Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
bobbie johnsonlatest news & developments

How big is the Facebook economy?

Investors are pumping money into web services that are reliant on Facebook. So how big is the economy around the world’s most popular social network?

Will you be using Google Buzz?

Whatever Google Buzz is, it’s certainly got people talking — but will they also be using the company’s new social networking features?

Twitter: ‘Maybe we can be a company of hundreds’

In the final instalment of our three part chat with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, he discusses the site’s crucial moments so far.

Twitter: ‘We still have a way to go before we’re mainstream’

Last week I met up with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to discuss life at the company, and to find out what things are like inside the start-up.

Twitter’s Biz Stone: ‘We got lucky’

I met up with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to discuss life at the company, and to find out what things are like inside the most talked-about start-up.

How many people are really going to skip Windows 7?

Headlines abound suggesting that the majority of people are going to avoid the new operating system — but it might not be over for Bill Gates.

An old-fashioned kind of geek

In the early 90s he helped to shape the internet. Now Douglas Rushkoff is back — with a plan to wrest control from our big corporations.

Inside the mind of Steve Jobs

Revealing documents from a court deposition last year show exactly what Steve Jobs thinks of his role at Apple.

Egypt says no to GPS devices

Apple is not the first company to fall foul of the ban, which has been in place for five years.

Yahoo!’s Yang quits

The billionaire co-founder is seen as an obstacle to change and the lower share price may attract a new Microsoft bid, writes Bobbie Johnson.

Little white email lies

Experts have long known it is easier to lie in writing than in real life, where deception is made more difficult by physical prompts.

Grand Theft threatens Hollywood

Critics of ultra-violent video games will not be the only ones watching carefully as the latest instalment of the <i>Grand Theft Auto</i> series is released: the suits in…

Return of the business brat pack

When British dotcom entrepreneur Calum Brannan had his first meeting with potential investors last year, he immediately encountered a problem. My uncle had driven me down to…

Caught out on Wikipedia

Editing your own entry on Wikipedia is usually the province of vain celebrities, but a new website has uncovered dozens of companies that have been editing the site in order to…

Big gun bags VoIP start-up

Deutsche Telekom is investing $20-million in hotly tipped internet telephony start-up Jajah.com as the online communications industry continues its rapid growth. Jajah has…

What is Twitter, and why should I care?

It’s a kind of social networking site, and it is generating huge amounts of buzz among the web’s early adopters thanks to a simple conceit. All <i>Twitter.com</i> does is ask:…

Casting from the broad to the pod

In the heyday of radio, the wireless was the centre of people’s lives. The image of families gathered around their radio set is a familiar one — listening to a broadcast was a…

Retro all the rage in handsets

First it was vintage heavy metal T-shirts, then came leg warmers and Lycra. Now old cellphones have become the retro fashion accessory to be seen with. Twenty years after…