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Apple unveils ‘game changer’ smartwatch, new phones
Along with larger phones, Apple has launched a multi-purpose watch – which marks the company’s first innovation since Steve Jobs’s death.
Android extends worldwide smartphones dominance
A report from research firm IDC says there were four Android phones for every iPhone shipped in the second quarter of 2012.
Not so Scrabulous
The creators of a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook have been sued by Hasbro.
YouTube to protect users when handing over records
The video-sharing site YouTube will be allowed to mask the identities of individual users when it provides viewership records to Viacom.
MySpace victorious in $234m spam judgement
The popular online hangout MySpace has won a -million judgement over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award to date. A federal…
Nothing to LOL about
It’s nothing to LOL about: despite best efforts to keep school writing assignments formal, two-thirds of teens in the United States admit in a survey that emoticons and other…
Yahoo! targets women with new website
Yahoo! on Monday launched a site for women between the ages of 25 and 54, calling it a key demographic underserved by current Yahoo! properties. The site, Shine, is aimed largely…
Ad delivery on cellphones set to soar
Your cellphone is a potential gold mine for marketers: it can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like. Considering the phone is usually no more than a…
Have you googled yourself lately?
More Americans are googling themselves — and many are checking out their friends, co-workers and romantic interests, too. In a report in December, the Pew Internet and American…
Amazon launches own e-book reader
Amazon.com is hoping to invigorate a nascent market for electronic books by introducing its own e-book reader with free wireless connectivity. Monday’s long-anticipated…
Ultra-high-speed internet gets massive boost
The ultra-high-speed Internet2 network just got 10 times faster, partly in anticipation of rising demand for capacity when the world’s largest particle collider opens near Geneva…
US libraries struggle to cope with internet demand
YouTube, online job applications and homework help sites have boosted demand and contributed to lines for internet access at United States public libraries, yet a new survey…
Tests to start of web addresses in foreign characters
The internet’s key oversight agency is on track to start testing addresses entirely in foreign characters by November, but rules for determining which ones to permit likely will…
CNN to stop charging for online video service
CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs (about R177) a year, becoming the latest news organisation to revamp its revenue model on the web.…
Is it time to scrap the internet?
Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the internet, some university researchers with the federal government’s blessing want to scrap all…