Articles By: Steven Hodson

Pakistan delays its proposed filtering and censoring of text messages

Pakistan delays its proposed filtering and censoring of text messages

It seems that the government thought it would be a good idea to filter the millions of text messages that flow through the country every day and censor them for obscene words. Of course the definition of what would be obscene […]

You can tell us – are you addicted to your cell phone? [Infographic]

You can tell us – are you addicted to your cell phone? [Infographic]

Everywhere you turn these days it seems like everything is becoming some sort of addiction and now we have infographic proof that this whole addiction problem is just ridiculous. Seriously. It’s bad enough that there are serious addiction problems in […]

Phone numbers will be a thing of the past one study finds

Phone numbers will be a thing of the past one study finds

There was a lot of press made the other day about how Steve Jobs had wanted to totally bypass the carriers and build his own wireless network and while that is extremely hard to do these days that doesn’t mean […]

Gawker growing out of teenage awkwardness gets rid of the porn

Gawker growing out of teenage awkwardness gets rid of the porn

Nick Denton is a well known name in the blogging world and while he might have more than his fair share of derision tossed his way there is no denying that he is one smart honcho. His network of blogs […]

Do we really love our smartphones or are we pining for the old feature phones?

Do we really love our smartphones or are we pining for the old feature phones?

One would think that because of the way we carry on over the release of every new iPhone or Android slab of plastic that we are seriously in love with our technological marvels of communications. It turns out, according to a bit […]

HP unveils its MacBook Air competitor

HP unveils its MacBook Air competitor

The “ultrabook” marketplace is the next big laptop market to show some serious competition but all of them, regardless of the company manufacturing them, are all trying to compete against the king of the unltrbooks- Apple’s MacBook Air. Today HP […]

Disney shows some serious mommy blogger love – buys Babble Media

Disney shows some serious mommy blogger love – buys Babble Media

Say what you will about groups like PETA but I would definitely rather take them on than get into it with any serious mommy blogger – those ladies don’t mess around. Disney isn’t a company to pass up any opportunity […]

Ice Cream Sandwich’s face unlock security cracked by simple photo

Ice Cream Sandwich’s face unlock security cracked by simple photo

One of the more interesting features that is coming with Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich, aka 4.0, release is the ability to you your face as the unlock mechanism for the main screen. This is done using facial recognition software, which […]

No brands on social media for us says majority of Britons

No brands on social media for us says majority of Britons

I have never been much of a believer in the whole marketing aspect of social media services like Twitter or that people want to become friends, or followers, of brands. As far as I am concerned, especially after being a […]

Even when it comes to sharing online men are different than women [Infographic]

Even when it comes to sharing online men are different than women [Infographic]

Here we go folks, yet another one of those Men are Mars and Women are Venus things, except this time it has to do with how we each share things online. Apparently the social memory sharing platform Proust has been […]

YouTube and Disney join forces to bring original content to the web

YouTube and Disney join forces to bring original content to the web

YouTube has been making some pretty interesting moves lately as it tries to make its video service more than just a stopping point to watch Internet memes or cat videos. As it announced the other week it is setting aside […]

Google TV’s secret sauce for success – porn

Google TV’s secret sauce for success – porn

There is a truism that the reason that the reason that the VCR won in the living room was because it made it easier to watch your porn without feeling like a pervert since only you and the rental clerk […]

Radio listening hours take a big hit in a new media world

Radio listening hours take a big hit in a new media world

When it comes to the effect that  the Web is having on our world most of the attention is directed towards video and big music media companies, however there is also another player in the old media world that is […]

Newspapers going retro with ads while saying ‘smart people read newspapers’

Newspapers going retro with ads while saying ‘smart people read newspapers’

I ran across this rather interesting advertising campaign from the Newspaper Association of America courtesy of Thomas Baekdal that seems to be insinuating that the really smart people out there are newspaper readers while the rest of us are losers […]