Big online news stories at the moment all seem to be about getting hold of the gold at the end of the rainbow from new media web portals.
In terms of pure visitor numbers the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are undoubted giants of the internet but all are yet to successfully convert their popularity [...]

Google has launched its remarkable Street View service of British cities to a mixed reaction.
Supporters of the technology marvel at its cleverness and talk about how the service can revolutionise how people research cities to visit and houses to buy. Opponents argue it invades individual privacy and is a potential security hazard. And then there [...]

Thanks to the Internet we can all now post our opinions and observations on the world as they happen. Blogging has become a popular endeavour across the globe and it has even entered the business world as a legitimate new form of b2b and b2c communication.
The benefits of communicating in this way are numerous. Blogging [...]

Yes I know, rumours of the GDrive have been floating around the Internet for a couple of years now. However there have been a recent flurry of substantiations, and whether they have been leaked by careless developers or is a touch of guerrilla marketing the evidence is building up.
Rumors began back in 2006 when a [...]

Today the Internet is awash with news, article, links and blogs about the new Government report on Britain’s digital future. When reading through the various online entries on the subject it is striking just how many different industries this report impacts on. ISPs, online retailers, media, advertising, newspapers, the list goes on. And all seem [...]

European football governing body UEFA will no doubt be delighted with the quality of the on-pitch spectacle at this year’s tournament. However, Platini and co’s greatest delight will probably be reserved for their online profits.
According to the BBC , overall profits for Euro 2008 are about 35% higher than for Euro 2004, due in [...]

This year Big Brother rolled out its uber-trashy all-seeing televisual eyes amidst a welter of warnings – ‘kiss goodbye to your summer’ cried everyone from Heat magazine to BB’s own increasingly cartoonish Davina McCall. There’s a grain of truth in that, at least for those of us who can’t be bothered putting up an [...]

This morning I was sitting on the bus, listening to <nme mode>Wildhearts’ frontman Ginger’s confessional rock opus Valor Del Corazon</nme mode> (because nothing says ‘commute’ like a double album about your wife leaving you on account of your heroin habit), thinking about the differences between CDs and mp3s. And how heroin habits are a bit [...]

I spend a lot of time in the company of computers. I’ll happily profess that I know a thing or two about how they work, and then more often than not will regret doing so because whoever’s on the end of my professing will immediately ask me to fix the problem they’ve got with their [...]