Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Microsoft’s Azure cloud service went down this week, taking out the UK government’s CloudStore and disrupting many businesses in the process. The failure “appears” to have been triggered by extra day in the leap year, according to Microsoft. The...
Mar 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Women and young adults are outpacing other demographics in unfriending on Facebook, as social networkers get more savvy in managing their reputation online, according to new research. The study, from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, indicates that two...
Mar 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
A hand-held computer called the Raspberry Pi has gone on sale in the UK for just £22 this week, aimed at teaching children how to programme and code. After going on sale yesterday, the motherboard device sold out within hours. Massive demand for the computer has...
Mar 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has launched a public trial of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, which will run on tablets as well as PCs. Windows 8 features blocks or ’tiles’ that can be moved around the screen or tapped to go straight into an application, mirroring the...
Mar 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Whether or not you have a smartphone is closely related to both how old you are and how much money you make, according to a Nielsen survey in January of more than 20,000 mobile consumers. While overall smartphone penetration stood at 48 percent in January, those in...
Mar 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Social marketing technology company Buddy Media has bought Brighter Option, whose social ad management solution helps create, manage and measure Facebook advertising campaigns. In addition, Buddy Media announced a deal with 24/7 Real Media, the marketing technology...
Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
LG’s new minute-long “smart thief caught on cam” guerrilla-style ad for its slim televisions has already amassed 4.5m views since its launch on YouTube back in December. Click below to see why it’s our video viral of the week… LG’s ad promotes the new OLED...
Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Twitter has partnered with data firm Datasift to unlock the vast archive of user tweets made since 2010, allowing firms to access them for market research purposes. Firms can search tweets back to January 2010 in order to plan marketing campaigns, target influential...
Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Facebook has outlined plans to team up with mobile operators on payments, offering to give them back part of the revenue and influence they have lost to Apple and Google in recent years. Speaking for the first time at Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry’s...
Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Born sometime between the launch of the VCR and the commercialisation of the Internet, Americans 18-34 are redefining media consumption with their unique embrace of all things digital, according to new research. According to Nielsen and NM Incite’s U.S. Digital...
Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Currys, PC World and Dixons owner DSG is to launch a new streaming movie service online. Called Knowhow Movies, the service offers both downloads and streaming and is due to launch sometime in “early 2012”. “It’s almost time to get the popcorn ready, dim the lights...
Feb 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
Research in Motion have had a turbulent year, as its Blackberry mobile range has lost market share to rivals such as Apple, Samsung and HTC. Can the company regain the heights of its former success, in the face of stiff competition from Apple and Android? Alec...
Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google has offered prizes, totalling $1 million, to those who successfully hack the Google Chrome browser, as the internet giant turns to hackers to find weaknesses in its browser to bolster its security. The prizes will be offered at a US-based hacking contenthe...
Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Groupon is extending its mobile footprint internationally with product rollouts in more than 30 countries and strategic relationships with a number of industry partners, including a location-based marketing deal with Nokia. The company is expanding its current...
Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Johnston Press is set to launch an online property platform on Thursday with UK property website Zoopla. The partnership will bring together Zoopla’s online property expertise with the sites of the publisher’s regional network of newspaper titles. Users of the new...
Feb 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
The Welsh government has said will not object to a bid for the right to use the ‘.wales’ and ‘.cymru’ domain names. The move will give people and buisnesses in wales the chance to use Wales and Cymru in their internet address names. It follows...
Feb 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Everything Everywhere, the mobile broadband joint venture from Orange and T-Mobile, has launched a nationwide HSPA+ (3.5G) network, claiming it will provide 50 percent fasterdata speeds for customers. The nationwide roll out of HSPA+ 21, or 3.5G, has already reached...
Feb 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Affilate network LinkShare has revealed a new brand logo and strategic approach under the Rakuten group, which will see the company begin to adopt a more aggressive push into global markets. The move reflects the strategy of LinkShare’s parent company, Rakuten, to...
Feb 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Google has filed an application to bring its video service to residents of Kansas City, offering live TV and on-demand and online access to TV channels via a super fast broadband connection. Google Fiber, a subsidiary of Google, has filed applications in Missouri and...
Feb 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
Online payments provider PayPal said it would create 1,000 new jobs in Dundalk, County Louth in Ireland. The company, a subsidiary of California-based digital auction giant eBay, already employs 1,500 people at its European headquarters in Blanchardstown in Dublin....
