Nerd Insider

The US fall television season is upon us and with it comes a flurry of extravagant, elaborate and epic ad campaigns, vying for our undivided attentions and addictions until the sun pokes its elusive head over the horizon of spring 2013. Of course, any TV network worth its salt knows that the internet is the [...]

Car insurance comparison website Confused.com is launching a new service, Quick Quote, which allows users to text your number plate to Confused and in within seconds, the user will receive the lowest car insurance rate for them. Confused is so confident in the speed of their service for finding you the best car insurance rates, [...]

Passengers on the Eurostar are set to enjoy a seamless internet browsing experience thanks to a deal between Eurotunnel and French telecom operators to install 2G and 3G networks. To begin with, only travellers coming from France into Britain will be able to use the service. Operators Bouygues Telecom, Orange SFR and Free have agreed [...]

To run a successful business it is vitally important to communicate effectively with customers, because it can affect your ability to retain customers and how you attract new customers. Research was carried out by technology analysts Davies Hickman to find out to what extent the way a business communicates with its customers affects its performance. [...]

Zeebox is claiming to be the new Facebook but I feel like we’ve heard it all before with previous contenders to the social media platform – most of which, might I add, have never managed to overshadow the major social networking site and many have had to shut down – Google Buzz anyone? So what [...]

Spotify have enraged some users by making them sign up to Facebook in order to have an account. Visitors to the sign up site are told to log in to the social network or create an account in order to join the music streaming service. This change is just the latest in a long line [...]

West Port Book Festival launches its 2011 programme on Thursday. The directors tell us about a very web-savvy book festival.

Twitter just passed 100m users. We take a look at what else has reached 100m.

In a further attempt to make search results more relevant to the individual, Google announced on Friday that they would be introducing public Google+ posts to social search.

As rioters continue to cause mayhem in London, people are looking to place blame on several social media sites for encouraging rioters to get involved. It is claimed that social media is being used to help the gangs of rioters to organise themselves and arrange meetings in different areas of London.