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Recession still getting you down? Have you had your fill of doom and gloom headlines and are you getting rather sick of thinking about all these economic woes?
Then you’re certainly not alone. In tough times past Hollywood, fiction writers and the entertainment industry as a whole have tended to do rather well as people seek to escape the harsh realities of life.
This time round folks are flocking to the internet to help forget their troubles, according to a recent study out of America.
The report entitled …
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This morning I was up and at my desk early, as is my normal practice on a Wednesday morning. That’s where, for close to three years now, I could usually be found hammering away at the keyboard to get Tech Talk, my weekly column for the Isle of Man Examiner Business News done and dusted.
But today, as I booted up the old desktop I suddenly remembered…I’m not doing that anymore.
That’s right. Next week will be my last weekly Tech Talk newspaper column; I told the editor a few weeks ago …
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The majority of teenagers in school today admit to plagiarism, according to a study just published by the Cranfield School of Management.
Two-thirds of teen respondents admitted to inserting information straight from the internet into school work without actually reading or changing it.
Perhaps even more worryingly, almost a third (28.5 per cent) deemed this as acceptable practice despite recognising that such behaviour is considered plagiarism.
Commenting on the results, Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development at Cranfield School of Management said: ‘Our research shows that technology obsession hinders spelling skills, implicitly …
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As global advertising revenues continue their freefall and traditional mainstream media struggle to cope in the new digital world, there’s more bad news from research company Gartner.
A newly published report projects that mobile advertising spending worldwide will grow by 74 per cent this year to $913.5 million and will accelerate in 2011 when advertisers are expected to boost mobile advertising spend as part of an overall shift to digital channels.
Media industry website Mediapost.com reports that by 2013, Gartner expects mobile ad spending to surpass $13 billion, with the Asia-Pacific region …
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It’s been pointed out to me a few times over the last few days that within a couple of hours of my interview with Manx Radio’s Stuart Peters about Twitter, the site crashed and was down for hours. The implication is that Talking Heads audience members flocked to the microblogging site in droves to check it out and, due to the sheer volume of Isle of Man traffic, the site collapsed. It’s flattering to think that I am that persuasive, however unlikely.
What actually happened is that Twitter suffered …
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Researching EU regulations, speaking at community events, choosing domain names for clients.
These are just three things that have been keeping this PR busy over the past week. It’s the variety that keeps the job interesting. I’d not been involved in domain names for quite some time, so it seemed prudent to review the basics.
I thought I’d share the learning here because in this day and age just about everybody in business, whether you are a baker or a banker, should own a domain name.
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There is no doubt that the mobile phone proliferates in modern life. Everyone has one. In fact, it’s not uncommon for people to forego having a land line all together so that they depend solely on their mobile to keep in touch with the world.
Recent studies show that in Europe, there are more mobile phones than there are people. And with the price of smart phones coming down this is a trend that seems set to continue. Thanks to 3G technology, people can browse the internet, place a …
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Michael Jackson via last.fm
Some say it rivals the deaths of Diana and Elvis as a ‘remember where you were when you heard the news’ moments.
For millions and millions of people around the world, hearing news of the sudden death of Michael Jackson was like hearing about an old friend. But this time it was different.
This time, people scrambled onto the internet for confirmation of the terrible news and within minutes of the story breaking, the world wide web trembled under the pressure.
Celebrity gossip website TMZ.com was among the first to …
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A few weeks ago I received an invitation from director of information systems at the Isle of Man Government’s Allan Paterson to attend a two-day workshop for IT organisations. Unfortunately, I couldn’t attend but by all accounts it was a great success.
The programme was funded by Microsoft but was not focused on its software alone. Instead, the workshop highlighted proven best practice skills and strategies in the areas of market development and in coping in global markets.
This workshop had previously been delivered to more than 1,000 companies world-wide, and was …
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A lot of people in the Isle of Man are quite excited about the Government’s initiative to help get Island retailers online.
There’s been some negative publicity about the e-commerce platform that’s been selected and since I write about technology on these pages every week, I’ve been following the story with interest.
For someone in my line of work that means setting the necessary persistent searches to make sure I see any online mention of Venda, the e-commerce vendor in question, and what was quickly revealed to me is that no one …
