Deadly protests that paralysed Mozambique's capital were spurred by a SMS that went viral on Maputo's cellphones, signalling the power of new technology in the hands of the poor.
Movies like Terminator and I, Robot have fuelled our imaginations with the improved quality of life - or sweeping planetary destruction - that might come of artificial intelligence.
For a decade, West Africa's main connection to the Internet has been a single fibre-optic cable in the Atlantic, a tenuous and expensive link for one of the poorest areas of the planet.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest world leader to fall victim to "Google bombing", with his Facebook page now associated with the French term for "asshole" on the search engine.
AP - A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia says judges may require warrants for police to get cell phone records that could help track a person's location.
AFP - US computer titan Hewlett-Packard filed suit against former chief executive Mark Hurd on Tuesday after he was named a co-president at US business software giant Oracle.
AP - For a dozen years, Google Inc. has been occasionally swapping its everyday logo for a "doodle," a sketch celebrating holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events, and showcasing designs from contest-winning students.
Reuters - The U.S. Justice Department is looking into allegations that Google Inc's purchase of airline ticketing firm ITA Software Inc will cost rivals access to data they need to compete with the search giant as it moves into the travel market, sources familiar with the probe said.
Personalised websites will be the future of the internet as people willingly share more of their information, Mark Zuckerberg predicted as he was grilled over Facebook’s approach to privacy.
Foxconn appeared to be losing control of its spiralling suicide crisis last night after another employee of the world’s biggest electronics assembler attempted to take his own life.