Trying to stay true to its mantra of ‘Don’t be Evil’, Google has assured web users that no animals were harmed in the making of its maps, after a picture surfaced on the web showing a donkey lying on the side of a road next to a Streetview car.
Kiosked has partnership with Getty Images to monetise online images by turning them into virtual ‘storefronts’ which people browsing the Web can click on to make purchases.
Facebook owned photo app Instagram has asserted its right to sell its users’ photos to advertisers, sparking a wave of criticism from users and privacy campaigners alike.
Romeo Beckham has made his modelling debut in the new Burberry campaign, causing a huge amount of internet buzz for the brand.
A new era of ‘cognitive systems’ will usher in brand new ways for humans and PCs to interact- including touch, feel and smell, according to new predictions from technology giant IBM. The firm said that within 5 years computers will soon gain human-like abilities to receive input through senses like taste, touch and smell. The … [Read more…]
As part of Google’s annual year-in-review package Zeitgieist, this video gazes back at the previous 12 months and ranks people, places and things that people searched for them on Google.
Twitter has unveiled its top trends of 2012, featuring the first tweet from Mars Curiosity rover to James Cameron’s Tweet from the bottom of the ocean.
Google has launched a suite of new online shopping tools ahead of the festive season, including a list of top toys that lets shoppers inspect potential purchases in 3D, along with listings and even floor plans of nearby stores.
Is anyone seeing your online ad? Traditional measurements of online advertising, such as CPM or clicks, give no measure on how many eyeballs have seen your ad. 1000 page impressions could translate into 1000 views – or none at all. And with no effective measurement models in place, there’s no way to know. So how … [Read more…]
Facebook has launched a new mobile service that automatically uploads a user’s mobile photos to their social network account to review before publishing, sparking privacy concerns that the firm is looking to grab more personal data from their users.