Lights will go out around the world on Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign.
Technology giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter are offering digital ways to donate to Japan’s recovery efforts after their massive earthquake.
Facebook not only made household names out of its founders thanks to the movie <em>The Social Network</em>.
Angolan authorities on Monday arrested five people, including journalists, ahead of a planned protest against the rule of José Eduardo dos Santos.
Start-up SocialEyes on Monday introduced a service that lets people have one-on-one or group video chats with friends from Facebook.
International crime syndicates are increasingly using social networking sites such as Facebook to lure Filipinos into becoming drug mules.
In the past few weeks the world has been gripped by news from North Africa. Tunisia and Egypt are in the throes of change brought on by people power.
Can social media really promote democracy? <b>Chris Roper</b> argues for a more sophisticated understanding of freedom, enabled by technology.
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/ 2 February 2011
US academic leads intellectual backlash against
online communication and social networking.
News of Nelson Mandela’s hospital visit sparked wild rumours internationally. The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Vuvu Vena</b> gives her craziest five.
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/ 23 January 2011
So much for journalism being "the first draft of history". It’s more often the first draft of misapprehension, especially if the internet is involved.
How Twitter took over our reporter’s virtual — and real — life and why she likes it that way.
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/ 12 January 2011
In brochures Tunisia is a land of endless sandy beaches and welcoming bazaars. But behind that are legions of angry jobless youths who see no future.
Facebook is generating profits at a faster-than-expected rate and will have to disclose financial data similar to a publicly traded company.
We’re pretty used to hearing outlandish valuations on internet companies that, if they were people, would be barely out of nappies.
Facebook has raised $500m from Goldman Sachs and Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, in a deal that values the company at $5-billion.
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/ 23 December 2010
This year brought a new kind of hero as
<i>Kick-Ass</i> and <i>The Social Network</i> proved it’s the geeks who shall inherit the Earth.
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/ 16 December 2010
Facebook is using facial recognition software to let US users automatically identify friends in photos at the world’s leading online social network.
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/ 15 December 2010
Pakistan banned its cricketers from social networking sites Facebook and Twitter in the latest effort to exert discipline.
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/ 13 December 2010
Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online.
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/ 25 November 2010
The <i>M&G</i>’s <b>Faranaaz Parker</b> rounds up five quirky things you may have missed over the last week.
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/ 17 November 2010
From Crocs making a comeback to the home entertainment centre of the future, Faranaaz rounds up her weekly five items of quirky news.
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/ 17 November 2010
Did you go "uh?" when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook’s new email system isn’t email? Don’t worry — so did everyone else.
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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?
Facebook, which has more than double the active users of Gmail, is taking Google’s email giant on at its own game.
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/ 13 November 2010
Facebook is set to launch its latest Google-taunting product on Monday: the long-anticipated Facebook email system.
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/ 10 November 2010
The TV, radio, mobile phone and internet compete for the same consumer. Who will win?
From the first sentence, the first word, first nervily indrawn breath, The Social Network announces itself as the unmistakable work of Aaron Sorkin.
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/ 27 October 2010
"Where’s the business model?" echoes the cry of that most thick-skinned of beasts, the greater suited market analyst (<i>Homo Economicus</i>).
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/ 26 October 2010
Woolworths wasn’t the first company to feel the wrath of the online community in South Africa, and it certainly won’t be the last.
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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.
Facebook has unveiled tools to give users more control over personal information and let them set up cliques of friends.