Suppliers of digital content have at last been issued with guidance on the EU Consumer Rights Directive of last year.

Picture this: you’re about take a much needed break in the Gran Canarian sun. How would you feel if a huge amount of your personal data, including your bank account details, all forms of payment information, your contact telephone numbers, frequent flyer information, your meal preferences, “general remarks”, whether you’ve purchased a one-way ticket, and “received from” information, were all automatically collected and stored on the Passenger Name Record (PNR)?

Bloomberg has reported that a significant partnership has been struck between Google and Twitter that will see real-time tweets from the latter reinstated in Google’s search results.

Just ahead of last month’s Windows 10 event, we expressed concerns that the new OS would struggle in the new age of device and screen fragmentation. But as more details emerge, we’re beginning to change our minds: this upgrade looks like it really has got the legs that its predecessor lacked.

With last week’s news that Apple achieved the biggest quarterly profit that any company anywhere in the world has ever made – a staggering $18bn (£11.9bn) – it’s worth pondering how they did it.

Back in November, Google confirmed in its Webmaster Central Blog that it was experimenting with a special ranking algorithm for mobile-friendly websites; last week, evidence emerged that it has indeed released a new mobile algorithm.

Facebook is facing its first ever court appearance in a class action suit, which was filed last year by the Austria-based “Europe vs. Facebook” group (led by law student Max Schrems). A court in Vienna will consider whether Facebook has legitimate objections about the admissibility of the lawsuit in an initial hearing on 9^th April.

We all know that Google and Bing are rewarding good quality content in their search results as never before; but what are the required ingredients? SEO expert and SearchEngineLand columnist Nate Dame comes to the rescue with a list of concrete characteristics your content must possess if it’s to please those ranking algorithms.

A new and compellingly engaging way to access digital content has been unveiled this week by Snapchat in the form of its new “Discover” feature, which lets you see the latest (and continually updated) daily offerings from brand partners like Warner Music, Vice, CNN, ESPN, Comedy Central, The Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan, Food Network and National Geographic. Snapchat’s own editorial staff also supply content.

Last week’s Windows 10 event from Microsoft was all about Windows 10, wasn’t it? Wrong. In fact, Microsoft shocked the world by unveiling a new holographic device which it claims will be “the next PC,” revolutionising the way we interact with digital content – but you wear it on your face rather than hold it in your hands or have it on your desktop.