I was an Android user for years and still have several Android devices. But last October I bought an iPhone 4S and I'm glad I did. I remember the exact date I bought it, because it was the last time Apple updated the iPhone. Unlike Android devices, there is only...
Eric Yaverbaum | Posted 24 May 2012 | Technology
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On Friday, May 18, Facebook went public. Regardless of when you are reading this post, I would wager that discussion about the implications of the IPO still dominates the news about social media, with an emphasis on what happened, why it happened, and the implications for...
Alfie Evers | Posted 25 May 2012 | UK Comedy
It's hard to imagine a time without Facebook, but believe me, it existed - I was there. It was a time when everyone strived to have smaller mobile phones and Saddam Hussein was still hiding in a bunker clutching a bag of Funsize Mars Bars and a copy of Nuts...
Tim Goodchild | Posted 24 May 2012 | UK Tech
DiRT Showdown comes from the newly created Codemasters Racing Studio. The publisher now has some of the best selling racing games on the market, notably the BAFTA award-winning F1 2011. The DiRT games legacy started with late Colin McRae series of rally games - great realistic rally simulations. It progressed...
Preetam Kaushik | Posted 24 May 2012 | UK Tech
Now that the huge hype created over the Facebook IPO has given way to more practical and analytical thinking, it is time to take a closer look at the tech IPO scenario. To begin with, one needs to assess whether ventures like Facebook and Groupon who have already treaded the...
Sheila Flavell | Posted 23 May 2012 | UK Tech
The 2012 CIO Survey published last week by marketing research company Harvey Nash PLC, has found that seven out of 10 technology leaders believe they are missing vital skills as a result of low representation of women in their teams.
Whilst many companies are beginning to understand that gender...
Brad Spirrison | Posted 23 May 2012 | Technology
When Johnny Carson stepped down from hosting The Tonight Show 20 years ago this week, Apple was pushing a rudimentary tablet computer called the Messagepad, and analog televisions were the primary delivery system for electronic media, news and entertainment.
Back then, most of us lived on a handful...
Howard Kingston | Posted 24 May 2012 | UK Tech
Have you ever wished you had access to experienced startup advisors that could help you with what you're trying to achieve?
We've all been there - working on a project of some description - at some point one of the inevitable questions pop into our heads:
- Am I...
Dominique Major | Posted 24 May 2012 | Mydaily
With press days for this coming season drawing to close it has been interesting to see the effects that social media developments have had on the fashion industry. Acting like an expose on what is going on behind the scenes, social media sites, especially Twitter and Instagram, have allowed everyone...
Angela Scanlon | Posted 23 May 2012 | Mydaily
Last night I was a the launch of Covetique... A new online space for buying and selling designer gear. Think of it as Net-A-Porter for the sensible among us. To be fair, buying a bag for over a thousand whatever is considered pretty excessive in these current times...
Dr. James Lane | Posted 23 May 2012 | UK Tech
Paul Woodward is the primary school head teacher that hit the headlines recently for speaking out against parents who allow their children to sign up to Facebook despite being underage. He estimates that at least 60% of the 270-plus children at his school in the Forest of Dean have access...
James Poyner | Posted 23 May 2012 | UK Tech
We often hear about the Technological Singularity: The moment when machine intelligence becomes better than human intelligence and the biological transcends into the digital world - ideas popularised by authors such as Vernor Vinge and Charles Stross. But a new type of socio-cultural Singularity has been waiting in the wings...
Paul Broome | Posted 21 May 2012 | UK Tech
I was giving a presentation recently when I asked "What's the most digitally advanced country in the world?" The answers I got ranged from Japan to Sweden to the US. Everyone looked pretty surprised when I said Kenya.
And yet while the West has been trying to...
Mark Hillary | Posted 21 May 2012 | UK Tech
All eyes on Friday were on the Facebook IPO with analysts and investors still undecided about whether it makes sense to value a company with revenue of under $4bn at $104bn.
And one of the key questions is how Facebook will increase the amount of revenue they earn...
Andrew Kemshall | Posted 21 May 2012 | UK Tech
It might seem hard to believe but the mobile phone was first introduced to the UK in 1985. Just 27 years later and the device that we now love is hardly recognisable to those first Motorola handsets. And it's not just the size and battery life that's changed. Let's face...
Anthony Goldbloom | Posted 21 May 2012 | UK Tech
In the same week that Google Analytics used Tweets to predict that London Mayoral election incumbent Boris Johnson was holding a four-point lead over long time Labour rival Ken Livingston, IBM also rolled out a law enforcement analytics package aimed at helping to predict and ultimately prevent criminal and terrorist...
Peter Bentley | Posted 18 May 2012 | Science
There's nothing like a bit of brain control to make people excited. The recent letter in Nature describing the use of a chip implanted into the brain of a tetraplegic patient was a clear breakthrough. Here was a woman who had lost control of her limbs 15 years...
Henryk Frystacki, Ph.D | Posted 18 May 2012 | UK Tech
String physicists assume that energetic pieces of threads are the keys to quantum gravity and to everything else of our perceived reality throughout the universe. The basic elements of this theory are "strings" or membranes, i.e. subatomic one-dimensional energy threads and built areas. The vibrations of these strings generate everything...
Steve D. Shaw | Posted 18 May 2012 | UK Tech
Don't sweat the small stuff. It's a well-known phrase I admit to using from time to time. Usually in a domestic context where it's admittedly not always exactly welcome.
I wasn't too sure where the phrase came from originally, but, in a bid to banish my ignorance, a few seconds...
Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 18 May 2012 | UK Tech
The corporate world is emerging from several weeks of boardroom turbulence dubbed the 'Shareholder Spring.'
In annual meeting after annual meeting around the world, boards have been taken to task by investors and other stakeholders on a wide range of issues: remuneration, board composition, competence,...
Larry Magid | Posted 24 May 2012 | Technology