An analysis of half a billion tweets shows people wake up happy but get grumpier as the day progresses. Using the micro-blogging site Twitter as a gauge of global sentiment, US social scientists studied 509 million tweets from 2.4 million users in 84 countries between February 2008 and January 2010, according to research reported in [...]

Year-over-year (2Q10 to 2Q11) WLAN sales are up 35% as broad-based demand for wireless network connectivity continues. Worldwide wireless LAN equipment revenue jumped 19% sequentially in 2Q11, to $813 million, eclipsing the previous high of $754 million set in 4Q10, according to Infonetics Research. North America had the strongest performance in 2Q11, both sequentially and [...]

Research by Simplyhealth found that nearly 50 per cent of people believe the way they seek health-related information and advice has changed over the past decade. Britons are increasingly relying on the internet to provide health information, rather than treating their doctor as the first port of call, a survey suggests. Thirty-one per cent of [...]

It is always good to have very strong players and very integrated ones,” Yves Maitre, a senior vice president at FT Orange, said in an interview with AllThingsD. “We welcome strong competitors to Apple, and Motorola and Google will be this type of very strong competitor . Despite that, exec said he doesn’t believe the market [...]

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh successfully identified about one-third of the people they tested, using a powerful facial-recognition technology recently acquired by Google. Race to expand their facial-recognition abilities, new research shows how powerful, and potentially detrimental to privacy, these tools have become.As Internet giants Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. The research demonstrates [...]

Research firm Canalys released its final smart phone market estimates for the second quarter of 2011, which show that Google’s Android mobile operating system now has nearly half of the worldwide smartphone market–48 percent, to be exact. Of the 56 countries Canalys tracks, Android leads in 35 of them. The latest global market-share estimates for [...]

A new study shows that even when using very simple and inexpensive manufacturing methods – where flexible layers of material are deposited over large areas like cling-film – efficient solar cell structures can be made.A scientific advance in renewable energy which promises a revolution in the ease and cost of using solar cells. The study, [...]

When a business want to understand the masses of data within twitter they first need to understand the tweet curve and the power of filtering and storing the users tweets and be able to think past everyday tweets such as I just ate my Chinese takeaway dinner it was awful or I have just seen a red plane and understand the power of this analytical twitter data. For example a brand may want to collect all data about red planes on an ongoing basis and filter the results in order to understand them for market research.