Daily Archives: 1 August, 2011

Apple will launch iPhone 5 in October

The iPhone 4 due to be replaced by the iPhone 5AllthingsD reports that rumours Apple will launch the new version of its iPhone, the iPhone 5 in October, and not September as is being widely reported.

The September rumour sparked a wave of blog posts and seemed to be largely based on what an AT&T employee had said regarding holidays being cancelled for the last two weeks of September due to an “event blackout”. Read More »

Are Generation X’s class of marketing directors to blame for businesses failing to get social media?

Interesting piece on the Telegraph website today from Alexis Dormandy, who runs something called LoveThis.com, who argues that despite all the evidence that social media works businesses still don’t get it.

He blames Generation X market marketing directors, those 40 year olds, now running the marketing show for failing the big businesses they work for in pushing through social media adoption. He says they have the wrong skills. I’m pretty sure he’s wrong. Read More »

Everyone makes more in Silicon Valley [infograpic]

Nosey as we all are this is a great infographic from Focus giving the low down on how much those geeks in Silicon Valley are making. What’s interesting is that for all the jobs listed the pay is better in Silicon Valley than it is elsewhere in the US. Read More »