Working holidays
What did you do on your holiday? Did it include working? Our employees should relax on holiday and not read work-related emails. German car manufacturer Daimler has been in the news with its employee...
View ArticleGoogle and the social divide
The social divide: Google search terms reveal inequalities in American society. The New York Times Upshot column explored life in every region in the United States, measuring six factors: Education...
View ArticleChildren and teenagers online
According to recent reports, Google is working on child-friendly versions of some of its services. At the moment Google services are age-restricted (to over 13-years old in the United States; over 16...
View ArticleExperimenting with emotions
Dating website deliberately mis-matched users; art gallery ‘sells’ art to the emotional. Earlier this summer, Facebook admitted it had been conducting experiments on ‘emotional contagion’. Now OKCupid...
View ArticleTop of the apps
Popularity driven by world sporting events – and the weather. Figures released by App Annie for June 2014 show top performing, non-gaming, apps around the world. The top ten worldwide apps include some...
View ArticleInternet security 2014
Symantec declares 2013 a year of mega-breaches and targeted attacks. The Symantec Corporation has published its Internet Security Report for 2014. Symantec’s data monitors threat activity in 157...
View ArticleDangerous and negative selfies
Young women urged to consider unexpected consequences of ‘sexy selfies’ while footage of a man taking a ‘dangerous selfie’ in Spain has gone viral. Research undertaken by the Oregon State University...
View ArticleTime wasting at work
How much time is wasted at work being non-productive – and what can be done to improve the situation? In Sweden, several employees of the Social Insurance Agency have been discovered browsing on the...
View ArticleA simpler life – the secret to happiness?
Survey of 16,000 people around the world explores contentment. Is a simpler life the key to happiness? Or is it being Danish? On average, 77% of respondents from 20 developed countries* declared...
View ArticleThe future of bookshops
I like writing about bookshops. In fact I wrote about ‘the perfect bookshop’ for the Sunday Observer when I was a teenager. It was my first time ‘in print’. I’ve not seen a copy of the article for...
View ArticleSpammers, spam – and Monty Python
Research explores how key spam players interact. Canada’s new anti-spam legislation came into effect in July 2014. It is estimated that over 14 billion spam messages are sent around the world every...
View ArticleInformation Management: past, present and future
Information Managers looking to be strategic influencers and advisors LexisNexis has surveyed 500 people working in information services in a range of roles across Europe. In depth interviews were...
View ArticleWorkplace trends – meet the no-collar workers
If you’ve just about got your Gen-X and Gen-Y straight, meet a new group of workers. There are already, according to the latest estimates, 40 million millennials in the American workforce. A recent...
View ArticleCash free and free cash
While a millionaire is giving away cash on Twitter, new tech is enabling more people to go ‘cash free’. The Twitter ‘free cash’ phenomenon has spread to Europe. In the US @HiddenCash has been posting...
View ArticleEphemeral messaging
“This message will self-destruct in 24 hours” The growth of ephemeral messaging services and private social networks – individuals want more privacy; companies want to be more like Snapchat! Path is a...
View ArticleAccess to the Internet
Google wants to use satellite technology to improve connectivity At the beginning of 2014, there were estimated to be between 2.5 and 3 billion internet users around the world – that’s around 35% of...
View ArticleBusiness schools and MBAs – what do employers want?
Are business schools losing their credibility? Hult International Business School commissioned research to find out what senior level executives, managers and academics feel about the current state of...
View ArticleLearning from the world’s top brands
Google takes top spot away from Apple This year’s BrandZ report has been released. The researchers analyse corporate earnings and combine this data with large-scale consumer research in 30 countries....
View ArticleThe second digital revolution
New information seeking behaviours mean libraries and publishers have to change. People are increasingly creating and consuming information on the move. This, combined with the growth of cloud-based...
View ArticleChatham House rules! A historical digital archive for the 21st Century
Leading international affairs think-tank has released its digital archive. Chatham House in London is the home of the Royal Institute of International Affairs which, by bringing together academics,...
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