I noticed something over the weekend. I can’t recall the last time I visited Facebook.com on my laptop. Even though I sit at a desk, like hundreds of millions of drones every workday -- well, most of it, anyway -- my Facebook experience is primarily in its iPhone app (ditto for Twitter, in case you were wondering).The problem for Facebook is not so much how well it ‘monetizes mobile’... That’s Wall Street’s problem (and, by all accounts, it's doing significantly ...

First off, I’m not talking about the large scent hound originally bred for hunting deer and wild boar. You know, the four-legged furry thing, slightly gormless looking, slow, methodical, who will track you down should you be a villain, drug peddler or some such other low life. No, I’m talking about Bloodhound SSC: long, pointy at one end, massively powerful and bred specifically for supersonic speeds. Oh, and it’s a car, a Supersonic Car.Read more on Motorburn.

Need for Speed Rivals is the latest title to be spawned from the Need for Speed family and the first one born from the hands of new Swedish developers, Ghost Games. It was built on the new Frostbite 3 engine, the same one used for the recently released Battlefield 4. How does it fare?First ImpressionsAs you start it up it you’re forced to watch a lengthy and unskippable two-minute intro video. The voice in this intro seems like it's ...

Twitter frequently works as a kind of alarm bell for journalists. Many reporters, for example, follow hashtags like #disaster or #breaking, and receive tweets about an earthquake, a plane crash or riots in a certain city. These tweets mean it can be easier for them to be on a story as it breaks.Additionally, most newspapers and media outlets are already crowdsourcing, that is, using content from the public. That for example is what's happening when they ask the public to ...

Mahatma Ghandi, Winston Churchill, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg all have at least one thing in common: they've all been named TIME Magazine's Person of the Year. The influential magazine's annual special profiles a person, group, idea or object that "for better or for worse, ...has done the most to influence the events of the year." And this year, you'll be able to cast your vote using Twitter.In an official blog post, Twitter's Andrew Fitzgerald explains that while the ...

If you're the kind of person who regularly gets gadgets come Christmas time, then you might be expecting Santa to drop a smartwatch in your stocking. After all, there's a ton of them out there and even the mainstream players are getting involved, with Samsung claiming to have sold over 800 000 of its Galaxy Gear devices.If technology research company Gartner is to be believed however, then you're still more likely to get a tablet or fitness tracking band ...

Companies are confronted with big problems every day. An agrarian society looking for new business models to compete more effectively, a bank needing new growth sources to combat the effects of a declining market, a courier firm pressured to transport with zero defect to protect sensitive cargo, a technology company looking to be first to market –- these are by no means outlandish dilemmas.But solving them, even when the correct strategy is apparent (as in these examples), often requires ...

This is brilliant and possibly one of the best social media driven campaigns I have seen from a retailer. In the weeks following "selfie" beating out twerking as the word of year, fashion retailer Urban Hilton Weiner, decided to hop on that bandwagon with its "Pay towards your purchase with a selfie" campaign.The question behind the campaign was simple: how much do you think your selfie is worth? How much indeed? In a society when fashion shopping is more ...

In the spirit of giving, Gearburn and Samsung have five GALAXY Musics to give away. The GALAXY Music is a nippy Android smartphone with a star hardware feature, namely built-in stereo speakers. We reviewed it and thought that it was a friendly little phone but above all, the GALAXY Music is an affordable Android phone. But instead of buying one, why not win a GALAXY Music instead? Follow the rules below to stand a chance of winning one of five ...

You've probably seen the Polaroidesque printing options. Perhaps the coasters and the magnets. Maybe even the pillows, smartphone cases and stickers. But have you ever thought about printing your Instagrams on to food?Well, it's possible: a new site launching today, called Boomf, allows you to transfer your filtered snapshots on to marshmallows. Yes, edible, fluffy vanilla marshmallows -- the kind you can plop into hot chocolate or skewer on a stick and slowly roast. And damn, they look good.The ...