the two companies can work more closely. According…

Nintendo Wii U lets its users wait a little bit too long for out-the-box update

It would seem that the launch of Nintendo’s latest gaming console, the Wii U, had a few hiccups. After exemplary sales, with some stores…

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…

Best tech company of 2010 goes to…

Apple dethroned Microsoft as the world’s most valuable technology company in 2010 as its co-founder Steve Jobs soared to new heights with the touchscreen…

Gadget rockstar of 2010: The tablet computer

Yearning for an Internet-linked gadget bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop merged with always-connected lifestyles to make tablet computing a defining…

Apple pulls WikiLeaks app from app store

Apple has removed an unofficial WikiLeaks application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad from its App Store because it violated its guidelines for…

Pakistani firm creates top selling Blackberry app

Photo editing software developed by Pakistani technology firm Five Rivers became the best selling paid-for application for the Blackberry, the firm said Wednesday. Lahore-based…

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…

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

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IBM Think 2025: Enterprise Gen AI Moves Beyond the Hype

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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