Advertising & Brand Management

The term cloud computing has become something of a buzzword. It refers to the practice of storing information - such as emails, photos and documents - on web apps that can be connected to at any time, rather than on localised operating systems like Microsoft Windows.

Nearly seven in 10 people will buy some of their Christmas gifts online this year, new research claims. The research, carried out by accountancy firm Deloitte, claims the online retail market, worth £9bn in the UK in 2005, will leap to £25bn by 2010, as more consumers switch to the convenience of online purchasing.

It is the first mobile network to do an MMS deal with Twitter. Users send picture messages to 86444 and they are uploaded to Twitter via a picture platform created by Orange called Snapshot.

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Twitter is not charging for the service, which uses the same shortcode that O2 and Vodafone already used to let subscribers tweet via text.