Technology:

40 years ago today the first mobile phone call was made on April the 3rd 1973. The first call was made by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola who called a rival colleague at another telecoms company to tell him that he  was speaking from “a real cellular telephone”. To make the call, he [...]

Google has presented a new feature available on its browser, Chrome that turns any web page into a 3D maze users can explore by using their smartphone as a controller. This is a first step towards mobile device and desktop interconnectivity via the web. A neat concept that is personalised and works effectively. The game [...]

Google and Apple are racing in two different directions to define the future of mobile connected devices. On the one hand (excuse the pun) Apple are developing a wrist watch that includes many of the features of the iPhone with voice activated functions and a touch screen. Google have a different perspective with Project Glass, [...]

There are now reportedly over 2.4bn Internet users worldwide, the impact of which has changed the world of politics, art, media, commerce and social interaction. The infographic below presented by BestCommunicationsDegrees.com gives a series of stats that reflect the consequences of the interconnected age.

Since early February, YouTube have been testing a new revamped channel page with a focus on uniformity across devices. Yesterday they released it to the public for anyone to use on their channel. Users of Google Plus will feel a bit of deja vu as they have taken the same simple design ethos used on Google Plus. [...]

According to a report by SophosLabs, the US is responsible for more spam than any other country, clocking in a hefty 18.3 percent of total junk email sent worldwide. Researchers tracked the amount of spam sent over the course of last year from Dec 2012 until  Feb 2013. China took the second spot with 8.2%, [...]

Twitter’s internal search engine should be a dream come true to those who have been heralding “social search”, layer of personalised/ crowd sourced content over the top of search results, yet it still has a long way to go. Twitter’s search functionality has come a long way, allowing searches for hashtags, differentiating between search for [...]

According to a report by Morgan Stanley, search engine giant Google is set to pay as much as $1bn next year to remain the default search engine on Apple’s mobile operating system iOS.  In 2009 Google paid a paltry $82m for the privilege. In comparing this deal to other platforms, Google is set to pay the [...]

Twitter is currently the fastest growing social network, but The Global Web Index  reported earlier in the week that Google+ has actually overtaken Twitter as the 2nd most active Social Network in users.  The news brushes away the common misconception that Google+ is  inhabited by ghost dwellers, and should reinforce the fact that if you’re not on it – then [...]

Search Trend Thursday returns for a fourth week, and we’ve decided to pit our loving home of London against its American friend, New York. It’s not hard to see from the screenshot below that London leads the web search interest contest, and has done the majority of the time between 2004 and 2013. Gambians also [...]