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Social media is so addictive it’s turned on after sex

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While it’s not surprising to discover that many people can’t live without their daily dose of social networking sites, some interesting statistics have emerged from the latest study by the consumer electronics shopping site Retrevo.com.

Where 56% of those who took part in the survey said they checked Facebook between one and ten times, over a quarter checked in over ten times each day.

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One in three under-35s texts, tweets or uses Facebook straight after sex, compared to just 8% of over−35s, while two-thirds of under-35s don’t have any problem using these services at work.

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Originally posted on October 13, 2009 @ 11:13 am

Is social media calling out celebrities to apologise more quickly?

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Dannii Minogue and Danyl from X Factor
Dannii Minogue and Danyl from X Factor
If you’ve been keeping an eye on British show business over the past few days, you’ll have seen a couple of fairly minor celebrities making objectionable or suggestive statements and being lambasted for them.

Firstly Anton du Beke caused a(nother) race row at the BBC when he made a poor “joke” to his Strictly Come Dancing partner Laila Rouass.

Then, live on Saturday’s X Factor, Dannii Minogue questioned whether contestant Daryl should’ve changed the lyrics on his song because he’s bisexual.

In the second case, particularly, this sent up a flurry of activity on Twitter — it’s not often that something from the UK makes the trending topics so consistently — and elsewhere, with some of it calling for Dannii to leave the show, or at least apologise. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 12, 2009 @ 10:20 am

Shazam music discovery service comes to O2 UK customers

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shazam-logoO2 may still be reeling from its recent loss, but it’s not resting on its laurels, and has partnered with the Shazam music discovery service, finding a new way to make money from its impatient customers.

Some smartphones already have Shazam as an application, so no worries for those users who desperately need to know what that song is, but for those on O2 with lesser handsets, they can now call the 2580 short code, hold their cellphone’s microphone to the source of the music for a few seconds, and then have details of the song texted back to them via SMS. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 29, 2009 @ 7:28 am

Microsoft and FTC offer up anti-scammer PSAs

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Microsoft appears to be getting a lot more serious about online security. A couple of days ago it announced the free Security Essentials for Windows users, and now it’s running a range of public service ads, in collaboration with the FTA, warning against online scams.

It may not tackle Bing’s fake pharmacy ads but these PSAs will pop up in a bid to protect surfers from scam mortgage foreclosure, credit repair and advance fee fraud. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 30, 2009 @ 8:50 am

Nokia acquires Dopplr mobile travel service

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dopplr_logoNokia has announced another acquisition in its push to deploy useful mobile services for its cellphone users.

Dopplr is a service that allows travellers to share their personal and business travel plans privately with selected networks, as well as gleaning information about good places to stay, eat and explore in various worldwide cities.

Though the press announcement is shortened to-the-point, this is no doubt a useful service that could tie in well with other services such as Maps, Plazes and Navteq.

Nokia insists that the current experience for Dopplr users won’t change. I expect there’ll be some interesting ongoing development to get Dopplr functionality into Nokia phone software. It could see the expansion of the seven-strong London/Helsinki-based company.

Originally posted on September 28, 2009 @ 8:31 am