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The digital matchmaker

Online dating is hardly a new phenomenon – thanks to the rise of the internet the trend took off in the 90s, with it’s impact in pop culture first seen in the 1998 Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks rom-com ‘You’ve Got Mail’. Nowadays there are more online dating sites available than you can shake a [...]

How will you be using the internet this year? (Infographic)

Slots of Vegas have made some grand predictions on the rates of internet usage for the new year. Some of them are not entirely unexpected (there will be 54.8 million tablet users in 2012, with 41.9 million of them using iPads, and deal sites like LivingSocial and Groupon are likely to continue boosting e-commerce sales), [...]

20 predictions for the future

A week ago the BBC Magazine published an article exploring some predictions made by American civil engineer John Watkins in 1900. Most of Watkins’s predictions were astoundingly accurate (notably digital colour photography, mobile phones, television, and free university education), while a few others were perhaps a little ambitious (phasing out C, X, and Q from [...]

Your new social media vocabulary list

There is much more to the internet than Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Twitter, but do we really know what else is out there, and how it can help us? Enter the A to Z guide to social media marketing buzzwords, featuring 120 terms you must know. The list includes the basics of social media like [...]

New way to fight cancer

Below is a transcript lifted from the weekly Innovations talk show on Radio Australia. This session focused on the new ways to fight cancer by using what we already have in our bodies. Not with chemo or radio-therapies but by using the body’s own immune bodyguards DESLEY BLANCH: Imagine fighting cancer with our own antibodies [...]