Smart devices will be the norm of the future with three dominant platforms – Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows – all competing to meet the mobile computing demands of general and business consumers, a new report said.
Erik Pineda Nov 09, 2012
Reelected president Barack Obama won over pop sensation Justin Beiber in Twittersphere tweeter with the most retweeted tweet in the history of the internet.
Kristin Dian Mariano Nov 09, 2012
To indicate the growing use of Instagram among social networking sites, in the Tuesday election in the U.S., over 100,000 photos taken with the photo application was tagged with #iVoted and 150,000 with #election2012.
Vittorio Hernandez Nov 09, 2012
While the role of Facebook and Twitter in helping elect and celebrate the Wednesday poll victory of U.S. President Barack Obama has once more been emphasised, the newbie social networking site Google+ appears quiet and out of the political equation.
Vittorio Hernandez Nov 09, 2012
If 18-year-old Kristen Neel of Georgia were a quiz bee contestant, she probably would easily lose if the questions were on current events.
Vittorio Hernandez Nov 09, 2012
The Wednesday U.S. presidential election proved that a face-off looms between social media networking sites Facebook or Twitter similar to the tight battle between Democrat candidates Barack Obama and Republican bet Mitt Romney.
Vittorio Hernandez Nov 08, 2012
Microsoft is fully embracing the $USUS8.5 billion internet communication technology that came with its Skype acquisition in 2011, disclosing on Tuesday that the messaging client would be its sole application for hundreds of millions of global users to connect via PCs or mobile devices.
Erik Pineda Nov 07, 2012
The Anonymous hacking spree on Symantec and PayPal is apparently just the inauguration of defacements and document dumps on the 5th of November that is marked as the Guy Fawkes Day or a day of protest.
Jamelle Agbuis Nov 06, 2012
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg along with two other key decision makers at the social-media giant took part in Facebook Inc. share sale amounting to millions of dollars this week following the expiry of the restrictions on insider trading.
Jamelle Agbuis Nov 06, 2012
Africans are making a bid to be a major hub of mobile gaming. With more than 700 million mobile broadband subscribers in the entire continent, a growing number of young entrepreneurs are going digital and creating innovative and interactive content in their own home market.
Vittorio Hernandez Nov 06, 2012
Local telco subscribers were being ripped off on current data plans offered by the country’s three major players, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) said on Monday.
Erik Pineda Nov 05, 2012
Flava Works, creator of gay pornographic films which feature black and Latino men, has been awarded $1.5 million by a federal court in Illinois due to the damage caused by Kywan Fisher, who uploaded copyrighted gay porn movies using BitTorrent. The penalty is believed to be the biggest awarded in file-sharing cases.
Vittorio Hernandez Nov 05, 2012
Kim Dotcom announced on Friday plans for Mega, a service which will replace the file-sharing site MegaUpload.
Vittorio Hernandez Nov 02, 2012
Gmail is the world's most popular email service, according to a report from an Internet analytics company. There are at least three reasons why Gmail users "hang out." From being an invitation-only service in 2004, Gmail had drawn a solid number of regular users. Google's mail service had 287.9 million unique visitors in October.
Arlene Paredes Nov 02, 2012
Microsoft’s global marketing blitz is in full swing, deliberately gunning for every possible market to realise the target numbers earlier set by company CEO Steve Ballmer for the newly-unveiled Windows 8.
Erik Pineda Nov 02, 2012
Australia's federal government has teamed up with Facebook and Headspace and Project Rocket, a youth mental health group, to battle cyber bullying. They launched on Friday, Nov 2, the new campaign Be Bold and Stop Bullying.
Vittorio Hernandez Nov 02, 2012
A Melbourne man had asked Google to remove images of him alongside a convicted druglord in the search engine's results page. Google should have not ignored his request. When Google's lawyers said the search engine was merely indexing web pages, a jury at the Victoria Supreme Court said Google should have responded to a defamation notice.
Arlene Paredes Nov 01, 2012
People Devising Looting Sprees via Twitter in Wake of Hurricane Sandy May Find Armed Resistance Waiting For Them
Jamelle Agbuis Oct 31, 2012
The Australia Post announced on Tuesday the launch of its digital mailbox, which would serve as a digital storage vault for Australians and would connect consumers with banks, utility companies and government agencies.
Vittorio Hernandez Oct 31, 2012
WikiLeaks’ founder Julia Assange is reportedly sick and Ecuadorian embassy officials in London have appealed to British authorities to grant the Aussie whistleblower safe passage so he can be brought to a hospital.
Erik Pineda Oct 25, 2012
Australia has joined forces with government cyber warriors from the United States and the United Kingdom to increase nations’ capabilities of thwarting attempts by unscrupulous hackers to breach the security protocols of computer systems maintained by public and private entities.
Erik Pineda Oct 24, 2012
Pro-smoking applications have proliferated on mobile apps, which a new report said were actually masquerading as game or entertainment apps that in effect were being employed as subtle promotion of tobacco products.
Erik Pineda Oct 23, 2012
Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Graeme Samuel is “cheerleader for the NBN,” and naturally he would support the $37 billion Labor broadband initiative that would deliver high-speed internet access across Australia.
Erik Pineda Oct 23, 2012
There is a great need among many mothers for breast milk for their newborn babies, and one of the ways this need is being met is through Facebook groups dedicated to buying, selling, or simply trading breast milk.
Jamelle Agbuis Oct 22, 2012
For a period of almost three months now, Google Inc.'s shares have tenaciously retained near high records, almost 30 percent of which has been fuelled by the rising optimism regarding internet advertising. In spite of this fact, there is a fear on Wall Street that Google Inc.'s shares might just be running out of the stream.
Jamelle Agbuis Oct 19, 2012
Popular BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay (TPB) has commenced the migration of its operations to the cloud, hoping that the move will shield it from threats of shutdown that befell similar online services.
Erik Pineda Oct 18, 2012
To indicate their dislike of telemarketers, 5.4 million Australian households have since signed up with the national Do Not Call Register. The list just breached the 5 million mark since the registry was started in 2007.
Vittorio Hernandez Oct 17, 2012
Security experts have always warned that risks constantly hound an online lifestyle and mobile computing is not spared from the ever-present threats that come with the expanding ecosystems.
Erik Pineda Oct 16, 2012
Facebook privacy settings seem to be working backwards, so user control is being compromised. Lives are ruined when long-kept secrets are outed in an instant, and no one is ready for the outcome.
Arlene Paredes Oct 16, 2012
Austrian sportsman Felix Baumgartner broke on Monday two world records with his successful leap from the edge of space from a balloon build for the event.
Vittorio Hernandez Oct 16, 2012
