Watch or glasses – which is the future?
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…
Google+ Pages get updated
The update is a spring clean for Google+ Pages, ensuring that individuals, companies and brands get the best experience and keep engaged and entertained by the content that gets posted. Larger Cover Photos The cover photo of your Google+ Page now requires higher resolution image…
How the Internet has changed the world
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.
US responsible for 18% of all spam
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…
Quote of the Day – No man is an Island
“We are through and through social animals. Even the act of social rebellion, rejection of society, is a thoroughly social act articulated through social means and norms such as language and evaluations of what is worthwhile and what is not. This could be expressed by…
Tug at Digital Shoreditch Festival 2013
Following Google’s Search plus Your World update, natural search and social media have continued to integrate. Facebook and Twitter both appear in search listings and run internal search engines that pull up results from their networks and receive more searches than ever before – the…
Harlem reacts to Harlem Shake
The Internet meme “Harlem Shake” has achieved global virality over the last few weeks, as offices, schools, universities, friends and even someone’s grandma recorded themselves losing it to Baauer’s punchy dubstep number. Midway through the furore, film producer Chris McGuire took a moment to actually go down to Harlem…
Twitter social search engine
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…
Google to pay Apple $1bn to remain default search engine on iOS
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…
Twitter security crisis
250,000 Twitter accounts saw their password security compromised after the social network was successfully hacked. Twitter’s information security director Bob Lord said about 250,000 users’ passwords had been stolen, as well as usernames, emails and other data. The announcement shows the increasing problems of data…
