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Ofcom tells ISPs to come clean on broadband speeds

ofcom Broadband has long been a subject of fierce debate between providers, customers and the government. If you’re familiar with social media outlets, in particular Twitter, you will be aware that broadband speeds are always a topic of intense discussion on the social networking site. It seems many of the gripes… Read the rest...

Over 1bn global social media users and counting…

facebook-logo Of the 1bn users of social media worldwide, the vast majority of these are Facebook users. This platform has a staggering 901m monthly active users on its network. The figures that were compiled by the International Telecommunication Union confirm Facebook’s status as the number one social networking platform. It has… Read the rest...

The App Centre – Facebook’s new app store

facebook-logo Facebook has announced plans to launch its own app store in the coming weeks. The ‘App Centre’, as it’s called, will aim to showcase the best and most popular iOS, Android, mobile and web apps. The social networking site wants to create a hub page where people can discover the… Read the rest...

Internet population doubles in five years

A beautiful young Hispanic woman using her laptop According to Internet World Stats the number of internet users this year reached 2.27bn worldwide. Incredibly this is almost exactly twice the figure it was five years ago, of 1.15bn. This staggering rate of growth does not come entirely as a surprise however. Since the World Wide Web has been… Read the rest...

Brits love a bit of Wi-Fi!

Sky-logo According to estimates by one of the UK’s leading broadband providers, Sky, a staggering 5 million Brits have accessed a public Wi-Fi hotspot in the last 24 hours alone! These statistics come off the back of the company recently announcing the launch of a free and unlimited Wi-Fi service to… Read the rest...