Google is celebrating St George’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the release of Clive Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum home computer with its latest Google Doodle.
The ZX Sptrum was the small black British-produced computer with rubber keys that sold in its millions back when had the UK had a computer industry. Read More
Whilst online surveys often overstate the uptake of technology, Ipsos MediaCT’s offline Tech Tracker data tells us that just over four in ten GB adults now own a smartphone, representing an increase of roughly 30% in the last two years. The rise of the smartphone has coincided with the increased popularity, and normality, of social media usage. Arguably the two are connected, the modern mobile device being the ideal format for keeping up-to-date, and updating, as it means people are always online, even when on the move. Read More
Blackberry owner Research In Motion’s moves to claw back share from arch rival Apple are about to become a whole lot more aggressive in light of a report that says that RIM will be unveiling its new tablet computer and the operating system that will power it as early as next week.
We wrote in May that BlackBerry had designs on the tablet market, since when little detail has surfaced. But according to a piece in the Wall Street Journal, the firm is set to reveal more at a developers’ conference in San Francisco. Read More
In a report of global and US PC sales released by UK research company Gartner, growth of netbook sales slowed significantly in the second quarter of 2010, the same period that Apple’s ‘magical and revolutionary’ touch-screen device dropped from the skies. Read More
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has announced that consumers can expect to see a raft of Microsoft tablets and smart devices launched into the Apple-dominated tablet market, a range of products that even the hyperactive CEO described as just “quite impressive”. Read More
“I listen to a customer call every day. Every single day.” Dell Global Chief Marketing Officer- Paul-Henri Ferrand.
I am impressed: I have met hundreds of heads of marketing and never has any of them told me they devote this much time to actual customer contact. Read More
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