What is Facebook?
Facebook was started in 2004 by two students, as an online alternative to the traditional yearbook and it has quickly become a classic example of the latest online craze called social networking.
Currently, Facebook has an estimated 31 million subscribers from around the world and last year it turned down a US$2.3 billion offer to purchase from Google!
Negative influence of Facebook
The impact this seemingly innocuous site is having on South African businesses is growing. There are over 170,000 South Africans registered and Facebook is costing business owners time and …

A few years ago, many of us were still using those little 3.5 inch floppy disks to save our valuable information on. While these magnetic disks shielded in a flimsy plastic casing were the best and most portable option most of us had, they were far from perfect. At what always seemed to be the most inopportune time, our floppy disks would fail and/or loose our homework assignments for school, a presentation for work, or those important backups from our personal banking software. We struggled for a better way. While …

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — February 20, 2008 –AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it has open sourced it’s AMD Performance Library (APL). Now referred to as “Framewave version 1.0,” the goal of this new open source project is to further enable the performance-optimized APL and expand its functionality beyond the existing core media capabilities, ensuring developers have an accelerated conduit to high performance application development. Contributions by partners, customers and the broader open-source software development community will accelerate library optimizations and feature enhancements in-line with their respective needs while AMD software …

The new G700 and G900 phones are designed to give back time. They place personal organiser features and easy finger-touch control within familiar form factors.
Barcelona, Spain – 10th February 2008 – Sony Ericsson today launched a new generation of phone: Touchscreen organisers with a broad appeal. The G700 and G900 phones are essential tools designed to organise the lives of all those with busy schedules to juggle, both at home and at work.

The G700 is here to help you live your life to the full. This personal organiser in-your-pocket …

Along with dedicated and specially created photographic functions, the Samsung G800 mobile phone now features more than its competitors can offer and also more than the high-end Samsung phones do. The Samsung G800 has an in built music player that supports all major formats, including MP3, AAC+, AAC and WMA formats. The G800 offers users world wide access with the wireless Bluetooth stereo headsets and 3G HSDPA connectivity.
The dedication of Samsung to the electronics world and the Information and Communication Revolution has been on display with their offerings of mobile …

Company Tops Employee Ratings in Germany for Fourth Year Running; Receives Award in Japan for Second Time
WALLDORF, Germany - February 13, 2008 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has been named “Germany’s Best Employer” for the fourth consecutive year in the 2008 “Great Place to Work” initiative, and that it has been named among the leading employers in Japan by the Great Place to Work Institute (GPTW). The designations recognize SAP’s efforts to provide rewarding career opportunities and a positive work environment for its employees around the …

Gobby is a free software collaborative real-time editor available on Windows and Unix-like platforms. (It runs on Mac OS X using Apple’s X11.app). It was initially released in June 2005 by the 0×539 dev group.
It features a client-server architecture which supports multiple documents in one session, document synchronisation on request, password protection and an IRC-like chat for communication. Users could choose a colour to highlight the text they have written in a document. Gobby is fully Unicode-aware, provides syntax highlighting for most programming languages and has basic Zeroconf support.
A dedicated …

Not many of us intentionally leave our cars unlocked or the front of our homes open to strangers. But we often leave our computers wide open to anyone and everyone that may want to snoop.
To get and keep our computers safe from hackers,or anyone wanting to have a look in our computers,we need the aid and assistance of something commonly called Firewalls.
A Firewall can be hardware or software that acts as a gatekeeper to your computer. It does this by monitoring all internet traffic coming in and going out of …

Handset Leaders Including LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Confirm LiMo as the Unifying Force in Mobile Linux
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, February 11, 2008 — LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, unveiled today the first wave of handsets using the LiMo Platform™—the world’s first globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. Initial LiMo handsets are today confirmed by handset industry leaders including LG Electronics, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung.
LiMo’s technology will …

February 11, 2008, Barcelona, Spain — LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, announced that it will demonstrate its almost market-ready Long Term Evolution (LTE) – a top contender to become the standard technology for 4G mobile networks – in cooperation with Alcatel-Lucent and Nortel at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain from February 11 through 14.
The wireless LTE technology LG will showcase this year is two to three times faster than the wired technology it …