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The iPhone 4S and SIRI – a Marketing Marvel for you and your company

Unless you have been living in a cave in Tibet, you must have heard  all the hype over the new iPhone 4s. Its new digital assistant SIRI, although still in beta, has a lot of potential. This article is not about the technical aspects of the phone, it is more about the potential it holds [...]

IE bogus IQ Story

A story whiсh suggested thаt users оf Internet Explorer hаve a lower IQ thаn people whо chose othеr browsers appears tо hаve bеen аn elaborate hoax. A number оf media organisations, including thе BBC, reported оn thе research, put оut bу Canadian firm ApTiquant. It lаter emerged thаt thе company’s website wаs оnly recently set [...]

Google has finally unveiled Google+

The company’s top secret social layer that turns all of the search engine into one giant social network. Google+, which begins rolling out a very limited field test on Tuesday. The project, which has been delayed several times, constitutes Google’s answer to Facebook.  The search giant’s new social project will be omnipresent on its products, thanks [...]

PayPal Predicts The End of the Wallet By 2015

PayPal has just hit a new milestone: the payments platform has more than 100 million active accounts. The news, announced by PayPal President Scott Thompson, also comes with a bold prediction: that by 2015, the wallet will become a thing of the past. “As the trend toward digital currency continues to gain momentum, we are [...]

IE9 the lowdown

Finally, Two years after IE8 was revealed, Microsoft will release the final version of Internet Explorer 9.0 during the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. For most of the world, that means it won’t be available until March 15. Most of us have experienced the beta or release candidate versions of IE9 so there are unlikely [...]

Firefox 4 the lowdown

Mozilla hopes to release the anticipated Firefox 4 , a new version that has speed among the main goals of this latest release.

Iphone 5 Rumours

Phone 5 (or the iPhone 5G, as many are calling it) rumours are flying thick and fast already.
Will there be a rush release to erase memories of the iPhone 4′s antenna problems?
Will the 5th generation iPhone deliver ultra-fast mobile internet?
Engadget says, design will be a ‘total rethink’.with rumours of larger screens ect

Social Networking trends

After charting social networking sign-up trends from 2009 onwards, the analysts forecasted 13.2 million more individuals in the USA will join a social network during 2011; meaning 147.9 million people (or 63.7 per cent of the states’ web users) will be signed-up social networker by 2011. Nevertheless, only 10 million more users are expected to sign-up in 2012, while only 6.4 million more people will sign-up in 2013 – prompting analysts to speculate that social networks will need to make a lot more effort to engage with users.

Android achieves majority share of the smart phone market

Google’s Android OS has taken over Apple as the UK’s most popular smart phone platform with a 28 percent slice of the market. The survey, conducted by YouGov for Intelligent Environments, talked to 2,001 people and reported that 28 per cent of smart phone users use Android, 26 per cent use Apple’s iOS and 14 per cent use Blackberry’s native OS.

Browser Stats – March 2011

With this recent news, here’s some of the stats about these two new browsers. If you view the complete browser usage across the web, Firefox 4 is advancing forward of IE9 declaring 1.7% of the browser market share while IE9 claims 1.07%. Statistics, however, confirm a overwhelming preference for Firefox 4., IE9 slowly struggles to keep up the numbers with 1.52% of the market users ,while FF4 storms ahead of the market with 8.33% overall users.

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