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Are Google setting up a game plan?

By Tim Fuell - July 13, 2010

After the ‘success’ of the Pac-Man game that Google put on its home page – reports suggest surfers ‘wasted’ almost five million hours of work time playing the classic video game put...

Gaming revolution: No-body does it better.

By Tim Fuell - June 16, 2010

The Wii generation revolutionised the gaming world and offered a response to those saying we all risked developing into couch-potato gaming geeks. However, even die-hard gamers and Wii fans have probably had...

Fed up with Football already?

By Tim Fuell - June 14, 2010

Well that’s the first weekend of the World Cup over with but there is plenty more to come. Fed-up already? If you are the sporty-type but prefer your balls in a different shape...

How the web used to look

By Tim Fuell - May 20, 2010

We are constantly warned about posting information on the internet that we might later regret but here is the proof: The Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive. The US-based site is building a digital...

How will you vote?

By Tim Fuell - May 5, 2010

Tomorrow the country goes to the polls. In what truly has been a Digital Election – TV debates, Twitter and Facebook use by would-be MPs – tradition reels us back in as voters...

How new media saw off the volcanic threat.

By Tim Fuell - April 21, 2010

Any doubts as to the usefulness of social-media were set straight following the past week’s travel turmoil and the solutions offered by resourceful tweeters and Facebook users. On Twitter, #ashtag kept the Twitter...

Don’t be a fool

By Tim Fuell - April 1, 2010

It’s that time of year again and here at 123-reg we don’t want you to end up looking a fool. So we’ve trawled the web and found some of the top April Fool’s...

Where do you do it?

By Tim Fuell - March 25, 2010

A report from the US suggests the social media generation are showing worrying signs of addiction as Facebook, Twitter, and even SMS threaten to dominate their day-to-day lives. The latest Retrevo Gadgetology Report...

Your face type could become your typeface

By Tim Fuell - March 18, 2010

Before the rise of the personal computers, the differing styles of lettering were comfortingly known as typefaces, and a font was just one variation within that typeface. Now one designer is taking...