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Pope ministers to Twitter flock
Pope Benedict XVI is due to send out his first, much-anticipated Twitter message on Wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of followers already signed up to receive the tweet.
12 December 2012
Brief Facebook outage after infrastructure change
Facebook was unreachable briefly on Monday after the social network made a change to part of its infrastructure dealing with routing traffic to its online address.
11 December 2012
Kazakhstan businessman invested $13 million in Russian Internet
Russian investment company Fastlane Ventures announced attraction of $13 million from Kazakhstan businessman Kenes Rakishev.
11 December 2012
McAfee discharged from Guatemala hospital: official
US Internet security guru John McAfee was discharged from a Guatemala police hospital Thursday after being admitted with what his lawyer called "heart problems," a hospital official said.
08 December 2012
Award.kz awarded the Best Website of the Decade in Kazakhstan
Tengrinews.kz was declared the Best Website of the Decade in Kazakhstan.
05 December 2012
Pope to start tweeting next week
Pope Benedict XVI will join Twitter from December 12, with regular tweets in eight languages from the account @pontifex just in time for Christmas.
04 December 2012
New media world won't end need for journalists: study
Bloggers, "crowdsourcing" and computer-generated articles are making contributions to the news media, but they cannot replace professional journalists in digging up important news.
30 November 2012
Cyber Monday sales sizzling: survey
Online retail sales were jumping for "Cyber Monday," the key Web shopping day following the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
27 November 2012
Cross-dressing Chinese grandfather finds fame
A 72-year-old Chinese man who became an Internet sensation after his granddaughter used him as a cross-dressing model to promote her clothing store was delighted at his new-found fame, she said.
24 November 2012
Anonymous hacked Kazakhstan Culture Ministry
Anonymous hacked the website of Kazakhstan Ministry of Culture and Information.
23 November 2012
Musicians blast bill to trim Pandora royalties
A group of 125 leading musicians is calling on the US Congress to kill a bill backed by online broadcaster Pandora that would slash royalties on Internet radio.
18 November 2012
Online museum showcases Britain's hidden art
Britain has some of the best galleries in the world, but the vast majority of the oil paintings in public ownership have for decades been hidden away in private offices or storage.
15 November 2012
Australian wins $208k from Google for gang links
Google was ordered to pay Aus$200,000 (US$208,000) in damages to an Australian man Monday after a jury found the Internet giant defamed him by publishing material linking him to mobsters.
12 November 2012
Australia scraps plan to filter Internet
Australia on Friday scrapped a controversial plan to filter the Internet, saying it will instead block hundreds of websites identified by Interpol as among the worst child abuse sites.
09 November 2012
Election most tweeted event in US political history
Election day in the United States became the most tweeted about event in US political history Tuesday with enthusiastic netizens firing off 20 million poll-related tweets.
07 November 2012
Instagram gets Facebook feel with online profiles
Picture sharing website Instagram on Monday began rolling out online profiles that let people showcase themselves and photos they've taken with the Facebook-owned smartphone application.
06 November 2012
Cuba accuses US of training dissidents via Internet
Cuba accused the United States Friday of helping its opponents access the Internet as part of a drive to undermine the Havana government.
04 November 2012
'Digital eternity' beckons as death goes high-tech
Death is no longer the fusty business it once was: from swipeable bar codes on headstones to designer urns, webcam-based ceremonies and virtual memorials, funerals have shot into the 21st century.
31 October 2012
France makes billion euro tax claim against Google: report
French tax authorities have made a billion-euro ($1.3 billion) claim against Google to pressure it in a dispute over compensation to media websites.
31 October 2012
Brazilian student sells virginity for $780,000
A Brazilian student has sold her virginity in an online auction for US$780,000 as part of a documentary organised by an Australian filmmaker, although a man who did the same only fetched US$3,000.
25 October 2012