Industry figures have suggested that, as expected, more and more people are turning to card payments and online purchasing rather than the traditional ‘cash in the shop’ method. In 2010, the £288bn spent using debit card purchases (a 9.4% increase) actually outstripped cash payments which totalled £266bn. Internet shopping –…

Recently released figures have shown that Microsoft’s 2001 internet browser – Internet Explorer 6 -is still being used by 12% of people worldwide and even 3% here in the UK. It more often than not makes notable appearances in ‘worst tech ever’ lists and has been heavily criticised since its…

Search engine, and pretty much everything else giant, Google, have continued their campaign to be unholy gods of the internet…or something like that, with their newest acquisition, and their 4th UK purchase in the last 12 months. Following the purchases of art identification search engine PlinkArt, music software Simplify Media and speech synthesis software Phonetic Arts,…

Leader of the conservative party, and more importantly, the Prime Minister of this country, David Cameron, has told supporters at his parties spring conference that the UK’s only economic hope is entrepreneurs and enterprise. With the governments bank account practically empty and deep cuts across many public sectors, the country needs some…

The vice president of Facebook Europe has revealed  the amazing statistic that apparently half of the UK’s population – around 30million people, are now signed up to the social networking site. This is a truly remarkable statistic, when considered, one in every two people you see has a facebook account…

Rail, Maritime and Transport Union leader Bob Crow has garnered a wave of criticism from the internet community after announcing his personal belief on how Britain’s huge budget deficit could be reduced. The man thought to have played a part in the on and off rail network strikes we have…

During the last 3 months of 2010, the UK’s economy suffered a disappointing setback. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) decreased by 0.6% from October to December, something which nobody wanted to see. Last years extremely bad weather has been burdened with a lot of the blame for this economic slump, with the…

According to recent statistics published by IMRG Capgemini, online sales rose by 21 percent which equates to an average spend of roughly £83 per person. In comparison to the same period during 2010 the increase was an impressive 31 percent which was possibly fuelled by the January sales and much…

A recent ‘Innovation Index Project’ to find British peoples favourite and least favourite innovations of the last 10 years has brought up some interesting results – alongside the predictable. Every day pains such as the congestion charge and automated call centres are obvious inclusions on the 10 most hated innovations…

When it comes to online shopping, there are still a few people who are very distrusting, they believe that they’re going to pay for the item, for it to never show up, or to be 3 weeks late and of very poor quality. Whilst unfortunately there are always going to…