Daily Archives: 12 June, 2012

Apple’s WWDC: Biggest Improvements to Mountain Lion Taken From iOS

Apple’s WWDC: Biggest Improvements to Mountain Lion Taken From iOS
At yesterday’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed new mobile operating system iOS 6 and also the new desktop OS Mountain Lion.

Many of the mobile and tablet features have been imported to Mountain Lion, emphasising the shift towards mobile. Read More »

YouTube continues to rub shoulders with Hollywood’s finest in latest content push

YouTube’s drive to be known for ‘highbrow’ content, continues as it announces its ‘Your Film Festival’ semi-finalists – a far cry from the laughing babies and skateboarding dogs the platform has become synonymous with over the years.

It has selected 50 short films from a pile of 15,000 submitted, and is inviting the YouTube community to vote for the best ones. Read More »

Can right wing bloggers challenge Obama? Sarah Palin to address right wing digital activists

Sarah Palin will this week address a gathering of right wing bloggers and online activist at the RightOnline conference in Las Vegas. Republicans are hoping that the two day event will help harness the power of social media and digital activism and give President Obama a serious headache in his fight for re-election in November.

The right love the digital savvy former vice presidential who has shown a deft ability to harness social media and make herself the undisputed digital queen of the right. In the process she has built up millions of online fans and followers. Read More »

Research shows high levels of brands talking to Twitter bots, not customers

Major brands may not be talking to as many people as they thought, according, to a new report.

Professor of corporate communications and digital languages at Milan’s IULM University, Marco Camisani Calzolari, found that in some cases nearly half a company’s Twitter followers were bots. Read More »