OMG Twitter is seven-years-old today #HappyBirthdayTwitter
Twitter celebrates its seventh birthday today with an amazing 200 million users worldwide to help it do so. It has come a long way since the first tweet was sent in San Francisco, California, by...
View ArticleEU to monitor possible anticompetitive behaviour from Apple
Apple has been accused of possible anti-competitive behaviour by several telecoms operators, it has been revealed. The claims concern both: the demands Apple makes for marketing from operators and...
View ArticleAmazon buys the Goodreads social network for undisclosed sum
Goodreads, a site which was set up seven years ago to recommend books to its members, has been sold to Amazon for an undisclosed amount. Founder Otis Chandler watched his service grow to more than 16...
View ArticleTV dragon Peter Jones breathes new life into camera chain Jessops
Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones is bringing back camera specialist Jessops to the UK’s High Streets, two months after the troubled chain went into administration. Jones, who has appeared on the BBC show...
View ArticleAdvertisers angered as ads shown on Facebook pages about rape and violence
Angry advertisers have hit out after their ads were shown on Facebook group pages featuring rape and violence. Vodafone, Dove Cosmetics, the RSPB and audiobook site Audible are among those who have...
View ArticleUK regulator wants 0800 freephone calls to be free from mobile phones
Phone regulator Ofcom wants mobile phone operators to stop charging customers for calling Freephone 0800 numbers. The numbers, which are free from landlines, can incur charges of up to 40pence per...
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Spot the differences: An hour on the internet in the UK and the US
Imagine if you analyzed the behavior of 25 million internet users worldwide to build up a picture of how they spent their time online. Then if you were able to distil that worldwide usage into an hour...
View Article£750,000 fine for Talk Talk for making annoying silent calls to customers
Telecoms operator TalkTalk has been fined £750,000 by regulator Ofcom for making abandoned and silent calls to potential customers. More than 9,000 of these nuisance calls were made via two call...
View ArticleGoogle and Microsoft see profits climb amid increased demand for smartphones...
Rising worldwide demand for smartphones and tablets had led to big boosts in profits for both Google and Microsoft. Google, the world’s number one search engine, has had to adapt to people making...
View ArticleApple reports fall in profits for first time in a decade
Tech giant Apple has seen its profits fall for the first time in a decade, however the company reported that sales of its iPhones and iPads remain strong. It announced that its profits for the three...
View ArticleSocial Video platform Spreecast launches mobile streaming for iOS and Android
Social video platform Spreecast has launched an iPhone app and now offers live streaming via mobile web. With Spreecast users can broadcast live streaming video together, interact with each other and...
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Want a coffee with Apple’s Tim Cook?…the price is now $580,000 and climbing
I was half joking when I speculated yesterday that a cup of coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook could reach $1,000,000 at auction. Well 24 hours on, and the chance to spend an hour over coffee with Mr Cook...
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News feature: ADzero bamboo smartphone project branches into Sion V1SION...
The ADzero bamboo smartphone project has been put on indefinite hold, its co-founder Jerry Lao has revealed. Lao had been working on the project alongside British product designer Kieron-Scott but the...
View ArticleIs $600,000 the most anyone would pay for coffee with Tim Cook?
It looks as though, for now at least, $600,000 is about as much as anyone is prepared to pay for a coffee break with Apple’s Tim Cook. The chance to meet the CEO in his office for an hour is the prize...
View ArticleNearly 2,000 movies will disappear from Netflix as contracts expire
Streaming movie service Netflix has lost the rights to show nearly 2,ooo films as rights deals with Warner Brothers, MGM and Universal come to an end. A total of 1,794 films have disappeared from their...
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Virgin Media offers Unlimited Everything mobile phone tariff from £26 a month
Virgin Media have today launched a worry free VIP mobile phone tariff where absolutely everything is unlimited from £26 a month. The company said it now offered the only tariff which offered unlimited...
View ArticleWorldwide tablet market grows 142 per cent year on year
The tablet market continues to show strong worldwide growth – surging by 142.4% year on year in the first quarter of 2013. Preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide...
View ArticleYouTube has overtaken traditional TV says Google’s Eric Schmidt
YouTube is more popular than traditional television and has overtaken the TV set as of the viewing platform of choice, it has been claimed. Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt made the claim when...
View ArticleGetting Your Business to Go PC-Free
Tablet PCs, lightweight, portable computers that convert from touch-screen tablets to monitors with a keyboard, are taking the business world by storm. Fortune 500 companies, including United Airlines,...
View ArticleSony reports being back in profit after five years in the red
Tokyo-based electronics giant Sony has reported making its first full year’s profit in the last five years of trading. The weakening of the yen and financial belt-tightening are two of the reasons...
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