22 October 2010
Ahead of worldwide tour and release of new album Rock Dust Light Star Jamiroquai launch new websiteDisco, funk and soul band Jamiroquai today unveils its brand new website ahead of its forthcoming album Rock Dust Light Star, which goes on sale on 01 November 2010.Jamiroquai.com acts as a hub between the bands and its fans from all over the world...
15 October 2010
Greater Manchester Police end 24 hour Twitter experiment to raise awarenessPolice in Greater Manchester took to micro-blogging site Twitter to record every incident its force deals with in a 24 hour period. The experiment began at 5am Thursday 14 October 2010 and ended today at 5am.The move from one of the only police forces in the country...
16 June 2010
Britons want to know where their money goesNot-for-profit video site See The Difference launches to help charities fundraiseA new video site has launched in the UK in collaboration with 25 corporate partners including Microsoft, EMC and Virgin
Money Giving and 150 charities.See The Difference says it will offer people that donate to char...
02 March 2010
Russell Athletic 80s-izer viral site continues to embrace social mediaSports brand Russell Athletic themed 80s viral site 80-izer continues to spark interest using social mediaSportswear brand Russell Athletic has continued to tap into the evermore popular 80s vibe with its 80-izer viral marketing microsite http://80s-izer.russellathletic.eu.&nb...
19 August 2009
US President Barack Obama to discuss health care on BlogTalkRadioBlogTalkRadio and Faithforhealth.org feature address from President Barack ObamaPopular podcast platform BlogTalkRadio, will broadcast a live program with United States President Barack Obama addressing health-care reform in partnership with Faithforhealth.org. The program, '40 Min...
12 August 2009
Which? adds social media functionality to websiteUK consumer champion Which? partners with Pluck to socially charge siteUK consumer champion Which? has announced a partnership with social media provider Pluck that will socially charge its website.By adding social networking functionality through Pluck, Which? are hoping that interactions between...
03 August 2009
New application recommendation engine AppSpace launchesAppSpace, a new mobile application directory launched by invisibleSHIELD company ZAGGA new service to recommend mobile applications has launched in beta over the weekend. Billed as a ?application recommendation engine?, AppSpace aims to help app users to share and discover new applicat...
28 July 2009
?Twitter more? says British governmentThe British government is encouraging civil servants to tweet more with 20 page guidelineThe British government has published guidelines for its departments on using the microblogging service Twitter. The guidelines urge departments to ?tweet? more, for up to an hour a day.The 20 page document, which w...
23 July 2009
Gigya and Acquia unveil Socialize for sites using Drupal?s CMSWebsite owners to integrate with social platforms including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace with Gigya Socialize Drupal moduleSocial technology company Gigya has teamed up with content management system (CMS) provider Drupal to provide social plug-ins for Drupal powered websites.Gigya has ...
20 July 2009
comScore study shows Twitter UK growth over 3000 per cent80% of UK internet users accessing social networking according to comScoreMeasurement and reporting company comScore has today announced the findings of its UK focused social networking study.The study found that almost 30 million people (and 80% of UK internet users) accessed a social net...
15 July 2009
Verizon announces interactive social TV plans with application platformVerizon to launch Internet Video, Widget Bazaar and application development platformUS wireless giant Verizon has today unveiled plans to bring the social web to the television with an open development platform and new social service for its FiOS TV service.With the launch of...
13 July 2009
Nintendo DS game and social network for children with diabetes to launchBayer Healthcare unveils release plans of DIDGET diabetes monitoring tool for Nintendo DS
Pharmaceutical company Bayer Healthcare has today announced a new online community and blood
glucose monitoring tool for young people living with diabetes in the United Kingdom.The t...
02 July 2009
Exclusive Tour de France content online from Lance ArmstrongLIVESTRONG create behind-the-scenes look at Tour de France with content from Lance ArmstrongWorld champion cyclist Lance Armstrong will be updating Tour de France fans throughout the 22 day event through his online health community LIVESTRONG.Armstrong will be updating the site daily wi...
01 July 2009
Playfish delivers 100 million games in 18 monthsSocial gaming company Playfish Games sees over 100 million games installed in 1.5 yearsPlayfish, the London based social games company has today announced that over 100 million of its games have been installed across popular social networks such as Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.Playfish rather ambitio...
24 June 2009
Mobile IM application Nimbuzz partners Voxbone in new VoIP agreementMobile instant messenger application Nimbuzz offers users VoIP calls out of 3G or Wi-Fi rangeNimbuzz, a mobile instant messenger application, has today announced a new partnership that will allow its users around the world to make voIP calls from their mobile handset without int...
24 June 2009
VideoEgg and Six Apart offer additional ad revenue to blog publishersPartnership between VideoEgg and Six Apart offers bloggers additional revenue through AdFramesRich media advertising network VideoEgg has announced a partnership with Six Apart that will see users of the social software company?s blog platform TypePad generated additional ad re...
19 June 2009
MyGamma translation tool opens door to minority mobile advertising marketBuzzCity launch MyGamma community led translation tool to reach mobile advertising?s long tailWireless community provider BuzzCity has unveiled its new translation service across its popular mobile social network myGamma.The translation tool encourages myGamma users to expa...
18 June 2009
Retro games come to iPhone with Clickgamer80?s gamers can go back to old school retro games on iPod and iPod TouchMobile games portal Clickgamer has today unveiled a new retro-styled game for Apple?s iPhone and iPod Touch.Dragon Panic, a pixilated game in true retro fashion was developed by mobile games company Binary Square, and features dragon...
17 June 2009
Google to launch micro-blogging search engine?Rumours fly about the possibility of a Google micro-blogging universal search engineThe web has been a buzz this week about reported evidence from search engine Google launching a microblogging search engine that will index content from popular services such as Twitter.Micro-blogging has seen phenome...
26 May 2009
Nokia?s Ovi Store is open for business to 50 million usersNokia launch Ovi Store for both free and charged mobile content and applicationsHandset manufacturer Nokia has today announced the opening of its long-awaited application and content store, Ovi.Ovi is available initially on 50 Nokia handsets, including the soon-to-be-launched Nokia N97, t...
20 May 2009
Live video streaming service Mogulus re-brand as LivestreamMogulus re-brand as Livestream in preparation of a boom in live video streamingPopular live video broadcasting service Mogulus has announced its changed its name to ?Livestream? in order to better communicate its position in the market.Whilst pointing out that the service has more than 3...
18 May 2009
Payment tool BillMyParents allows teens to enhance social experienceParents able to manage teens purchases on social networking sites with BillMyParentsSocial e-commerce company Socialwise has today unveiled its new payment system BillMyParents, that enables teenagers to purchase goods and services on social networking sites and e-commerce sites...
14 May 2009
Adap.tv offer video monetisation to Brightcove and MogulusNew partner program offers increased video monetisation to range of video networksPopular live-broadcast platform Mogulus has announced a partnership with video advertising network Adap.tv to add monetisation options for its high-level users.The partnership sees the addition of an Adap.tv...
14 May 2009
Google unveils Sky Map for Android and robust search toolsGoogle?s Searchology event sees the search giant offer more robust functionality to searchersAt Google?s second Searchology event, the search giant debuted a number of new products and features including more robust search options and a new application for its Android mobile device.Google...
29 April 2009
YouTube to broadcast President Obama address liveGoogle owned YouTube mark Obama?s 100 days in office with live broadcastTo mark US President Barack Obama?s first 100 days in office, YouTube will broadcast President Obama?s address to the nation live at 8pm EDT tonight.Steve Grove from YouTube?s news and politics team said, ?The first thre...