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/ 9 December 2010
When Google offers to buy your two-year-old website for as much as $6-billion, you’d have to be crazy to refuse, right?
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/ 24 November 2010
Like a typical youngest child, the internet is already at odds with one of its siblings — the tax man.
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/ 17 November 2010
The internet: A place disconnected from the gritty business of real life. But why isn’t the internet considered part of our real lives?
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/ 10 November 2010
The TV, radio, mobile phone and internet compete for the same consumer. Who will win?
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/ 13 October 2010
We human beings are an irrational bunch. When anything new comes along we tend to take one of three basic positions: deify, deny or demonise.
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/ 29 September 2010
If you sued one of the world’s largest companies for defamation and won, you might expect a bit more than €5 000.
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/ 16 September 2010
There was a whiff of desperation about Nokia’s annual "World Show" event in London on Tuesday.
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/ 8 September 2010
Imagine there was an force on the internet that could track you down within 24 hours, and deploy an army of foot soldiers to harrass you.
Listening to people choose baby names is a bit like listening to estate agents describe houses. "I want something classic yet modern …"
On July 19 a collective shudder of horror swept through the global book-printing industry.
A decade ago a sneak preview of the next version of Microsoft Windows would have been news for weeks — and not just in the tech press.
If you work for a print publication, you’re pretty tired of hearing people say that "print is dead".
Stop a passerby and ask them "what is the internet?" Their answer is guaranteed to focus on technology.
Finnish police probe theft of virtual furniture</a>" is one of those ridiculous headlines designed to lighten up a news agenda.
On May 31, more than 34Â 000 people around the world committed suicide — social media suicide that is.
It sounds like something out of a silly science-fiction movie: human infected with computer virus.
Location-based social networks add a new dimension to social networking: a person’s physical location.
For a 25-year-old, Mark Zuckerberg must have unusually thick skin.
Ah, Steve Jobs, master of all you survey. You’re a highly moral man. We can tell from your serious expression, steel-rimmed glasses and turtlenecks.
So it’s finally happened — Twitter has a business model. And as with most of its moves, the result is unexpected, elegant and somewhat inscrutable.
The Indaba has borne rich fruits since the first conference in 1995 the number and stature of speakers has increased with each year. This year’s event boasts 43 design gurus and local design talent is also amply represented reports Alistair Fairweather.