Today marks the 10th anniversary of the very first “Tweet”. Twitter, the online social networking service which now carries over 500 million tweets per day, has 241 million monthly active users and support over 35 languages. So what did that first tweet say? Two years ago after Twitter turned 8 I spoke to Karen Stocks, the managing director of Twitter Australia. She[Read More…]
If you’ve been enjoying the best of Netflix TV shows and movies from regions other than Australia you may now have a real problem on your hands. Last weekend Netflix applied an update which appears to have successfully blocked all the unblocking services like Getflix and Unotelly that allowed Australians to tap into the full potential of Netflix. Needless to[Read More…]
You could possibly blame one man for all the spam in your inbox, however just over a week the inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, passed away at the age of 74. You may not realise that email is actually older than the modern internet and was a work in progress back in 1971. At the time Ray knew he[Read More…]
Wearable fitness. In the past couple of weeks alone we’ve seen new devices hits the market from Microsoft and Fitbit…and now there’s a fitness band from Sony. The SmartBand 2 automatically tracks activity such as walking and running using heart rate and accelerometer readings to gauge your fitness and stress levels….plus will keep an eye on how well you[Read More…]
What’s a new phone without some shiny new accessories? Following the recent announcement their new G5 Smartphone, LG has also announced a range of ‘friends’ for the device, including something for your pet. The Rolling Bot is a wi-fi connected, ball shaped robot with a built in camera that’s designed to keep your pets company when you’re not home. Controlled[Read More…]
