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Microsoft set to unleash celebrity assault in Windows Phone 8 promotion

Looks like a fair chunk of Microsoft’s massive marketing drive for Windows Phone 8 is going toward celebrity endorsements. After the Redmond-based company’s CEO…

Editor Chris Anderson leaves Wired for drones

Wired magazine’s long time editor, Chris Anderson has resigned to run his 3D robotics company fulltime. The renowned editor has been with the publication…

Google brings data free mobile search Gmail, Google+ to the Philippines

While the smartphone revolution is well established in most mature mobile markets, there’s still a long way to go in some countries, particularly in…

MasterCard launches next gen touch screen bank card in Singapore

As part of a partnership with Singapore’s Standard Chartered Bank, MasterCard has launched its next generation interactive card, which features an embedded display and…

Time for more videos: Wikipedia launches new HTML5 video player

It’s been in the works for a while, but now crowd-sourced giant Wikipedia is entering the multimedia era with its new HTML5 video player……

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…

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….

Tablet computers take a bite out of PC sales

Worldwide personal computer sales are on track to set a new record this year but tablets like Apple’s iPad are taking a bite out…

Tencent gearing up for Facebook challenge?

It looks like Chinese internet giant Tencent is gearing up to take on Facebook. A report indicates plans by the company to offer users…

American woman mistaken for a cricket match

An American woman with the Twitter name @theashes who was bombarded by messages about cricket was offered a free flight to Australia and started…

A glimpse of the future: Pay TV declines in the face of broadband

The economic downturn has US cable television companies shedding subscribers in record numbers and Americans increasingly “cutting the cord” in favour of cheaper online…

Wi-fi connection catapults Nepal into 21st century

It used to take teacher Mahabir Pun more than two days to check his email from his home in the remote Himalayan village of…

WikiLeaks reveals how China hacked into Google

WikiLeaks has unleashed a fresh torrent of more than a quarter million confidential US cables detailing a wide array of potentially explosive and embarrassing…

World braces for new ‘extremely dangerous’ WikiLeaks revelations

Governments around the world braced for the release of millions of potentially embarrassing US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks as Washington raced to contain the…

US authorities in new crackdown on pirate music sites

US authorities have shut down dozens of websites offering counterfeit goods and pirated music, five months after a crackdown on sites offering movie downloads….

Pirate Bay founders jail sentence reduced, fines increased

A Swedish appeals court Friday shortened the prison terms of two founders and a financier of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, but increased…

Philippines gov’t begins broadcasting live online

The Philippine senate has begun streaming sessions live on the internet, in keeping with President Benigno Aquino’s pledge of government transparency, officials said. The…

‘Project’: Richard Branson’s new iPad magazine

British tycoon Richard Branson on Tuesday will unveil a digital magazine tailored for viewing on Apple’s popular iPad tablet computers, according to press conference…

Auschwitz launches online Holocaust study programme

Museum authorities at the site of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday said they were launching an online study programme to…

Beatles sell two million songs on iTunes in first week

The Beatles sold more than 450,000 albums and over two million individual songs in the week since their music appeared on Apple’s iTunes, Billboard…

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