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Obama and Romney’s apps are tracking you way more than you think

The iOS apps for both President Barack Obama and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s campaigns are tracking users and communicating with external sources, such as…

Google-backed project rolls out Wi-Fi hotspots in major Kenyan cities

Internet users in Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya can now connect to cheap Wi-Fi on the go following a continuing roll out by search…

Samsung breaks another record, has now sold 30m Galaxy S IIIs in 157 days

Well, things seem to be going well at Samsung. The South Korean giant is the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, it announced last…

Anonymous starts its attacks: don’t worry, Facebook is still there… for now

Today is the day that hacker group Anonymous will start to hack, deface and cause general mayhem on certain sites around the world. The…

Anonymous leaks 28 000 passwords, claims they’re from PayPal

Given the predilection for Guy Fawkes imagery, it should hardly be surprising that Anonymous would choose 5 November as its global protest day. In…

Samsung has sold 3-million Galaxy Note II devices in 37 days. Seriously

So, all those critics who said that a phablet would never work must be shaking their heads in disbelief. Samsung’s original massive Galaxy Note…

New Gowalla app syncs with Foursquare and Facebook

Gowalla on Thursday rolled out a redesign that included letting members of the location-based social network share check-ins at Foursquare, Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook…

Zynga in key mobile play

Zynga, king of online social networking games, is following its fans onto smartphones and other mobile devices with the acquisition on Thursday of rising…

Spoof Julius Malema ‘in talks’ with ANCYL to hand over Twitter account

Controversial ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leader Julius Malema may be negotiating to take over one of the larger fake Twitter accounts registered in his…

NASA announces arsenic-eating bacterium, ending ‘alien life’ speculation

So what were you expecting? A real-life alien to waltz out onto stage? Pictures of life lived happily on another planet? Intense speculation and…

South Korean gov’t to crack down on internet addiction

South Korea’s government is close to adopting a “Cinderella” law to ban youngsters from playing online games past midnight amid growing concerns about internet…

China’s Baidu seeks to expand across web as Google China declines

2010 has been an exceptional year for Chinese search engine “Baidu”. The name means “hundreds of times”, and comes from an ancient Chinese verse,…

‘Do Not Track’ button proposed for online browsing

In an effort to balance privacy concerns with internet innovation, US regulators in charge of protecting the privacy of consumers are proposing safeguards including…

Free Wi-Fi: A Xmas gift from Skyrove

Holidaymakers will be able to take advantage of free Wi-Fi access at over 650 Skyrove hotspots across South Africa this December as part of…

Amazon terminates hosting service for WikiLeaks

Amazon, after coming under fire for hosting WikiLeaks, booted it from its servers on Wednesday, prompting the whistleblower website to shift to Web-hosting services…

Samsung’s Galaxy tablet ready to take on iPad

It’s interesting to note that last Christmas, anybody asked if they wanted a “tablet” would probably have thought they were being offered a pill…

Jumo.com: Facebook co-founder launches charitable social network

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who left the social network to work on the online arm of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, launched a new venture…

Indian, Chinese tech firms partner to take on Western brands

Indian technology companies are growing in confidence, and with the help of cheap Chinese manufacturing, these new brands are launching thick and fast, determined…

WikiLeaks faces second cyber-attack in three days

WikiLeaks used its Twitter account on Tuesday to reveal that it was under a new cyber attack, just three days after a similar incident…

Chinese Twitter clone Fanfou makes a comeback

Fanfou, a Chinese Twitter clone that was shut down by authorities last year amid fears it was fanning unrest in the country, has apparently…

WikiLeaks’ next bombshell could ‘take down a bank or two’

In an interview with Forbes magazine WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed a fresh “megaleak” will target a major US bank “early next year”….

‘Hacktivist’ takes credit for WikiLeaks shutdown

A computer hacker known as the “Jester” who calls himself a “hacktivist for good” is taking credit for temporarily taking down the WikiLeaks website….

Elon Musk’s Controversial Salute

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