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If you've had broadband piping into your home, and the various devices within it, for a while now, you might have forgotten what it was like to have your phone on a mobile network only.Imagine what it would be like if you tried to use as much data as you do now in that scenario. Scary right. That's why tech research company Gartner has come to the same conclusion as many of us: a network that shares a robust, ...
So you thought Glass was a crazy ambition? Google has something else up its sleeve: it's trying to replicate a gadget previously only glimpsed by sci fi fans. But while the tech giant has its eye on the future, Facebook is focusing on your friends and your phone, if its recent Home launch is any indication. Your friends are also important to TV networks, who want as many viewers as possible so they can bundle in ads and programming and ...
Companies around the world are still undergoing digital transition. Some believe they are there already whilst others still have their heads buried in the sand. Digital is a loose term and can encompass many things, so for the purpose of this article, I am talking specifically about the use of digital as an organisation’s “window to the world”. I have listed 5 things that may indicate that your organisation has made the digital transition.
1. Digitally educated employeesYou generally find ...
North Korea’s missile belligerence has been the target of an awful lot of humour, but the folks at Taiwan’s Next Media Animation have taken things a step farther and gone interactive with Best Korea Smackdown, a flash game that tasks players with shooting down North Korean nukes as supreme leader Kim Jong-un attempts to ride them into their targets.The game is extremely simple, and it’s really more of a gimmick than it is a game. Gameplay involves pointing the mouse ...
Imagine you're looking for a job. Which social network would you hit first? LinkedIn's the obvious choice... but perhaps you should give Twitter a chance. It's apparently becoming the next social platform for targeted job ads and recruiting. Yes, it seems strange -- this is after all, the service you probably use to talk about TV shows, the latest sci-fi movies and share Instagrammed photos of your coffee. But at least Twitter hasn't gathered the same level of concern as ...
Whether it’s a fad or a threat, the much hyped e-currency Bitcoin is making differences in people's pockets and headlines across the globe. It started in 2009 when a hacker, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, launched a form of currency that escaped the reaches of the global financial crises. It’s currently experiencing a boom that some are calling a bubble and others a perfect storm. What is the hype about, and why is it important?This currency is created through a ...
What do you get if you combine Quickmeme, confession bear and Reddit? Um, that would be a supposed murder confession. A Reddit user recently headed across to the advice animals subreddit and posted an image of confession bear made using the meme-generating tool, to claim that he killed his sister's boyfriend. Really.The post, titled 'Finally have the guts to say it', caused an uproar on the site, as users debated if it was just an odd joke or a serious ...
Imagine if you'd helped start one of the most successful social networks on the planet. You'd probably expect people to know who you are, right? Not if you're Jason Goldman. Twitter's 'secret' early employee was more focused on making sure Twitter survived than in building his own fame. Techie glory wasn't a problem for Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, but, like Goldman, they also had to worry about how their social network was going to make money. It's a path ...
Phew. It's finally April 2, and we can stop being so automatically distrustful of any suspiciously timed new products launched by the companies inhabiting the tech sphere. This year's crop of April Fools jokes included everything from the International Space Station to Twitter's latest means of generating revenue to Nokia's attempt to, um, enter the home appliance market.TwttrIf you go all the way back to co-founder Jack Dorsey's first tweet back in 2006, you'll notice he referred to his fledgling ...
This week's instalment of our top tech stories series involves everything from the changing music industry to a man who sold shares in himself. Yes, really. Along the way we also touch on the phone-fuelled bonfires that made Samsung what it is today, the questionable usage of hashtags, the early days of Google Reader and the messaging apps that have industry leaders worried.The music industry has irreversibly changed — the labels have notiTunes. Spotify. Pandora. Music no longer involves ...
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