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SA unwilling to pay more for 4G
Operators in SA will be challenged to find the right price elasticity between 3G and 4G speeds, says Accenture's Tammy Whyman. Though the majority of consumers globally are willing to pay additional monthly fees for mobile Internet services that would be 10times faster than their current connections, South Africans are less inclined to do so. This was one of the biggest findings ...
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Yes Facebook can share your info
Siegel+Gale found that significantly less than half of respondents understood Facebook privacy policies, and just over one third had a good grasp of Google's use of personal data. According to the survey, the policies were deemed harder to understand than government notices, bank credit card agreements and bank reward-programme ...
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NSA fears spark traffic surge on DuckDuckGo search engine
DuckDuckGo .The site, which promises not to send users' searches to other sites or store any personal information, generated just under 3.1m direct queries on Monday (17 June), compared to its daily average of 1.8m direct queries in the month of May.The growth is revealed ...
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Insensitive Japanese politicians sink in social media swamp
(48 mins ago) On the internet, no one can save you from yourself. That is a lesson many gaffe-prone Japanese politicians have learned recently. In the latest flap, a senior reconstruction official in charge of helping victims of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear meltdown was dismissed last week after he used a scatological insult on Twitter to deride civil activists. Another official's loss ...
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7 Great Sites To Learn Online Video Skills
Much has been written in these columns about the use of online video and how it is becoming essential for any serious brand online. It's used in promotion, video ads, "how to" and explainer videos, user-generated videos, contests, live event streaming and much more. But if you know little or nothing about video production, where do you start and how difficult is it likely to be? ...
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Avoid social media slipups the Dunkin Donuts way
(MoneyWatch) It's increasingly common to see businesses suffer at the hands of some social media faux pas. It can come in many forms, from having ...
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Like everything Facebook does now adding hashtags is about money
How hashtags work: For example, typing a number sign in front of "ladygaga" or "sunset" will turn the words into a link that users can click on to find posts that mention Lady Gaga or sunsets. ...
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Orange Senegal cuts cost of voice calls and internet access
Following a one-year consultation with its customers, Senegalese mobile operator Orange Senegal, a wholly owned subsidiary of fixed line incumbent Sonatel, itself a 42.30%-owned subsidiary of France Telecom-Orange, has announced plans to introduce new, cheaper voice calls and mobile internet access rates - a move that it says will benefit the more than 7.2 million subscribers on its books. ...
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Facebooks face-recognition faces firestorms
Facebook will once again find itself in the center of firestorms related to privacy issues as its move to enable facial recognition across its entire social networking site stirs ire among users.Facebook noted that starting in just a few weeks, its system will scan all photos posted to Facebook and will offer up the names of the people who appear in the frame.All of Facebook's users are ...
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Disruptive tech for better education
Smart devices and social media are the way forward for education in Africa, say education experts. With the increasing prevalence of mobile devices in classrooms, teachers need to be much more tech-savvy than they have ever had to be before, to be able to cope with this new learning environment, says member of the ICT in Education Excellence Group in the Scottish Government, Jaye ...
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Wa wa boo hoo Rami Sabri closes Facebook account after criticism
young singer Rami Sabri has closed his Facebook account after fans relentlessly criticized his continual delays in releasing his third album that's been two whole years in the making.The Egyptian songster has used every excuse in the book for the album's delay, including unstable conditions in the region and problems with production in London, while some fans believe the real answer is ...
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SA premiers Twitter feed cut
THE tweets of South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill have been blocked from an internal feed to public servants in his own ...
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China executes official for child rapes after online uproar
BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in central China executed a former Communist Party official for raping 11 underage girls, state media said on Wednesday, following an online uproar about the latest case of abuse of ...
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Facebook Boosts Organ Donor Registration
Social media site 'Facebook' boosted the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors 21-fold in just one day, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers. The report, published in the American Journal of Transplantation, indicates that social media may be a successful way to make people more aware of the organ shortage in the U.S. The rise was seen in May ...
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One million advertisers use Facebook
Facebook said on Tuesday it now has one million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are small business owners who have flocked to the world's number one social network. Facebook executives are hoping to net even more small advertisers since 16 ...
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Google’s Mike Miller says B2B businesses use Internet to inform purchases
A recent interview with Mike Miller, the director of Business and Industrial Markets at Google, showed that many B2B companies today are using search engines before making final purchasing decisions. Speaking to eMarketer, Miller explained that two years ago, around 71% of B2B firms said they ...
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Parvum Opus Followers Flock To Popes Latin Twitter Feed
The papal Twitter account in Latin has attracted more than 100,000 followers in six months, far exceeding expectations. It was launched under the previous pope, Benedict XVI, and continues under the current pontiff, Francis ...
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Sport audiences increasingly social media savvy
Australian sport audiences are getting more social media savvy, mobile, and fanatical, reveals the PERFORM Global Sports Media Consumption Report, released today. "This second annual report into how Australians are engaging with sports media confirms our belief that fans are increasing their demand for content across a range of platforms," says managing director of PERFORM ...
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Free Guide to Conducting a Successful Twitter Campaign – Free eBook
By now it is well understood that social media is not an option for businesses, it is a necessity. Not only does social media marketing allow you to reach a wider and more diverse audience than ever before, it also increases the value of your ad by offering a deeper level of tracking, measurement and targeting capabilities. Twitter is an extremely powerful platform for marketers and ...
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Kenya Orange Customers Can Access Facebook Without Internet
Orange customers with handsets that do not have internet can now access Facebook, for 10, 50 or 100 shillings daily, weekly or monthly respectively. The mobile service provider has unveiled Facebook Bila Net, that can be accessed by dialing *32#. The mobile service provider hopes to tap into the growing internet usage as it grows its customer ...
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Facebook push for memorial plaque for Adelaide food writer Howard Twelftree in Central Market
A FACEBOOK page has been created to gather support for a memorial plaque in honour of Adelaide food writer Howard Twelftree who died recently. Twelftree, who wrote under the nom de plume John McGrath in The Adelaide Review, was a popular and respected restaurant reviewer. The memorial plaque has been suggested for one of Twelftree's favourite food spots, the Adelaide Central Market and ...
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Nawaz Sharifs million dollar watch rumours go viral on Twitter
Islamabad, June 18 : Twitter reports of a PPP leader wearing a 'million dollar watch', have been confirmed that it was none other than Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who reportedly wore a 'Meteoris' watch during the national budget ...
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Zuckerberg asks Samsung for Facebook phone sources
Mark Zuckerberg, one of the young cofounders of Facebook, on Tuesday met with Samsung Electronics executives including the heir Lee Jay-yong and mobile unit chief Shin Jong-kyun to ask Samsung to manufacture a "Facebook-friendly" phone, industry watchers said. "Facebook has every intention of becoming the second Google, and with that intent in mind, Zuckerberg is said to have ...
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LeBron James Lost headband won game broke Twitter
San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker (9) and Miami Heat forward LeBron James (6) collide during the second half of Game 6 of their NBA Finals basketball series, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne ...
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Facebook back up after internal issue
The message some Facebook users saw Tuesday when they went to Facebook.com. Facebook was down Tuesday night for some users, with an outage that seemed to peak at about 9 p.m. ET.The problem, a spokesman for the social network said, should be fully resolved."Earlier today, an internal issue in our Web infrastructure caused the site to be slow or unavailable for a brief period of time," ...
Calcutta Spotlight
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Stephen Court disaster: any lessons learned?
Over 700 buildings in Calcutta are not compliant with safety regulations with regard to the risk of fire, and the Stephen Court disaster was a tangible example of what can happen when a fire breaks out in an unsafe building. Following that disaster, the local government seems to be taking a harder line on fire safety.
At 2.30pm on the 23 March, 2010, a devastating fire, allegedly caused by an electrical short circuit, ripped through the iconic Stephen Court building in Calcutta, destroying a large part of the 150-year-old office and residential block and killing over 30 people. Read more
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