Google branded as 'evil' by lawmaker

LONDON - A senior British lawmaker on Thursday (16 May) described Google as "evil" and accused the US internet company of unethically avoiding paying vast amounts of tax in Britain. 17 May 2013 08:11

Unified communications: Not profiling employees poses risk to investments

LONDON, UK / JOHANNESBURG, SA: Research reveals employees are often consulted, but their opinion rarely exerted influence. 12 Apr 2013 10:24

Increase in IT spending predicted in 2013 for EMEA CIOs

PARIS, FRANCE / BERLIN, GERMANY / WARSAW, POLAND / LONDON, UK / UAE: Research commissioned by Riverbed reveals that 71% of CIOs are increasing investment in IT. 20 Mar 2013 10:35

Sprint launches three LTE smartphones

LONDON, UK: Sprint has announced the launch of three LTE smartphones for its Virgin Mobile USA and Boost Mobile prepaid brands, making it, it claims, the first tier-1 operator in the US to market LTE services to prepaid customers. Sara Kaufman, telco strategy analyst at Ovum comments: 4 Mar 2013 07:46

comScore releases the '2013 Mobile Future in Focus' report

RESTON, US: comScore, Inc, a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, has released the 2013 Mobile Future in Focus report. 27 Feb 2013 07:44

Google's 'Enhanced Campaigns' - a challenge for advertisers?

LONDON, UK: Leading London-based digital marketing agency, Greenlight, says Google's "Enhanced Campaigns", will prove a challenge to advertisers, the biggest being that of how third party tracking solutions can integrate into it. As it currently stands, advertisers could be forgiven for thinking Google is upping its game against third party tracking solutions and trying to create a system whereby any solution outside of Google's is rendered less useful, says Angela Knibb*, campaign manager at the agency. 13 Feb 2013 10:29

Embarcadero supports secondary, university-level ICT education across SA

MAIDENHEAD, UK: Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, is actively engaging with the academic community across South Africa to support secondary and university-level ICT education in the country. 12 Feb 2013 06:15

Facebook ad revenues are up - but is the trajectory sustainable?

LONDON, UK: Facebook has confounded critics who thought it would be incapable of making money from the rapid growth of mobile device usage. Not only has it revealed a strong performance in Q4 with revenues up 40%, its mobile ad sales have more than doubled on the previous quarter to total $306m, to account for 23% of the Social Network's overall ad revenues. 3 Feb 2013 09:54

Informa analyst comments on Nokia's results

LONDON, UK: David McQueen, principal analyst at Informa Telecoms & Media, comments on Nokia's financial results. 25 Jan 2013 12:40

Facebook's Graph Search - a story of 'three' halves ... investors, users and businesses...

LONDON, UK: Further to speculation that has been building up over week, Facebook has announced an addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called ''Graph Search". It is designed to allow people using Facebook to find answers more quickly to questions about friends in their Social Graph. 17 Jan 2013 06:07

China is largest single Android market with the US in second place

LONDON, UK: According to the latest research from Informa Telecoms & Media, almost two-thirds of the handsets sold in China this year are powered by the Android OS: China is its largest single market, a third of the Android devices sold in 2012 were sold in China. 27 Dec 2012 06:51

Informa Telecoms & Media identifies Top 10 trends for 2013

LONDON, UK: Informa Telecoms & Media today revealed its Top 10 trends for 2013 for the telecoms and media sectors. Five of the predictions relate directly to telecoms operators and the other five cover the TV, digital media and OTT communications sector. 21 Dec 2012 08:09

Global mobile advertising revenues to reach US$12.8bn in 2013

LONDON, UK: The global mobile advertising market will generate revenues of US$12.8bn in 2013, growing from US$8bn in 2012, according to the latest research published by Informa Telecoms & Media. 18 Dec 2012 10:34

98% of mobile operators say small cells essential for future of networks

LONDON, UK: Informa Telecoms & Media has issued its latest quarterly small-cell market status report, which includes the results of a survey showing that 98% of mobile operator respondents believe small cells are essential for the future of their networks. Interest continues to grow in public-access small-cell deployments as well as integrated Wi-Fi and LTE. 5 Dec 2012 10:30