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I’ve been a fan of Amazon’s Kindle device for a little while now and have used most of the models available here in the UK over the past few years. With this in mind I thought I’d just post a quick summary of the main differences between the versions currently available – and my thoughts on them.

First off, it should be noted that US consumers have far more choice when it comes to Kindle devices, with the media-tablet Fire model, the larger screen Kindle DX, and Touch and 3G …

There’s some pretty surprising and eye-catching research about smart-phone ownership doing the rounds on the tech blogs today – which shows a few unsurprising things (the more you earn, the more likely you are to own a smartphone – the older you are, the less likely etc) and one very, very surprising thing: that even at the lowest income brackets, young people consider a smartphone to be far more of an essential than a luxury.

The survey of 20,000 US mobile customers was carried out by Nielsen, and compared smartphone …

Getting an internship, scholarship, or place at a competitive university can be a pain for all sorts of reasons.  It therefore gives us great pleasure to announce the launch of Letterbanc, a new service designed to make the whole search for professional and academic opportunities much quicker and much less painful.

Letterbanc is simple. First, it matches your profile information with information about internships, scholarships, and academic funding (it’s not a general job site like fish4jobs or Monster, but instead focuses on a sector where available money for posts is …

Welcome to the second of two posts aimed at helping twitter beginners get the most from their use of the service. The first one covered ‘who to follow’, while this one will focus on ‘what to tweet’ – or, as I call it, the problem of the ‘I just ate a sandwich’ type tweet.

You probably recognise these kind of tweets because they are also common on Facebook as uninteresting status updates proclaiming that the user has just performed some sort of mundane activity, in a mundane and uninteresting way. …

This is the first of two posts aimed at twitter beginners who are wondering how they might make the most of the service. Next time I will consider ‘what to tweet’, but for now the focus is on ‘who to follow’. Here are a few tips which new users might find helpful:

1. Ask yourself this question: What do I want to get from my twitter experience? Do you want to use it for purposes of following all the latest news and developments in your professional area? Or maybe to …