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“We mustn’t speak to strangers.” Popular Indian radio presenter Malavika Varadan, challenged this societal norm, in her talk at TEDxBITSPilaniDubai

Twitter has signalled that third-party Twitter services will soon get some new competition. From Twitter. In this video below, Loren Feldman from 138media delivers the unvarnished version as he sees it (as always).

Humble beginnings inspired a voracious entrepreneurial streak, and Kogan is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to his startup, Kogan.com, a wildly successful online retailer.

Microsoft is showing signs of renewal, and this Future Vision Montage (presented at this year's Wharton Business Technology Conference) proves it. It might contain more fiction than science, but this showcase of Microsoft's futuristic product line, circa 2019, contains a mouth-watering array of technologies that will deliver seemless interactivity beyond the desktop.

Pebble began its Kickstarter campaign on April 11. The target investment was $100,000. Within 28 hours, more than $1 million had been raised. Four days later, the tally has just clocked over $2.7 million. Could Pebble become the coolest thing since the iPhone?

Marketing and entrepreneurship go hand in hand. How else does one convince an investor to back a product that doesn't exist yet? The new documentary film 'Art and Copy', by Doug Pray examines advertising, creativity and inspiration and how effective and accurate pitching can sell just about anything.

I did test this myself but, I have a toilet that is almost silent. The best I got was an ad for Zero Dark Thirty. Dylan from Household Hacker got an entirely different result.

On 25 April, Google released its latest ranking algorithm, now called the Penguin Update (for reasons known only to Google). Since then, the same set of five to eight recommendations have arrived in my personal inbox from a number of reputable sources. They are supposed to describe factors that seem to help search engine rankings post-Penguin. However, to be frank, most of these recommendations don't seem like anything new. In fact, they only seem to reinforce what people who have a basic understanding of SEO already know. And one recommendation seems downright wrong.

Who says print is dead? Commonwealth Bank tapped the talents of Sydney computer graphics company Explore Engage and put out a newspaper ad that jumps off the page. All you need is a smartphone camera loaded with a reader app.

It's been a big year for vending machines. This often overlooked mechanical devices have been the stars of many of the year's biggest viral videos to come out of the FMCG industry. Has the vending machine had it's moment in the spotlight, or will it's popularity continue on in 2013?

The music industry's backlash against Auto-Tune is well-documented, though it reportedly endures on countless CDs and on every episode of "Glee." LaDiDa isn't designed to be insidious; it's tech is actually quite cool. The user chooses a musical tempo and style, then serenades the iPhone or iPad. The app uses the voice to compose a melody. Think of it as karaoke in reverse.

It is one of my all-time favourite episodes of the IT Crowd. It's the one where Roy and Moss let Jen (my namesake) take the...

You know how they say you should drink a couple of litres of water per day? Most of us genuinely want to adhere to...

Can you hear that dull roar? That's the sound of men the world over rejoicing at the invention of the teletransporter, a devilish 21st Century telephone booth concept for pubs and clubs. It provides convincing audio ambience for that difficult phone call to your significant other, helping you defuse a potentially volatile situation so you can return to the bar and enjoy a few more refreshments with your mates before heading home. Domestic harmony, guaranteed.

It has been said to me that I can turn any video into something relevant to business and entrepreneurship. I like to think of...

What do tech-head muso students do in their spare time? Well the ones at Stanford University in California started an orchestra in which every member has the same instrument with the capacity to produce a near limitless variety of sound. As you can see in this excellent New York Times video profile (read the accompanying article here), the end result is avant-guarde to say the least (think Yo Yo Ma on LSD).

This video may be more than seven months old, but it's still relevant to the revolutionary leaps being made in the Nanoscience field. Launched alongside...

I remember the exact moment I decided to leave my corporate career. I was at my desk, about a month after returning from parental leave....

In this short instructional video created by MBE Education and The Entourage, Jack Delosa shares how to prepare an Executive Summary, one of the...

Like most would-be web-entrepreneurs, we discovered very early on that the 'Fields of Dreams' approach to web development is, unsurprisingly, flawed (i.e. 'if you build it, they will NOT come'). If building a profitable (or even sustainable) website were that easy, every web developer would be too busy swimming in their personal Jacuzzis of cash to apply their web-developing expertise to the many projects of small business owners and marketing professionals.