Interesting point from an employee of NavTeq, the satnav makers, at mobile location conference MoMoLo last night. He was explaining how navigation companies make maps and directions in countries where streets don't have names. The answer? They do just what humans do - use landmarks. Of course this is an early science, but it's something…

Bummed out by wifi networks that demand you type in fiddly passwords? or worse have badly laid-out log-in pages that bar your browser. Chances are you also get frustrated waiting ages for 3G to load a webpage. Public wifi could solve both these problems and give us the fast mobile internet we're all crying out…

Yes it looks like they did. And they took in almost all mainstream British blogs while they were at it. Dating site BeautifulPeople.com will only allow members in if they are more beautiful than average, but they claim in stories on the BBC and Guardian that a recent virus let in 10,000 ugly people. Unfortunately,…

Harry Potter author, JK Rowling has released a mystery website that currently consists of a holding page with two owls on it. Clicking on the site takes you to a youtube page where a sprawling video featuring the same two owls and timer counting down to the day JK Rowling will make an announcement about…

Don't hyper-ventilate, you can still see Rebecca Black's 'Friday' video on the internet but not on Youtube, where it has been taken down. The 16-year-old singer-school-girl and her people have removed the hit video that amassed well over a 150million views on the site. She filed a copyright claim to the runaway hit song, and…

People have been acting surprised over a study that shows that Facebookers who spend a lot of time on the site and have lots of Facebook friends, tend to have more friends in real life too. HERE'S WHY: Facebook is connected to real life. It is part of real life. Social interaction on Facebook is…

News today that a single tweet has lost a PR company its biggest client got us thinking about other tweets that have cost their authors dear.. Redner Group lost their account with games manufacturer 2k yesterday after threatening to withold game samples from critical reviewers. The tweet from the @TheRednerGroup account read: "too many went…

The sliver-quiffed leader of Wikileaks Julian Assange is auctioning off a lunch date with himself in a bid to raise money for his whistle-blowing website. Oh and the famed philosopher Slavoj Zizek will be there too. Currently the bid stands at £1,850.00 and you have 4 days left to get in there. We call him…

That's advertising for apple the fruit, that is. Digital marketing has become near impossible for apple growers, apparently, as if you google 'apple' you get none of the nutritional goodness and three pages of all this tech babble. Not until page six do you get to the US Apple Association, whose job it is to…

Today it's 40 years since email was invented, a credit that goes to engineer Ray Tomlinson who sent the first electronic message in 1971. The message in question read "QWERTYUIOP" - sent from one computer in Massachusetts to another one right next to it. We've come a long way since then, with the average number…