Google’s machine translation service added new languages: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh, Yiddish. Some of these languages have a small number of speakers: for example, according to Wikipedia, only 320,000 people speak Icelandic.
Swahili is a language spoken in Eastern Africa, Afrikaans is spoken in South Africa and Namibia, Yiddish has 3 million [...]
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An online encyclopedia aiming to describe every type of animal and plant on the planet has reached 170,000 entries and is helping research into aging, climate change and even the spread of insect pests.
The “Encyclopedia of Life” (www.eol.org), a project likely to cost $100 million launched in 2007, says it wants to describe all the [...]
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James Matthews from London is tasked with booking accommodation for his group of friends which consists of three couples (requiring three double rooms) to watch the UK national soccer team during the FIFA Soccer World Cup next year. They’ve decided that Johannesburg will be their preferred base, to be closer to most of the stadiums.
Search [...]
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A British husband and wife team have been waging a three-year battle to get their price comparison website recognised by Google in a saga that sheds new light on the power of the world’s largest search engine
Foundem.co.uk directs shoppers to online deals for goods such as TVs or flights, but has struggled since one day [...]
I was having a conversation with my hairdresser about booking appointments. She doesn’t work on a Monday and we had to cancel an appointment on Tuesday, so left I a message on her cellphone, which she didn’t get.
When we were there for the rescheduled appointment, we discussed the failings of telecommunications for people in a job [...]
Job-seeking in this 21st century recession may just have gone viral and mobile.
Since the start of the recession in December 2007, about 6.7 million workers have been laid off according to latest statistics — at a time the popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have exploded, drawing millions of users [...]
The wife of the CEO of Twitter is showing her devotion to her husband’s company by sending ‘tweets’ while giving birth.
Designer Sara Williams updated friends - and hundreds of thousands of strangers - live online after going into labour.
“Dear Twitter, My water broke,” she wrote at at 9pm California time (5am GMT).
“It wasn’t like Charlotte [...]
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, said it will buy FriendFeed, netting a group of prized ex-Google engineers in the fast-growing Internet business.
FriendFeed, an up-and-coming social media startup, lets people share content online in real time across various social networks and blogs.
The service is similar to, though less popular than Twitter, the microblogging site [...]
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President Barack Obama is still searching for the right person to lead the fight against an epidemic of cybercrime, the White House said on Tuesday as it came under fire following the resignation of a top cybersecurity adviser.
Melissa Hathaway, who led a 60-day White House review of cyber policies, resigned and said she had withdrawn [...]
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Cheaper and speedier Internet connection has arrived in South Africa and consumers are already benefiting from the lower costs.
However, the much-anticipated data wars that could take the worldwide web into townships and rural areas would only take place after the 2010 World Cup, said technology experts.
“One expects to see growth in townships throughout South Africa [...]
