OpenAI has launched GPT 5.2, a major model upgrade now available in both the API and ChatGPT. It is described as the company’s most…
Social messaging apps to go past the 2 billion user mark in 2014
Look, we already know social messaging apss are big. WhatsApp now has 350-million active monthly users and WeChat, its biggest rival, went past the…
Syrian government blocks access to WhatsApp
The latest mobile tool to suffer at the hands of a dictatorial regime isn’t a social network, or even an inflammatory mobile site. It’s…
WhatsApp rocks and will kill SMS
It’s an open secret that SMS is a cash-cow for operators. They can charge obscene amounts for messages (compared to the cost of delivering…
The BBM debate: Can speech ever be consequence free?
The latest call to intercept messages on the Blackberry Messenger (BBM) platform, by South African Deputy-Communications minister, Obed Bapela, threw the veritable cat amongst…