The advent of social networking calls into question many of the evaluation criterias that appeared obvious in the previous historical context. Any society in front of a revolution seeks to discover the sense of it, comparing with the previous reality. The change that contemporary society is experiencing is a real restructuring of the cultural dynamics [...]

Raghu Ramakrishnan is Chief Scientist for Search and Cloud Platforms at Yahoo!, and is a Yahoo! Fellow, heading the Web Information Management research group. His work in database systems, with a focus on data mining, query optimization, and web-scale data management, has influenced query optimization in commercial database systems and the design of window functions [...]

Apple has nearly finalised a deal with four major record labels which will bring iCloud to the world. iCloud will be a cloud service used for streaming music from a huge new Apple data centre in North Carolina. The data centre is set to be the most powerful data centre second only to government servers, [...]

Twitter is a force to be reckoned with it’s a force that can be tamed and channeled to make an effective social media campaign. In fact a social media campaign that does not include Twitter is a non-starter. What has made Twitter a winner in the tough competition of social networks? It is the ability [...]

Residents of the UK will finally have access to mobile phone wallets as long as they have Orange and Barclaycard accounts.The Japanese as usual were the first to have them operational, then the Americans followed suit and now the UK is getting on board. The industry has been slow to get the pay by mobile [...]

How has social media changed the world of journalism? This already is and will continue to be the title of many essays written by students studying media related courses. The question is an obvious but very important one; the question goes beyond the subject of ‘media studies’ and into the realm of sociology and politics.

Microsoft Acquires Skype In an attempt to sure up its tablet and mobile defenses Microsoft has acquired Skype for an unbelievable $8.5bn. Skype is a hugely popular Luxembourg based internet phone service that has over 650 million global users. Skype has been passed around over the last few years; back in 2006 eBay

iPhone owners can be a bit annoying sometimes.   Drawn by my good friend Maxwell Paternoster, this guy has some crazy genius and I had to post his work here. Max is an artist, musician and general man about town. Catch his work at www.maxwellp.co.uk or www.maxwell-p.blogspot.com .A good online art show boutique.

Tech Companies are Saints Compared to Financial Companies.Everyday a fresh story appears on the blogs about the injustices of some tech company. These stories usually involve Facebook and privacy issues or Google and the Panda update. But how immoral and unethical are tech companies? I would argue that they are not very unethical