- Twitter passed the 500 million user mark which is nearly 60% of Facebook’s reach.
- Google boosted its Finance offering this week by offering free access to real-time London Stock Exchange prices.
- The Pope just went Web 2.0! He will be taking to Twitter each day throughout Lent this year to attract a new “media savvy generation”.
- Fed up for bad quality MP3’s? Well Apple have announced a much improved iTunes audio quality service.
- Fairfax announced they would be ramping up digital subscriptions & content after disappointing first half earnings.
- Grammatically awkward, but a nice campaign from KFC all the same: The Goodest Get Together.
- Following the recent launch of Rdio, Spotify is finally coming to Australia!
- Facebook and Twitter are more addictive than Cigarettes and Alcohol
- Facebook generates 2x the number of page views as Google, but only 1/10th of the revenue.
- Perhaps we’re not ready for Smart TV after all: 53% of smart TV’s sold have never even been connected to the internet! Google TV figures tell much the same story, with only 1 million devices currently in use globally.
- Every 60 secs in social media 2m YouTube clips viewed, 700k messages via Facebook & 175k tweets are fired!
- Wow, camera phones have come a long way: 41 Mega Pixels isn’t that far away apparently!
- Check out Samsung’s transparent window that was shown off at CES 2012.
- Ford’s most tech-fuelled car to date, the B-MAX launched at the Mobile World Congress this month.
