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LAST week, the technology industry in particular, and the world at large, mourned the death of a visionary. Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died at the mere of 56, just one day after the announcement of the company’s latest iPhone release and new operating system. Naturally, in this day and age, the news […]
By NIKI CHEONG OVER the past few years, netizens have been obsessed with their cyber trail, making sure to log off from personal accounts, clearing their caches and deleting their browsing history, among others. When social media entered our consciousness, this obsession moved beyond just personal data – what else are we putting out there? […]
AMID all the excitement over the launch of Google+ (which, my friend David Lian wrote about in his column last week), many people have totally overlooked Facebook’s latest announcement – Facebook Video Calling. In a collaboration with Skype (not their first joint-project, mind you), Facebook is allowing users to “bring your conversations to life”. A […]
SOCIAL media has already made its mark in the mainstream line. Over the past couple of years, we have seen numerous companies – locally and globally – turn to it to promote their businesses. Large companies with massive marketing budgets, and smaller ones without, have used social media to not only promote their products but […]
WHEN Sohaib Athar (@Really Virtual) sent tweets out about the “rare event” – a helicopter hovering above Abbottabad, a city in Pakistan – a few nights ago, he didn’t imagine that he would be credited with “breaking” such an important piece of news. In fact, it was such an insignificant moment, that the second tweet […]
LAST Friday, many people on Twitter excitedly clicked on a link that led to the announcement of Google’s new product – Gmail Motion.
BAD boy actor Charlie Sheen (of the top-rated television sitcom Two and a Half Men fame) is the latest Hollywood celebrity to take Twitterverse by storm.
LAST week, some of you might have managed to check in onto Facebook Places via your iPhone (BlackBerry users were already able to do this a few months back).
OVER the past few days, I’ve been receiving messages that more or less say, “Wow, you’re a millionaire!”. Some were of course written in jest, but people are generally curious if it was true that Malaysian bloggers are earning RM1mil a year, following an article in a local Bahasa Malaysia daily. Blogger Mira Abu Bakar […]