Liverpool FC Brings Wi-fi to Anfield
Tweet Liverpool Football Club is to start offering free wi-fi to home fans at Anfield Stadium. The wi-fi, which will use wireless arrays from Xirrus, is deploying initially to the 12,000-seat...
View ArticleSmall businesses should innovate the way they use social media
With so much noise in the social media space, it can be hard for smaller brands to get their message across. Here are some top tips to make your presence count Social media platforms have huge...
View ArticleNew website for Plymouth's City of Culture bid
This is Plymouth -- A NEW website has been launched to provide news and information about Plymouth's City of Culture bid. The site, which went live this morning, features latest news stories, photos,...
View ArticleCats leave their mark on centuries of books
Evidence of feline interference in a 15th-century manuscript reminds us of how big an impression they've made on literature as a whole Emir Filipović, an academic at the University of Sarajevo, was...
View ArticleNorth Korea's threats of war make Chinese neighbours nervous
Over the border from North Korea, residents of mountainous Kuandian county fear effects of conflict could spill over Every time North Korea threatens a nuclear strike, Ge Weihan receives a frantic call...
View ArticleExperts and experimental government | Geoff Mulgan
The idea of giving a clever man a desk in Whitehall is outdated, argues *Geoff Mulgan* in the third of our series on scientific advice. We need to take seriously the evidence about evidence Governments...
View ArticleMark Wright and Michelle Keegan in Twitter spat, she warns – “big mistake”
Michelle Keegan might want to stay away from social media for a while. First off someone posted a picture of a topless girl on her Instagram, and she’s had a fight with boyfriend Mark Wright on...
View ArticleBritain attempts to STOP people deleting their Facebook data in EU clash
The rule, known as the 'right to be forgotten' has been developed by the EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding (pictured) in the face of growing complaints about the way Facebook and other social...
View ArticleRapper Daddy Yankee denies that he is gay after circulation of fake gay kiss...
Rapper Daddy Yankee has dismissed rumours that he is gay, blaming social media for the rumours, as a photograph which sites claimed was of him kissing another man, circulated earlier this week....
View ArticleGame of Thrones! How the Smash Hit Performs on Social Media
PRAGUE, April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Analytics company, Socialbakers, took a look at the smash hit series Game of Thrones to see how it is performing on social media, with some interesting results....
View ArticleChina reports nine bird flu cases amid allegations of cover up on social media
H7N9 killed two men in Shanghai, reports of the disease have also emerged in eastern Anhui and Jiangsu provinces * * Nine reported cases of avian flu in eastern China have galvanised the country's...
View ArticleSeven social classes. Three political parties. It's the mathematics of...
Britain's politicians are fighting the same old class battles in a country which, a new survey confirms, has radically changed Maths was never my best subject at school. But I still know enough to...
View ArticleDoes Spelling Matter? by Simon Horobin – review
Tony Blair and Dan Quayle have both made famous gaffes. Henry Hitchings on the importance of spelling The title of Simon Horobin's book poses what, at first blush, seems a banal question. I imagine...
View ArticleIn Emerging Markets, A Third would Buy a Facebook-Designed Phone
Tweet With Facebook set to unveil its own modified version of Android this evening, Upstream has released its research looking at how the OS would go down in key emerging markets. 31 per cent of...
View ArticleFacebook Home - The Industry Reacts
Tweet Yesterday, Facebook unveiled its latest product, Home – essentially an Android launcher which integrates the social network into the user's smartphone. We've already had our say on the launch -...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: First measure the snow – then tweet about it
When we talk about snow in our family we joke that my mother-in-law measures her snow depth in 'Middlesbrough inches' – twice as large as conventional inches. We always assume she is exaggerating, but...
View Article'We must hold the line on badger cull'
This is Somerset -- Congratulations on holding the line so well over the badger cull business, despite all the brickbats bouncing off your tin hat. I was particularly gratified to see you laying it on...
View ArticleHave 40 years of mobile phones given literature bad lines?
They may have made communication easier, but they have laid waste to many fictional devices Few writers will have toasted the mobile phone on its 40th birthday this week, and the Nobel and Booker prize...
View ArticleHow embracing social media can give analysts the edge
Oh no! The Extel Survey is on us again - it's a study that attempts to rank individual brokers, analysts and investment banks as to how effective they have been to us (their clients) in the past year....
View ArticleStudent journalists quiz newspaper editors
Aspiring writers will join top journalists to debate the future of the news industry Student journalists will get a chance to learn from industry experts next week, when they meet with editors of...
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