The end of Tech Talk

This morning I was up and at my desk early, as is my normal practice on a Wednesday morning. That’s where, for close to three years now,  I could usually be found hammering away at the keyboard to get Tech Talk, my weekly column for the Isle of Man Examiner Business News done and dusted.
But [...]

Are your children addicted to the Internet?

The majority of teenagers in school today admit to plagiarism, according to a study just published by the Cranfield School of Management.
Two-thirds of teen respondents admitted to inserting information straight from the internet into school work without actually reading or changing it.
Perhaps even more worryingly, almost a third (28.5 per cent) deemed this as acceptable [...]

How retailers can get online fast…

Napoleon once said that the UK is just a nation of shopkeepers, and I can’t help but feel that he may have a point.
Even though the pint-sized megalomaniac meant it as an insult, if he had been around today he would have probably harangued the Isle of Man for being nothing more than an island [...]

Mobile adverts are the way forward

As global advertising revenues continue their freefall and traditional mainstream media struggle to cope in the new digital world, there’s more bad news from research company Gartner.
A newly published report projects that mobile advertising spending worldwide will grow by 74 per cent this year to $913.5 million and will accelerate in 2011 when advertisers are [...]