Today's Google doodle is one of the best we've seen in a while. It's a video celebration of graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass on what would have been his 93rd Birthday.Bass's 40 year career saw him work with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese and make some of film's most famous title sequences. Among those sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man ...

Adobe Creative Suite is no longer a product. It's a service. What was once just an option, will become the only way to access the Adobe Creative Suite family of applications come 17 June. Creative Suite (CS) will officially be replaced by Adobe Creative Cloud (CC), a subscription-based service with all the bells and whistles that come with the cloud.Announced at Adobe's MAX conference, and received with mixed reactions across social media platforms, the move marks Adobe's official shift from ...

Twitter breaks news and readers flock to the social network for the latest in world events, so it stands to reason that the company will capitalise on that. It's looking for a head of news and journalism.According to the job posting, the company "is playing an integral role in the evolution of the news industry — both as a tool for reporters and newsrooms and as a way for consumers to find news in real-time. Twitter has already changed ...

Leave it to the Kenyans to figure out a way to connect to the internet no matter where you are and without electricity. Currently attempting to raise a whooping US$125 000 on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, BRCK is an Ushahidi initiative that hopes to solve internet connectivity issues in remote areas.The device is "the easiest, most reliable way to connect to the internet, anywhere in the world, even when you don’t have electricity," says open source information and mapping company Ushahidi. ...

The people of India are watching double the number of online videos they were two years ago.New research from comScore suggests that the BRIC giant is consuming 3.7-billion videos per month, up from 1.86-billion in 2011.This dramatic growth, says comScore, is largely down to a sizeable increase in the number of online video viewers, in addition to increasing consumption per viewer. The total online video audience in India has grown 74% to 54-million viewers, with the average viewer ...

I am sitting here looking at a photo of my family taken on a recent vacation: everything looks great.We're a happy family. Source: Jon SumroyOf course the camera always lies! The moments leading up to this idyllic snap were the usual chaos … “stop fighting; sit still; can you all look at the camera at the same time; smile please… look happy; stop tapping; take another one just in case”. But the result is fine; my wife and I ...

An idea is not innovation. There exists an expansive divide between the idea and the execution of a project, between the concept and the reality. The purpose of leadership in any organisation is to shorten that gap as far and as soon as possible. An idea is only as good as how well an organisation brings it to life, and as mundane as it may sound to the creatives, there should be certain processes and tools to enable the award-winning ...

There is little doubt when it comes to who the leading Android handset manufacturer in the world is, considering Samsung has obliterated all competition since the inception of its Galaxy S II. The Galaxy range has sold tens of millions of devices and I’m sure you know more than a few people who use one of them. The devices are obviously aimed at the mass market, and as such Samsung has taken some steps to keep its latest flagship, the ...

I’m a big fan of social calls-to-action. Previously, I’ve found evidence that they work on Facebook and Twitter. So I wanted to expand my research and see if I could find more words and phrases that were good at spurring people to social action.Using a huge data set of more than 2.7-million tweets provided to me by the awesome folks at Buffer, I analysed the use of calls-to-action (like “please retweet”) and their relationship to retweets. To control for number ...

Microsoft has sold more than 100-million installs for Windows 8 since it became generally available and claims to have over 250-million users on its cloud-based storage service SkyDrive.In an official blog post, the Redmond-based giant's chief marketing officer and chief financial officer Tami Reller confirmed that the OS had reached the 100-million mark, up from 60-million licenses sold by January.Those 40-million extra licenses, she explains, come largely from the PC market, with the "vast majority" shipping on new ...