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China web users turn keen eye back on government
Already under pressure to create jobs and growth while clinging to power, China’s Communist Party faces a growing headache from internet users.
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Don’t politicians like cellphones?
Political parties are taking a page out of the Obama campaign playbook. For the first time in South Africa, they’re using technology to woo voters.
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World’s poor drive cellphone growth
Six in 10 people around the world now have cellphone subscriptions, with developing countries accounting for about two-thirds of the phones in use.
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Tribunal: Costs award against Altech justified
The costs award against Altech was justified, the Competition Tribunal said on Monday.
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Broadening the band
Lloyd Gedye reports on why 2009 is the year of the internet in SA.
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US Congress gets its own YouTube sites
The US Congress is launching official YouTube channels where members of the House and Senate can create videos of floor speeches or hearings.
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China defends internet policies against Amnesty charges
Chinese authorities defended their internet censorship practices on Tuesday after a rights group accused them of cracking down.
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Divide between computers and TV crumbles
The wall between televisions and computers is crumbling and internet pioneer Yahoo! is swinging a virtual hammer.
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What are you doing?
Wars have always been waged on all sorts of fronts. They have also, of course, always been about words.
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Breaks in cables to Middle East disrupt internet
Breaks in three submarine cables that link Europe and the Middle East disrupted internet and international telephone services in Egypt on Friday.
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SA parties woo voters online
In the run-up to the 2009 elections SA political parties are using the internet and its tools to encourage a political conversation among voters.
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New cable to slash internet, phone costs
SA consumers can expect huge savings in telephone and internet costs in the next 12 to 18 months thanks to the launch of a second transatlantic cable.
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Internet usage in SA increases
The number of internet users in South Africa has increased at the fastest rate since 2001, according to a study released on Thursday.
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Outrage over planned telecom licence-fee hike
Value Added Network Services operators face another potential setback in their battle to compete equitably within the SA telecoms industry.
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Ethical hacking course
Does teaching computer hacking skills at university boost net security or set up students for a life of crime? asks Jackie Kemp.
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Internet TV website gets a facelift
Joost, an internet television website from the inventors of Skype, has received a technical facelift.
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What do you search for on the internet?
Google provides insight into the web-search habits of South Africans and users around the world, writes Craig Rodney.
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The Fifth Column
The fifth estate is a grouping that is slowly growing both in readership and respectability.
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Little white email lies
Experts have long known it is easier to lie in writing than in real life, where deception is made more difficult by physical prompts.
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MySpace gives small operators advertising muscle
MySpace on Monday unleashed a tool to let small operators with tight budgets easily target online advertising to preferred demographics.
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Using the net to fix it yourself
With the credit crunch, the internet is tempting more people to save money by having a go at fixing things themselves.
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Untangling the web
Jack Schofield meets Vint Cerf, the "father of the internet", and finds out what he thinks about net neutrality, spam and abuse of the web.
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Online lovers turn out to be neighbours
A British couple who met on a dating website turned out to be neighbours who had lived only a few houses apart for 17 years.
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Bank-related web crime on the rise
Bank-related internet crime is the fastest-growing crime in the world, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre said on Thursday.
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Computer applications float in internet cloud
When Merlin Mann is on the go and needs to access his computer information he steps into the cloud.
What will the Large Hadron Collider do for us?
After all, lots of people know that the world wide web came out of Cern, which is home once again to a particle collider project.
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What you need to know about Chrome
Google’s new Chrome web browser is being hailed as a game-changer. Does that mean you should download it right now and spend the time to learn it?
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View the web in three dimensions
An Australian company this week launched a free tool it says offers web browsers a world-first opportunity to view the internet in three dimensions.
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Teaching words to computers
The internet got smarter this week with the release of a semantic map that teaches computers the meanings behind words.
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Circuit behind the internet age turns 50
The computer-chip industry on Friday celebrated the 50th birthday of the integrated circuit, a breakthrough that set the stage for the internet age.
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New Michael Moore film on free web release
Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is to release his new film via the internet for free as a gesture to fans, he said in a statement on Friday.
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Google’s Chrome lacks polish
Google’s new web browser does much of what a browser needs to do these days, but falls short of Google’s goals.
