With the recent increase in the use of social media, and the increase in mobile phone technology since the last election, the question has been asked many time – was the recent general election an Internet election? For me, the answer has to be an overwhelming no. Although there was great fervor around the use [...]
Well, who would have though it? Google has recently changed the structure of its search results by including its search options in a bar on the left hand side of the screen. This has annoyed many people (see how many results you get by searching for “remove Google sidebar”!) and is even more annoying for [...]
The austere and antiquated approach by the organisers of the US Masters Golf tournament means that most viewers cannot watch any coverage of the event until well into the day’s play. The restriction has been annoying me immensely for many years, with my excitement for one of the greatest tournaments in the world (most American’s [...]
With Gordon Brown finally letting slip the worst kept secret of the year by announcing that the general election will be on the 6th May this year, it gave rise to a host of new plans to allow the leaders of the main three parties to go head-to-head. Following a distinctly average display by the [...]
As it was announced last week that Scottish Labour candidate Stuart MacLennan has been sacked for his abusive Twitter comments about politicians and voters, I could only think that there are still plenty of people who still don’t understand the reach of social media. Although many may question the intelligence of a man who tweets [...]
Facebook are currently in discussions with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) agency to discuss the possibility of introducing a panic button on all pages within the social networking site. The proposed button will allow children, who may be feeling threatened by or suspicious anything on their own Facebook page. The button will link [...]
A recent report has shown that UK online advertising spending has bucked the general industry downward trend by continuing to increase throughout 2009. Surpassing £3.5 Billion for the first time, online advertising has not only survived the global cooldown on spending, but managed to increase over that time. To put this rise in perspective, in [...]
Researchers have warned that the addiction that young people have with technology is having a disruptive effect on their learning. The effects of modern gadgets this were seen by pupils with poor spelling, poor levels of concentration, encouraged plagiarism and disrupted lessons. Out of 267 pupils surveyed aged 11 to 18, the report [...]
UK Psychologists have found that there is a strong link between depression and heavy use of the internet. According to a study in the journal Psychopathology, 1.2% of people who were surveyed were found to be internet addicts and were also suffering from depression. The team from Leeds university however couldn’t say for [...]
Dick Durbin, a senator from the United States of America has approached 30 technology companies for information in advance of a hearing he has set up on Human Rights practices in China. This comes as Google makes an announcement to stop censoring search results in China as it discovered that their systems had [...]
