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The rise in profits has been helped by the fall of the yen and through asset sales. Up to 31st March, Sony’s net profit was 43bn yen ($436m; £280m). This is a great improvement from the 457bn loss from last year. Against the US dollar, the yen has fallen over 20% since last November. This [...]

YouTube are to trial a range of subscription channels on their website. There are 54 of content makers involved with subscriptions starting from 90p a month with a 14 day free trial. Adding a subscription to channels will allow content makers to gain money for their creativity. For example the Sesame Street channel will allow [...]

According to a UN report, next year there will be more subscriptions to mobiles than people in the world. Currently there are 7.1 billion people and 6.8 billion of them have a mobile subscription. By early 2014 the International Telecoms Union predict the number of people with a mobile will rise to over 7 billion. [...]

A security bug has been found in the popular Android app Viber. The bug works by letting attackers take control of the smartphones by bypassing their screen lock. Viber are aware of the bug and are preparing a fix to repair the problem. The bug was discovered by a Vietnamese security firm who found that [...]

Social Media is a great low cost method of marketing for businesses. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are easy to use and don’t require much social media knowledge. The popularity of social media is always growing and its a great way to interact with the public. It is a simple and free way [...]

Pinterest has a bit of a reputation for being a bit girly and as a girl I quite like scrolling through cupcakes and wedding dresses but I guess its not every man’s cup of tea! So for the men of the world a Pinterest inspired website has been created called Manteresting. Manteresting is a new website [...]

EE have announced that their faster 4G mobile broadband service will now be available in Bradford, Bingley, Doncaster, Dudley, Harpenden, Leicester, Lichfield, Loughborough, Luton, Reading, Shipley, St Albans and West Bromwich in addition to the 37 towns and cities already covered. EE have said they are aiming to deliver 4G to 70% of the UK population [...]

YouTube which is owned by Google has announced that they have reached one billion users a month posing a competition between them and Facebook who reached a billion users in October last year. YouTube has said that the growth was due to the recent growth in smartphone users visiting the site every month. Its popularity [...]

Google have launched a new service called Keep which allows users to keep checklists and voice notes. The digital memo market is growing and Google will see themselves competing against services who already have an established position in the market. Other digital memo providers include Evernote who have 15 million active users, Microsoft’s OneNote and [...]

A number of BBC Twitter accounts were hacked yesterday by a group calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacking affected the BBC’s weather, Arabic and Radio Ulster feeds amongst others The tweets appeared on Thursday afternoon and were about fake weather conditions in Middle Eastern countries. The BBC hacking is the latest in a [...]