New stats from a company calling itself GlobalWebIndex claim Google+ is now the second most popular social site in the world, eclipsing Twitter and YouTube with only the Facebook goliath ahead of it. Read More >>
Featured comment by alienvariety:
"G+ is great. Barely use Twitter these days, and Facebook is just for prying and spying - more or less exactly what it was originally invented for." More »
Samsung's quarterly profits exploded by 76 per cent in the final three-month chunk of 2012, thanks to soaring demand for its smartphones and the many internal bits it supplies to other makers. Read More >>
Featured comment by ScyBy:
"Apple should be a case study in how to market a premium product to a mass-market audience. They've got it down to a fine art." More »
HTC's revenue and profit numbers for the last quarter show that it's struggling to return to the sensational form of previous years, with both numbers showing huge drops on the same period of 2011. Read More >>
Featured comment by ilesal:
"HTC saturated the market with loads of devices, most people are locked in two year contracts. What do they expect? If each company (HTC, Samsung, Moto..." More »
The BBC did a cracking job covering the London Olympics -- too right, we last had it in 1948, so of course Auntie was going to go all-out with her coverage! Spanning 24 different live channels, online and on mobile, the coverage left absolutely nothing in the dark so you could follow your favourite sport right from the get-go. And follow it you did, according to stats the Beeb released this week. Read More >>
Featured comment by tsjmcgrath:
"Hm. Strange. Don't Scotland, NI and Wales all have their own governments though? Like, if the UK government passes a law, I think they have the right ..." More »
Sales of IT gear in the UK grew by 14 per cent year-on-year, but this was achieved thanks to our amazing love of buying shiny new tablets. Take them out of the equation and tech sales would've fallen. Read More >>
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