Webism Today

Mobile internet usage is on the rise in the UK, according to a study run by market research group Nielsen Online. During the second and third quarters of 2008, around 7.3 million Britons accessed the web via mobile phones. Generally this represents an increase of around 25% compared to just 3% for the PC metric. [...]

After the huge viral success of alpinekat’s rap video explaining how CERN’s Large Hadron Collider works (okay, one more time), “G1 Love” is now making its rounds on every blog worth reading as the Android Forums folk show off their rapping skills. The first Android-powered phone, the T-Mobile G1, is designed for use on the [...]

Researchers at Hewlett Packard have announced what they see for the future of the internet – a village. This is backed up by recent research that discovered that 40% of the time people spend on line is used to keep up with 20 domains. It’ll come as no surprise that Facebook, Digg, MySpace and YouTube [...]

This week has seen an announcement from Twitter – the social networking site that allows updates that are up to 140 characters long – that has upset many of its users. You’d think at that length the updates would be perfect to send to a phone – there’s even a little room to add a [...]

Unable to get to a computer to make that new update for your Facebook status? Need to change from “single” to “in a relationship” or from “on holiday” to “back at work”? Desperately need to upload the photos you just took from your mobile phone camera onto your MySpace to share with all your friends? [...]