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Facebook unveils new look for friendship pages

Facebook has refreshed its friendship pages. If you’re unsure what the hell that is, click on one of your friends’ profiles and click on…

News anchor gets suspended for Linkin Park death tweet

Lance Witten, an anchor for the eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) has been suspended by the channel for a tweet in which he joked about…

JAM with Chrome: rock out with your friends, on your browser

We all that Google does fairly nifty things sometimes and they’re fun, for sure. But every now and then it pulls something mind-bogglingly awesome…

Samsung Galaxy SIII is officially the world’s best selling smartphone

Looks like it’s time to surrender your throne iPhone 4S users: the Samsung Galaxy SIII is officially the world’s best-selling smartphone, for now. According…

Baidu CEO tells staff to disrupt, innovate… and be like wolves

Be more wolf-like. That’s one of the rallying cries of Robin Li, CEO and founder of China’s top search engine, Baidu, in an internal email…

Google continues to slip in China search, map rankings

It may be a synonym for online search in the rest of the world but in China, Google’s a minor player. Its presence in…

Vodacom scuppers social play The Grid

Vodacom has announced kill off its social networking play The Grid by 1 December. The location-based social network, which in 2010 had around two…

Microsoft’s new browser to prevent third-party tracking

Microsoft unveiled increased privacy options on Tuesday for the upcoming version of its popular Web browser Internet Explorer 9 including the ability to prevent…

eBay founder puts up R6m to fund SA mobile innovation project

Philanthropic investment firm The Omidyar Network, owned by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, on Tuesday announced a US$825 000 injection into a South African mobile-focused…

Tumblr back on its feet after 24-hr crash

Popular blogging platform Tumblr on Monday was getting back on its feet after a database tumble that left it out of service for nearly…

Google takes on Amazon with e-book store launch

Google has opened its long-awaited electronic bookstore in what is being billed as a heavyweight entry into a booming market long dominated by Amazon.com…

Zuckerberg on Yahoo’s $1bn offer, privacy and The Social Network

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in an interview last night with CBS show “60 Minutes” said the movie “The Social Network” got “hugely basic” things…

Internet ‘all used up’

The reserve of available Internet addresses will be used up around the world in January, warned experts. Internet addresses are distributed by the Internet…

WikiLeaks makes its archives available for download

WikiLeaks, the website infuriating Washington for releasing hundreds of restricted US diplomatic cables, was making all its archives so far available for download as…

Facebook rolls out new, improved profile pages

The official Facebook Twitter account has tweeted news about improvements to user profiles pages on the social network, making it “easier for you to…

Paypal cuts off WikiLeaks donations account

WikiLeaks faced a fresh threat to its survival on Saturday as the online payment service PayPal cut off the account used for donations to…

Google intensifying efforts to combat online piracy

Google unveiled new tactics to thwart “bad apples” that post or share pirated material on the internet. “As the web has grown, we have…

WikiLeaks loses American domain name, moves to Switzerland

The noose is tightening on WikiLeaks, as it faces challenges on multiple fronts to stay operational. In the latest blow to the notorious whistleblower…

Facebook used to recruit ‘drug mules’

International drug syndicates are using social networking site Facebook to recruit young Malaysian women as “drug mules”, the deputy foreign minister said Thursday. The…

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…

ASUS and AMD Launch AI-Driven Expert P Series PCs for South African SMBs

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