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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...

iPhone 5, set for release in June?

apple-logo1 Rumours of the iPhone 5’s release date have been circulating for months. Indeed, analysts were convinced back in 2011 that Apple would release the iPhone 5 over the summer of 2011 with a radically altered design and more powerful hardware. However many were left disappointed when Apple executives instead unveiled… Read the rest...

Tu Me, a new rival to Skype?

tume The telecommunications company Telefonica Digital has revealed it will be launching a data-based communication app which will allow users to make calls and send messages without using up their quota of call time or texts. This could exploit a gap in the market and could be a potential rival to… 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...