Tech and Auto

Late last year a study conducted by the University of Birmingham revealed an over-reliance on using computers and search engines is weakening people's memories. But could an over-reliance on smartphones also be weakening our emotional memory functions? According to academic research, the trend of looking up information rather than retrieving it from memory "prevents the build-up of long-term memories". The memory habits of 6,000 adults in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, found more than a...

We certainly live in a digital world. Although digital technology has been around for the last few decades (think digital watches from the 1970s), the turn of the millennium has seen a marked increase in the movement away from analogue and towards digital technology. In fact, when you look through the various aspects of our life that are now dominated by digital technology, you'll see why our opening statement is true. Indeed, from entertainment to dating on apps such as...

Sammy Screamer is a movement sensor that can be attached to pretty much anything to monitor if it moves alerting the owner via an alarm and app notification. All good things come in small packages and this is no exception.   The little screamer itself is so tactile and the colour just pops when you open the box. The set up is amazingly easy even for a technophobe like me.  Download an app and you are pretty much good to go....

Making sure as much money as possible goes towards philanthropic projects is extremely important to the National Lottery so with each and every ticket sold a large sum goes to a variety of projects. Less than 1% of the total revenue from the sale of lottery tickets is kept as profit after tax and 4% goes for operating costs. Believe it or not it has amounted to the grand amount of £35 billion spread over 450,000 projects. You’ll be happy...

Germany is the most Googled word in Syria, according to the search engine's marketing Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Yonca Brunini. Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, Google marketing Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, she revealed that Khloe Kardashian’s ex-husband Lamar Odom topped the 2015 Google searches for the rest of the world, demonstrating the disparity across the world in internet use and the accessing of information through search engines....

Tech giant Microsoft has acquired LinkedIN for $26.2 billion in the largest acquisition it its history. The deal is Chief Executive Satya Nadella’s latest effort to revitalise Microsoft, putting social media at the heart of the company's offerings. Mr. Nadella said today’s work is split between tools workers use to get their jobs done, such as Microsoft’s Office programs, and professional networks that connect workers. The deal, he said, aims to weave those two pieces together. “It’s really the coming...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Anyone with a mobile will have been annoyed by calls from spam companies, offering to sort out PPI repayments or wondering if you have ever had a injury at work. Well a new service has just been launched that gives the mobile phone user a simple and easy way to stop nuisance calls by sending a text. Now mobile phone users can register with the (TPS) Telephone Preference Service by sending a text saying “TPS”...

Brian Lonsdale sheds light on the latest Google initiative AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), and tells TheLondonEconomic.com what it means for website owners.  Brian is an SEO expert dedicated to increasing client's website traffic through major search engines for medium to large businesses in the UK. Visit https://www.smarterdigitalmarketing.co.uk to find out how you can benefit. Accelerated Mobile pages are becoming increasingly popular to reduce frustration for their users. AMP is a collaborative web approach used by the world’s internet giants, to make mobile web...

Volkswagen sends clear message to the market with futuristic new showroom Car production in the UK remains on course to hit an all-time record by 2020, after official figures revealed 10.3% more cars were made in the first three months of 2016 compared to last year. As growth in the UK car manufacturing shows no sign of slowing, 443,581 cars were produced up to the end of March, equating to around one UK-built car being manufactured every 16 seconds. Home market...