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The business world has long been aware of social media website Twitter and the power it can have for getting their message across to consumers. Currently showing as having 1,572,302 followers Dell or @DellOutlet is a prime example of big corporations utilizing this marketing channel. Along with Dell, many other corporations and businesses have been making great strides forward using Twit...
The BBC has long supported social media websites with a multitude of twitter and facebook accounts for various programs and celebs, but now the BBC website and specifically the iPlayer are going to integrate more closely with social media sites Twitter, Facebook and Bebo. This new innovation will be available with the launch of the iPlayer 3.0 beta.
Erik Huggers, the Head of Futu...
Stafford MP David Kidney said he had written to police to investigate whether the damning report into the hospital trust responsible for Stafford Hospital could be a base for a criminal prosecution. He said members of Cure the NHS, a group of people whose relatives died at the hospital, picketed his surgery last week, demanding his support.
Last year, it was revealed there were mo...
A new BBC survey of more than 27,000 adults in 26 countries has found that access to the internet and the web has strong support as a fundamental right. When asked if the internet should be a fundamental right, 50% of respondents strongly agreed and nearly 30% responded with somewhat agree.
Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), i...
Organisers for this year V Festival at Weston Park near Stafford, Staffordshire have announced that the tickets sold out within one and half hours.
Essex and Staffordshire
The festival is held annually at two venues, Chelmsford in Essex and Weston Park near Stafford in Staffordshire, on the same weekend and the acts play alternate days at each venue. This year Kas...
Poorly performing websites are costing retailers as much as £5.65 billion per year in online sales according to a joint press release from by Hostway and Zeus Technology where they detail research they have commissioned. The research reveals ongoing user frustrations with slow loading multimedia website content
The survey used the abandon rate, which is where a customer star...
A national survey of 3,000 people has shown that the British public is wasting £52 billion every year on gadgets that they don't know how to work. The study by Stuff Magazine reports the average annual spend on electronic devices is £3,065, but as much as half of the functionality is left unused.
Unbelievably, almost half of those surveyed didn't realise that a HD TV needs ...