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Are Teenagers Swapping Facebook for Twitter?

It is almost expected these days that if you use the internet then you will use social media at least occasionally and have a Facebook profile, especially if you are a teenager. Could this time be coming to an end though, as teenagers get sick of maintaining a social media presence on Facebook. Are teenagers swapping Facebook for Twitter? A new report released by Pew Research Centre in America has revealed [...]

What Demographics Use Social Media?

It seems everyone is using social media these days,so you probably think you know social. Did you know that not everyone uses the same social media sites though? According to user data and statistics, different sites have different appeals, depending on which demographic group you belong to. This includes which age bracket you fit into, your gender and even which racial group you are in. If you are in any [...]

Is Microsoft Intruding On Your Skype Privacy?

Of course complete privacy is probably too much to expect in this day and age, especially if you use the internet regularly. We have all become accustomed to sharing content online, social media profiles, and interacting with others via instant messages/internet phone calls. You would hope though that a level of privacy would still be in place for your text and voice conversations though with friends and family. It seems [...]

Why Will Flickr Users Love the Latest Site Revamp?

Flickr is a great service for saving all your digital photographs online, creating sets, sharing with friends, and checking out billions of images uploaded by users across the world. Free users have felt that parent company Yahoo! have neglected them though, as there was a fairly small limit on how many photographs could be uploaded each month. Also only a certain number of photos could be seen if you were [...]

How Much Has Yahoo! Bought Tumblr For?

Yahoo! chief executive Marissa Meyer’s plan to buy Tumblr has been unanimously approved by the company board. The US web-giant is aiming to appeal to a younger audience under the guidance of new CEO Meyer and hopes the acquisition of the popular blogging site Tumblr will help with this. Tumblr was started six-years ago by David Karp and is based in New York. Mr Karp’s story is pretty remarkable considering he started [...]

How Many Apps Has Apple Sold in Total?

Apps are big business and the market is growing every month as more and more people own smartphones, tablet PCs and laptops. This is a new market having only begun in recent years but is now worth billions of dollars. This is especially true for tech giants such as Apple with the iPhone, iPod and iPad.   Tech talk these days often seems to go hand in hand with talk [...]

Internet TV & the Future of Television

Will Internet kill the television star? Not long ago, most homes were outfitted with multiple television sets and a cable or satellite connection. Today however, households are moving away from paying for expensive cable and satellite services. Streaming and viewing entertainment content via the Internet on laptops, smartphones and tablets, rather than on television sets, is a growing trend, especially among young adults. A Generation of Zero TV If your home [...]

What Things do People Love to See and Share on Social Media?

Social media is massively popular across the world with millions of people logging onto Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest everyday. These sites are used by different people for different reasons. All the sites have something in common though; they are used to share content with friends, colleagues and even total strangers. Hence the reason it is called ‘social media’. What things do people love to see and share on social [...]

How Many Samsung Galaxy S4 Devices Have Been Sold?

Samsung are having a field day with their new Samsung Galaxy S4 device. It sports a mega massive screen, with beautiful quality and is selling likt hot cakes. An executive at Samsung has claimed that 6 million of the devices have already been sold, making it one of the fastest selling devices to hit the market. When the Samsung Galaxy S4 was released, there were some delays because the company [...]

Is Warp Speed Possible?

Anyone who has ever watched a Star Trek TV show or movie has probably wondered at least at one time whether or not Warp Speed is really possible. Science and technology moves at incredible rates and seems to be speeding up. Things are possible today that only seemed a fantasy even ten-years ago. We have music videos tweeted from space, fold-able televisions, and phones more powerful than computers. This leads back to [...]