Facebook’s message charge shows how to make money out of desperate fans
Facebook is on to a good thing with its £11 charge for fans to contact their idols. But here’s a way for celebrities to cash in too One of Facebook’s strangest revenue-building schemes of recent times is its new decision to charge civilians to send messages to celebrities. Messaging Tom Daley, for instance, will cost nearly […]
How Smart Phones Make You Smarter
by Markham Heid April 10, 2013, 12:05 pm EDT Boost your brainpower with Bejeweled. Spending a few minutes gaming on your phone can make you smarter, finds new research published inPLoS ONE. After 4 weeks of playing phone-based games for an hour a day, 75 people significantly improved their working memory, focus, spatial memory, or multitasking ability, the […]
Twitter and Facebook ‘addicts’ suffer withdrawal symptoms
Facebook and Twitter users suffered withdrawal symptoms when forced to go cold turkey as part of a scientific study into the addictiveness of social media, academics have found. By Matthew Sparkes 1:33PM BST 11 Apr 2013 In a study by researchers at the University of Winchester, ten self-confessed Facebook “addicts” and ten prolific tweeters were asked […]
Afghan Guys And Gals Meet Facebook To Facebook
By Farangis Najibullah April 11, 2013 High-school student Muhammad Akbar has never dated a girl in real life, but he’s got plenty of girlfriends on Facebook. With social and religious taboos restricting face-to-face contact between unrelated members of the opposite sex, Facebook’s popularity has skyrocketed as a virtual meeting place in Afghanistan.Akbar spends nearly an hour […]
Yahoo’s teen app millionaire
London – Got a tech idea and want to make a fortune before you’re out of your teens? Just do it, is the advice of the London schoolboy who’s just sold his smartphone news app to Yahoo for a reported $30m. The money is there, just waiting for clever new moves, said 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio, […]