BT Sport has swept up the rights to the next Ashes series from under the nose of rival Sky. As competition between the Pay TV rivals intensifies, BT is primed to broadcast the Ashes from Australia for the first time, vastly upping its cricket output and diversifying its appeal beyond its strong football programming. On […]
The latest report in We Are Social’s series of studies into Digital, Social & Mobile use around the world shows that the pace of digital adoption in China shows few signs of slowing. Internet in China The research shows that roughly 100,000 people in China started using the internet every day over the past year […]
NASA is embracing the smartwatch revolution by opening a free for all design competition in which the public are invited to create an app for Samsung Gear 2 wearing astronauts on the International Space Station. Hosted via Freelancer.com the initiative will offer the creator of the best app a cash prize of $1,500 with the […]
It is not a far cry to say that mobile phones are an integral part of our lives today. Based on a recent study conducted by creative agency We are Social, there are over 3.6 billion unique mobile users in the world. With 33 percent of the population using mobiles to access the Internet and […]
News UK is resurrecting iconic stories from The Times’ 230-year history as part of a campaign designed to reinforce the value of the newspaper’s journalism. The three-month campaign, created by WPP’s Team News through Wunderman UK, targets current trialists of The Times and The Sunday Times, and is intended to improve retention rates by showcasing […]
Singapore’s National Day has broken the record for the highest number of tweets around a single event in the country, which celebrated its 50th birthday. More than 230,000 tweets about #NDP2015 and all things related to the National Day Parade were posted for the city-state’s super-hyped celebrations. The climax of SG50 beat the last record […]
Internet giants Google, Facebook and Twitter have teamed up with the Internet Watch Foundation, an anti-child abuse charity, to pull indecent images from the web which have been identified by unique ‘hash’ codes. Not to be confused with a hashtag these codes are actually a photo-tagging system used to identify lists of inappropriate images for […]
Toyota has seized on Siri voice control and uses a radio spot to interact with drivers’ mobile phones. Saatchi & Saatchi, together with the motoring giants, developed the ad, in order to get people to think twice before using the cell phone while driving. The radio spot simply communicates to the mobile to switch itself […]
A third now see their smartphone as the preferred device to access the internet, while 4G subscriptions grew tenfold over the course of last year. Smartphones have now overtaken laptops as the most popular device for getting online, with record ownership and use key drivers. This is according to Ofcom’s 2015 Communications Market Report, published, […]
About 40 per cent of global eCommerce transactions involve multiple devices prior to purchase, highlighted Criteo in its Q2 results. Mobile commerce accounted for 27 per cent of all eCommerce in Southeast Asia, putting the region at a similar level to Spain and Italy, and right behind the US. The APAC region accounted for nearly […]