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Why ask the Doctor, when you can just ask your phone?

August 18, 2010 - 6:55 am

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Got the sniffles? Feeling under the weather? Never fear, there’s a new Doctor in the house.
With more smartphones in use, it’s hardly surprising that people are turning to mobile applications for actionable health-related information.
Seventy eight per cent of Stateside consumers have expressed an interest in using their their phones to diagnose and find cures for [...]

FIFA World Cup and the big web switch off

June 23, 2010 - 12:47 pm

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We are officially a nation of work shy football fanatic!
New findings reveal that traffic figures for English websites are dropping by up to 20 percent during the countries fixtures in the FIFA World Cup tournament.
AOL Advertising’s ADTECH analysed the delivery performance of its adservers on selected English websites during the first two games.
It goes to [...]

Your chance to shape the future of the entertainment industry

June 2, 2010 - 3:48 pm

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Fancy the idea of your thoughts and opinions being taken seriously by an entertainment giant and shaping the future of the business? Oh, and getting paid for it too?
We are looking for people to take part in a project for a global entertainment market leader that will do just that.
We’ll be asking you about your [...]

Is there a smartphone iPad gap? Dell thinks so.

May 25, 2010 - 2:14 pm

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Smartphone too small? iPad too big? Well, what about a device that’s just right for Goldilocks and the tech fans?
Dell thinks it has found a gap in the market and intends to plug it with the Dell Streak and its 5-inch touch screen.
It’s a direct challenge to the iPad with its positioning, specifically hoping to [...]

YouTube now clocking up more than 2 billion views a day

May 17, 2010 - 8:58 am

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How time flies. It seems hard to believe that just five years ago this month YouTube launched the beta version of its site to the world.
The mission was simple: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world.
Whether you were an aspiring filmmaker, a politician, a proud parent, or [...]

Museum looking after the past, but looking to the future with app

May 11, 2010 - 2:10 pm

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Museums are generally more known for looking to the past than the future so the launch of a new app from the Museum of London has caught our eye.
Apps for museums in themselves are nothing new. The  British Museum has a guide and audio app available for download. Not only that. It was shortlisted for [...]

Protect and survive? Now it’s text and survive.

April 21, 2010 - 3:09 pm

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The phrase ‘Protect and Survive’ that fronted the public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s is being given a new spin.
Mobile developments now mean the rallying call is ‘Text and Survive’ on the back of a new MobileAlert system being introduced in Israel.
It will [...]

Google makes its first acquisition in the UK

April 12, 2010 - 1:31 pm

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Google has made its first acquisition in the UK, and it’s not the kind of heavy -hitter you might expect the giant to snap up.
Visual search company, Plink, is just a two-man start-up, based out of Oxford. It’s founders Mark Cummins and James Philbin are now both joining Google to work on Google Goggles.
Publically launched [...]

Absolut caught out by ‘I’m Here’ online film fans

April 9, 2010 - 2:10 pm

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Vodka company Absolut had an idea. That brainwave may have come in the sauna (with the company being Swedish). Or perhaps during a roll in the snow.
But it was a very good idea. The idea was to work with acclaimed film director, Spike Jonze, and the result was a 30-minute robot love story film entitled, [...]

Goodbye to the Facebook “fan.” Hello to the “like.”

April 1, 2010 - 9:42 am

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Facebook is replacing its “fan” buttons with “like” buttons on ads that direct users to big brands’ “fan pages” in a bid to further monetise the social networking site.
That’s according to new internal information acquired by All Things Digital.
Brand ‘fan pages’ are nothing new, of course but the problem for Facebook is they can be [...]