If a picture paints a thousand words, how come it’s such a drag to send a jovial GIF to your friends? You know the drill: you get a message from a friend asking if you’d like to meet for a Starbucks and you want to reply with a quirky GIF. Then the hassle begins: you have to open your browser, hunt down the GIF that fits best, copy it, then paste it to mail or message. You might just as well text “Yep” in words.

In a world that’s moving toward ever-dinkier miniaturisation, it might seem counter-intuitive to bullishly mass produce a jumbo-sized digital device that needs to be mounted on a fairly large wall; and yet that’s just what Microsoft is intending to do.

When it comes to maximising profits and developing new revenue streams, there’s little doubt that Google is a genius in both departments; but things aren’t going its way in Europe, after the European Commission bowed to growing pressure to seek new concessions from the search giant on how it displays search results.

It may seem like a relatively obscure role in the scheme of things but Ireland’s new Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon, will hold global sway.

So, 10^th September is the day that an army of content-creators launch their fight against the prospect of ISP Goliaths charging stinging fees for optimal traffic management.

There’s been quite a stir in Vancouver that might have pleasing implications for everyone involved in social media marketing: social media relationship platform Hootsuite has just acquired its city neighbour, social marketing platform BrightKit.

Google Authorship is the royal road to more trustworthy Web content, right? The key for publishers to build a sound online reputation, the path to meaningful search engine results, yes? It was certainly billed as all of these things. But now it’s been euthanised.

Reddit, the self-styled “front page of the Internet”, has introduced a new way of accessing its content with a pleasing new app for iOS (the Android version is due to appear immanently).

So, it’s nearly upon us. The long wait for the iPhone 6 is about to end as the launch will be on 9^th September.