A year of heavy marketing of mobile broadband has pushed the mobile phone networks ahead of WiFi hotspots as the most popular way of accessing the internet on the move. Point Topic’s recent survey* of mobile broadband users shows that the UK mobile phone companies have managed to grow their market share to 47% [...]

Online gambling generated over $9bn in revenue from over 22 million players worldwide in 2007 according to the most recent data from Point Topic.
“We used data from our most recent consumer survey in the UK* along with other inputs to establish the global online gambling market,” said John Bosnell, Senior Analyst at Point Topic.
Just under [...]

Number of individuals spending over 50pc of their monthly income
on unsecured debt repayments triples in one year
Key statistics
· The proportion of UK adults spending over 30pc of their income on unsecured debt payments has doubled in past year (from 7pc to 14pc)
· [...]

* 93% of accountants waste time searching for paperwork each working day
* A mere 1 in 4 accountants have a digital document management system
* Only 43% of documents in accountancy Practices are electronic compared with 52% in [...]

More Than 25% Of UK Residents With a Wireless Network at Home Would Like To be Able to Access Music and Photos Remotely
London, UK – 11th July, 2008 – Linksys®, a Division of Cisco, and the recognised leading global manufacturer of voice, wireless, and networking hardware for home and Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), today announced [...]

A nation of property addicts spend hours looking at dream homes
Britain is a nation addicted to online ‘property porn’ with thousands of Internet users spending hours searching for properties they could never afford, according to research released today by Globrix (www.globrix.com).
The research found that nearly 40% of Brits regularly surf the web looking [...]

Technology Problems & Difficult Clients & Suppliers are Top Anxieties
YouGov/Trend Micro survey suggests small businesses need to be more aware of growing electronic crime threat
Marlow, UK — A new You Gov survey into British UK small business attitudes to operational business anxieties reveals that technology not working (42% of all respondents) is the number one [...]

10,950 days of email misery and now going strong on mobile
Dublin, Ireland, 1 May, 2008, Spam is celebrating its 30th birthday on 3rd May. This is the day when, in 1978, 393 Arpanet employees received the first ever spam email in history from the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). A lot has changed since then, and [...]

But 58% Expect Government Plan to Extend Parental Leave to Negatively Impact their Business
• Approximately half of SMBs are in favour of the government’s plan to extend flexible working to parents of older children
• Flexible Working tops list of company benefits for working parents, as 54% of mums want to work away from the office [...]

Rising insurance premiums, petrol prices and car maintenance costs are pushing drivers off the roads and onto public transport, according to www.moneyexpert.com *
The independent financial comparison website says a quarter of all motorists (25%) claim to use their car less because of the increasing cost of running a vehicle.
Hardest hit are older drivers with 29 [...]