More than a quarter of UK Christmas shopping will be online in 2011 and 12% from mobile
Nov2011
More than 25% of seasonal shopping will take place online this Christmas, according to the latest research from shopping comparison site Kelkoo. And of those, 12% will be made via a mobile. The study found that UK households would spend more on gifts than those in other European countries, spending an average of £437 per household. [...]
The beginning of the end for flash
Nov2011
Even though Adobe just mentioned it was planning to invest further in HTML5 after restructuring, a rumor from ZDNet suggests the changes could go even further by dropping development for Flash Player on mobiles entirely. According to an email reportedly received by the company’s partners, its future work on Flash for cellphones and tablets will focus on enabling [...]
The digital living room isn’t here yet
Nov2011
Despite all the hype around Netflix streaming, and Apple’s iTunes movie store, the fact of the matter is that the physical disc is still the king of home entertainment, Dan Frommer at SplatF reports. As you can see in the chart below, digital streaming/sales only accounted for 19% of the home entertainment market in the third quarter. The rest of [...]
The future of social gaming isn’t all about facebook
Oct2011
The bulk of social gaming revenue in the next three years will not come from Facebook, as you might suspect, but rather from alternative platforms that are dominant in other countries. In a study conducted by SuperData Research on behalf ofViximo, a social games and applications platform, it found that non-Facebook social gaming will explode [...]
Raising geek kids
Oct2011
Being a nerd is a good thing in our house. My daughters both love being creative, working with technology and learning new things. They proudly identify themselves as geeks. For a long time now I’ve had a goal to raise children that are creative problem solvers – the kind of people that encounter a problem and [...]
Move over social media: here comes social business
Sep2011
IBM is moving itself and its clients well beyond social media into a new era of collaboration, insight sharing, and lead generation it calls social business. It takes extraordinary chutzpah to promote a vision before it can be fully realized by your audience, let alone your company. IBM did just that in 1997 when [...]
Mobile internet use nearing 50%
Sep2011
Almost half of UK internet users are going online via mobile phone data connections, according to the Office for National Statistics. Some 45% of people surveyed said they made use of the net while out and about, compared with 31% in 2010. The most rapid growth was among younger people, where 71% of internet-connected 16 [...]
Smartphones make religion mobile
Sep2011
Bible quotes, Torah chants and Buddhist prayer wheels can all be accessed on the go following an increase in faith-based phone apps. Carmen Roberts examines how app developers in Singapore are creating software designed to help people make the most out of religion. Watch video By BBC Click, 01 Sept 2011.
High tech schools: 7 innovative ways teachers are using tech in the classroom
Sep2011
Many schools across the country have rules about tech in the classroom, but they’re not the rules you might think. Teachers instruct students to take out their smartphones, to power up their iPads, and to log in to Twitter. Technology’s role in the classroom has been widely debated: does it simply feed an addiction to a mobile [...]
Have computer games become boring?
Jul2011
There are some vintage video games that will live long in the collective memory. Space Invaders, Tetris and Doom were original, inventive and didn’t have a number after their name. Nowadays, the market is saturated with sequels and franchises. But does that mean innovation has dried-up? In the video games industry at the moment, things [...]