Technology Category
Technology Statistics
Posted on September 7, 2012 Leave a Comment
There are currently more than 500,000 apps available on the Apple App Store (Apple, 2011). I was recently researching a presentation and I came up with some interesting stats that I found interesting: 1 in 3 adults in the UK now own a smart phone. There are 75,750,000 active mobile phones in the UK today […]
The Future and Social Networks
Posted on September 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
Social networking is an interesting concept in todays society – I guess like most people who use the internet it’s become part of my everyday life. The question i’ve been asking myself recently though is why? It seems that once everyone you know is a friend on facebook it somehow looses it’s appeal – anyone […]
How “social” is “social media”?
Posted on September 2, 2012 3 Comments
It occurs to me that the world seems to have become obsessed with “Social Media” – but what does the term actually mean? Websites like FaceBook and Twitter seem to have coined the term for themselves in such a way that the brands are used almost interchangeably when discussing social media but the idea of […]
Automation
Posted on August 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
Bill Gates Once Said The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Over recent years automation has become a feature of day to day life and our lives […]
Great Devices
Posted on August 25, 2012 Leave a Comment
Over the past few days i’ve been giving a lot of consideration to what makes a device a “great device”. Take the concept of a mobile phone; I got my first mobile in 1998, to be blunt, it was a BT cellnet brick. At the time I thought it was the best thing in the […]
Re-Revolution
Posted on June 30, 2012 1 Comment
So this is the first blog post of the all new, revolutionised, WestgarthsWeb. I’ve attempted blogging a number of times in the past and have failed miserably predominantly because i’ve never given the blog a focus. I’ve simply dipped in and out of whatever I might be vaguely interested in at the time. Well this […]
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