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The digital mission to China and the Shenzhen Maker Faire is approaching ever closer, but fear not, there is still time to apply if you’re a maker, creative technologist or entrepreneur and want to come along and partake in our specially tailored week-long programme.  

Email is not the problem. How you manage it is what’s important.

Here’s 5 steps to email liberation from productivity coach Carl Rodrigues :

Four in every five mobile phone owners leave their devices undefended.

That's the stark message from a new report by Voxburner, showing that only 19% of 16-24s use security software.

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`"Always on" for consumers means 'ever onward' for digital marketers.

That's the conclusion of a PwC and IAB survey showing that mobile advertising earned £429.2 million during the first half of 2013, continuing the sector's exponential growth.

Redundancy isn’t a positive word, but in digital business it can be the difference between success and failure.

It’s a term used across the high tech sector, especially in ‘software as a service’ or SaaS, where the service is based in ‘the cloud’. SaaS is a growing sector because it’s a rapid means of improving site operation and data analysis, and it enables smaller brands to compete.

More of us are online, but we feel pretty meh about it

 The number of Britons going online has soared in the last decade, but the majority do so without enthusiasm.

That’s the conclusion of the latest report from Oxford Internet Surveys of our national internet use, which identifies five groups:

• Cyber-moderates, who use the internet but had no strong feelings either for or against it (37%)
• Adigitals, who felt the internet was taking over their lives and invading their privacy (14%)

Bye bye, Belisha. There’s a new beacon in town.

In The Guardian, Simon Baldwin blogs that iBeacon seeks to lead.

Apple’s proprietary challenger to Near Field Communication arrived with iOs7. It boasts a range of up to 50 metres and uses Bluetooth low energy (BLE) to pinpoint location.

When collaborating on an idea using IT or social media, disagreement is inevitable.

Finding a channel is not difficult, but finding the right one for you can take time and research.

Honda's campaign was simple: tweet the reasons you hate your old vehicle and use the hashtag #wantnewcar.

The car giant then responded to individual gripes with entertaining videos posted to Vine and embedded in the company's tweets. 

It was a big hit, but just how did they do it?