Popular online social network MySpace will begin sending online alerts to users in certain US regions to help find missing children, as part of an expansion of plans to expand safeguards for users. MySpace struck a partnership with the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children to enable MySpace Amber alerts, a programme between the…
This is from Mike Stopforth, Web 2.0 guru…I’ve already reserved my seat: I’m hosting another instalment of the infamous Geek Dinner movement, now branded “27“, on the 27th January at 5 pm in the Studio at Primi Piatti, Rosebank. The last one was an enormous success, and we’d like to keep the tradition going. I…
16 year old girl kidnapped by online predator using MXit. Avoid your child being next victim… Dear Parent and Teacher In October 2006, a sexual predator lured a schoolgirl using a cell phone-based messaging service. The suspect, a 33-year-old man, abducted and held the 16-year-old girl captive for five days, after he developed a cyber…
I’ve been hosting in America for more than two years now and will likely never, ever host in South Africa. A new article on ITWeb discussed the conundrum of hosting in South Africa here. There are many people in the Internet industry who advocate hosting in South Africa for some kind of patriotic or proudly…
Steve Jobs has done it again. Stealing the thunder from Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who was the keynote speaker at the CES Conference in Las Vegas. As it happens, my mentor, Arthur Goldstuck, is currently at CES but likely on his way back. Anyway, you can read here about how Apple does it. To get a…