Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
The number of network-connected devices will outnumber people 2 in three years time, while a million minutes of Internet video to be transmitted per second, according to a new report. Communication network Cisco predicts that the number of network-connected devices...
Jun 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
A group of hackers known as Anonymous has taken responsibility for disabling a Turkish government website in a protest against recently introduced Internet filters that many consider to be censorship. The online anarchist group has threatened to attack Turkish...
Jun 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Google is reportedly on the verge of buying online advertising technology company AdMeld. for about $400m, according to media reports. The New York Times cites ‘three people briefed on the negotiations that Google is willing to pay $400m for US-based...
Jun 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
While brands have followed swiftly to raise their profile with social media savvy consumers for e-commerce success, it appears that when it comes to advertising on social media, consumers may not be on the same page, according to new research. The study, from Mintel,...
Jun 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
New research from eDigitalResearch and Portaltech shows that almost half of Smartphone users (48.2%) have now shopped online and on their mobile, increasing by a dramatic 13% in just nine months. The study, which looked into the multichannel browsing and shopping...
Jun 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that global NFC mobile contactless payment transactions will reach nearly $50 billion worldwide by 2014. Following on from the Orange Mobile Payments service launch in the UK, 2011 and 2012 are expected to be banner years...
Jun 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
US online advertising revenues were $26 billion in 2010, up from $22.7 billion in 2009. (Billions of USD).
Jun 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Apple has launched its Newsstand service, allowing users to set up online subscriptions to magazines and newspapers. Set to launch later this year, the app was unveiled this week at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. Under its current subscription model products...
Jun 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
New Yahoo! mail research on how we keep in touch says social networks have changed Britain into ‘Generation 140′. Over 10% of Britons surveyed have said or heard ‘I love you’ for the first time over a social network. Nearly 20% check their social networks...
Jun 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
In the build up to World IPv6 day approaching on June 8th, high profile Internet companies are speaking out about of the importance of the new addressing standard to the future of the web. With IPv4 addresses beginning to run out globally and a huge increase in...
Jun 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook has started rolling out a facial recognition feature worldwide, with a tool called ‘Tag Suggestions’, sparking controversy for not informing users of the change. Late last year, Facebook started rolling a facial recognition feature across the US. Now, the...
Jun 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Apple has launched iCloud, its new cloud-based platform designed to provide a selection of instantly pushed services across all manner of Apple products. The move once again puts Apple in competition with Amazon and Google, who have each launched their own cloud-based...
Jun 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
User-generated content in the form of positive reviews on sites like Trip Advisor, is increasingly becoming the make or break factor when it comes to online travel booking, with more than one quarter of consumers identifying it as the most important factor, according...
Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Facebook has lost further ground to YouTube and Twitter in the UK, with the micro-blogging site boosted by the ongoing super injunction row, according to new data. Experian Hitwise’s latest Search Engine and Social Analysis shows that Google and Yahoo! both lost...
Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Mobile users in Canada are big on apps, and a quarter are using social networks. These are among the latest findings from ComScore’s new measurement tool for mobile that launches in Canada as the digital measuring giants square up for battle. Hot on the heals of the...
Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Italy has significantly lowed “digital divide” over the past year and a half, – the number of citizens not connected to the broadband network has fallen from 7.8 million to 5 million. According to the Minister of Economic Development, Paolo Romani, in addition, the...
Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Twenty years ago direct marketing focussed on postal mail and print adverts. As direct response TV grew, another channel was added within the framework of the discipline. The direct marketing skillset grew into a core discipline in digital marketing, and as new laws...
Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
The French government is set to ban the use of the words ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ on television or radio programs, after a crackdown on using brand names on news programmes. According to a report in the Daily Mail, President Nicolas...
Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
An official Beijing newspaper has warned Google that it could face ‘serious consequences’ after it accused China of hacking into its Gmail accounts. The People’s Daily, the leading newspaper of China’s ruling Communist Party, termed Google as a...
Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Expedia, Priceline and Groupe SNCF were the most visited online travel properties in Europe according to new data from comScore. In April 2011, the number of European visitors to the Travel category grew 11 percent in the past year. Travel properties, which include...
