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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…

eBay has another go in China, this time with luxury clothes

US online auction giant eBay has made a return, in a very low-key but stylish way, to the China market. It recently launched a…

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…

Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine’s Person of the Year

2010 has been an outrageously successful year in the life of Mark Zuckerberg. The 26-year old web entrepreneur, who founded Facebook while at university,…

WikiLeaks provides ‘Napster moment’ in evolution of web

If 1999 was the Year of Napster in the history of the internet then 2010 will go down as the Year of WikiLeaks. Napster,…

Apple accused of selling pirated Japanese iBooks

Publishers in Japan demanded on Tuesday that Apple stop selling pirated digital copies of novels by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami‘s “1Q84”, in its…

Facebook creating ‘second internet’ in challenge to Google

Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. While Google…

Our top 50 passwords: What the Gawker hack revealed

Global fast-food giant McDonald’s and world-famous entertainment blog, Gawker, have both admitted that hackers had helped themselves to data about people who take part…

Inventor of USB Flash Drive back to topple the SD card

Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the…

Die Antwoord steals the show on YouTube for 2010

For the year of 2010 South Africans watched clips dominated by music and politics on YouTube, with Afrikaans trailer-trash rap group Die Antwoord stealing…

Why AI in Education Still Needs Human Teachers

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Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

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JLR channels its Camel Trophy history