Twitter updates TweetDeck
Twitter is showing a continued commitment to its popular desktop and Web property TweetDeck with the release of an updated version that brings the “New-New Twitter” experience to Windows, Mac, and Chrome desktops. The new 1.3 version brings with it a bevy of new features that will keep Twitter-holics glued to even more columns for even
Has Google+ become a virtual ghost town?
The average Google+ user only spends an average of three minutes a month on the social network, while MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter are all seeing more time spent per user each month, according to research firm comScore. In a scathing Wall Street Journal report titled “The Mounting Minuses at Google+”, the case
Will Twitter ever be a contender in online ad war?
For years, Google and Facebook have been waging trench warfare for big-brand advertising budgets. Billions of dollars are up for grabs, and since this money constitutes the bulk of revenue for both companies, the stakes are high. Twitter, which last week launched a self-service ad platform, is a relative
S Africans love to chirp on Twitter
South Africans are the most active tweeters on the African continent, producing twice as many tweets as Kenya, the next most active country. According to communications consultancy Portland Communications, more than 5m tweets were sent from SA in the last quarter of 2011. Nigeria, Egypt
ZA Tech Show: Episode 195 – ‘Extremely rad’
Your crew this week consists of Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard and Simon Dingle. They discuss Alan Knott-Craig taking the reins at Cell C, Jeffrey Hedberg leaving Altech, BlackBerry’s CEO shuffle, Microsoft’s renaissance post Gates, CEO Twitter rockstars and social networking in 2012, and much more
Anti-trust or anti-Google?
It’s become a rite of passage for the world’s biggest technology companies. As soon as you’ve fought your way to the top and become the darling of both stock markets and customers, regulators begin to cry “monopoly”. It happened to IBM in the 1960s
Social media strengthen democracy, US says
The role and importance of social media in world politics are growing and will continue to do so, says Alec Ross, senior advisor on innovation and technology at the US department of state in the office of secretary of state Hilary Clinton. Ross was
SA Newsmakers of the Year – the top five
And here they are. TechCentral’s top five newsmakers of 2011. Our “Newsmakers of the Year” award is presented to individuals we believe had the biggest impact on SA’s technology sector in the past 12 months. For the most part, they’re also the the people who made the headlines during the
MWeb uses social media to pressure Telkom
Naspers-owned Internet service provider MWeb has launched a social media campaign in an attempt to pressure Telkom to stop forcing its broadband asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) customers to pay for telephone line rental if they don’t have a fixed-line
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