It's that time of year once again. Those in the online sector are gearing up for late nights at the office and planning for big returns from the increased growth in holiday ecommerce.The end-of-year holiday period certainly helps companies generate a lot of buzz and many serious discussions revolve around holiday campaign planning and how to best market seasonal deals to the general public.Email marketing is becoming increasingly vital to the holiday success of any business. Just days after Halloween, ...

We’ve waited a long time for Battlefield 3 and what DICE has delivered is a game of two halves: A multiplayer title with endless appeal and a single-player game so dire that it laughs in the face of modern gameplay. I'll be your host for this review -- welcome to the Battlefield.Single player woes From the moment you step out of your US Army Jeep, the graphics amaze. Dust clouds billow, and buildings creak with the scars of battle, all beautifully ...

There are a number of very good reasons you should be developing for mobile. It's an incredibly fast-growing medium. In fact, mobile web has already caught up to desktop usage. For many people, mobile is the sole means of accessing the web. Mobile devices are "always on" and incredibly personal. The platform gives you the opportunity to put out a low cost, high-volume product and, importantly, it rewards you for being creative.That's all well and good, but what kind ...

Mobile data traffic will grow 10-fold between 2011 and 2016, and mobile broadband subscriptions are expected to reach almost 5-billion in 2016, mainly driven by video, according to a report by mobile communications giant Ericsson.The report is based on measurements the company recorded over several years in live networks covering all regions of the world.The key findings of the report state:Mobile broadband subscriptions grew by 60 percent in one year and are expected to grow from 900-million ...

Apple's voice-activated assistant Siri is a direct threat to Google’s search engine. That’s according to the internet giant's chairman Eric Schmidt."Apple has launched an entirely new approach to search technology with Siri, its voice-activated search and task-completion service built into the iPhone 4S," Schmidt acknowledged in a written response to the Senate antitrust subcommittee.He also pointed out a number of other challengers to Google's internet dominance, including Facebook, Twitter and traditional search competitors like Yahoo! and Microsoft Bing."Social networking ...

Stirring controversy is nothing new to the world of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Echoing the horrors of the infamous “No Russian” level from Modern Warfare 2, the highly anticipated Modern Warfare 3 features a scene which will most likely stir emotion, fill forums and incite Fox News style exclamations across the world.A leaked video (which has now been pulled “due to a copyright claim by Activision Games”) depicts a brutal act of violence which hopes to top the ...

Specifications and pricing for the new Motorola Xoom 2 have been released. GBP£379.99 (US$608) is the official price of Motorola’s Xoom 2, the successor to the well received Xoom. The price comes a mere day after the official launch of the Xoom 2. The slimmer, faster and easier to use Xoom 2 mirrors the ethos of the iPad 2, which also promised its fans a "faster, thinner, lighter" product.Pricing the device below GBP£400 (US$640) means Motorola has managed to smash through ...

A Memeburn story has won the Social Media category at the Vodacom Journalist of the Year 2011 awards.The story, Twitter breaks news, but will it break journalism? written by Memeburn contributor Herman Manson, focuses on the impact, both negative and positive, that Twitter has as a reporting tool. The article's position can effectively be summed up in its lead sentence:"Twitter's value to breaking news quickly and efficiently is beyond doubt, but the accuracy of the news being ...

Social media has changed the nature of advertising. Companies target consumers through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Going viral used to be an organic process, now it's part of a product's campaign goals from the start.Every now and then, though, an advert will completely surpass the expectations of the people behind it. The place where most of the videos are viewed, shared, commented on and viewed again is YouTube.With this in mind, Memebeurn decided to have a look at ...

Back in the early 1800s a group of disgruntled artisans based around Nottingham, in the UK, began a movement that opposed the new technology that was being introduced into England as the industrial revolution gained steam. The Luddites, as they were called, felt that the introduction of all of this new-fangled technology was ultimately going to increase productivity but that the requirement for human labour would diminish.The rich would get richer, through their use of machines, and the poor would ...