Mandela tops 2013 Google searches
Nelson Mandela topped Google's list of the hottest searches for 2013 as the Internet giant on Tuesday provided a look at the "spirit of the times" online.
19 December 2013
'Golden Tweet' is Twitter's most echoed note in 2013
Twitter revealed Thursday that a message acknowledging the death of "Glee" television show star Cory Monteith was the most reposted tweet on the globally popular messaging platform this year.
13 December 2013
Twitter adds photo sharing to direct messages
Updated mobile software rolled out Tuesday by Twitter lets smartphone users send pictures in direct, personal messages seen only by recipients instead of being shared publicly on the social network.
12 December 2013
US, Britain 'spying on virtual world': report
Freshly leaked documents by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Monday revealed spies disguised as fantasy characters prowled online games hunting terrorists.
11 December 2013
Facebook joins NYU in artificial intelligence lab
Facebook unveiled plans Monday on a partnership with New York University for a new center for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data.
10 December 2013
Microsoft leads attack on search traffic thieves
Microsoft on Thursday announced it worked with police in Europe and the United States to disrupt a "dangerous" army of virus-infected computers used to hijack searches at Google, Bing and Yahoo.
06 December 2013
Online game teaches risks of personal data exposure
Sexual orientation, private debt, medical records, even your favourite ice cream flavour: do you know much of this personal information is out there and available for sale?
NSA snooped on Islamists' porn habits: report
The National Security Agency planned to discredit Islamist "radicals" by spying on their online pornography habits, The Huffington Post reported Wednesday, citing a document leaked by ex-intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
1.6 billion people on social networks: study
An estimated 1.61 billion people, more than one in five globally, will log in to social networking sites at least monthly this year, the research firm eMarketer said Tuesday.
21 November 2013
Russian Internet titan Mail.ru targets US
Russian Internet titan Mail.ru on Tuesday hit the US market with email, text messaging and gaming applications for mobile devices.
20 November 2013
Google blocks child porn from 100,000 searches
Google boss Eric Schmidt said Monday that the tech giant had developed new technology that makes it harder to find child sexual abuse images on the web.
Man charged with posting 'Anonymous' symbol on Singapore website
Singapore on Tuesday charged a local man with hacking a council website and posting a symbol associated with international hacker group Anonymous, amid concerns about new Internet laws in the city-state.
12 November 2013
Hackers expose Asia's weak cyber defences
A rash of website hackings in the Asia-Pacific has exposed weak cyber defences which must be improved to help the region deal with more sophisticated and sinister threats, particularly from criminal organisations, analysts said.
09 November 2013
Google ends mystery: barge to be 'interactive space'
Google ended nearly two weeks of speculation about an enormous floating barge in San Francisco Bay, saying it would be "an interactive space" for learning about technology.