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Following the sad death of Apple co-founder and digital innovator Steve Jobs luminaries including US president Barack Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates all paid tribute to his memory. And yet still, his legacy was not enough to reach one Facebook friend, who posted:  “Who is Steve Jobs and why are people filing up my newsfeed with posts about him?”

Of course, this comment flies in the face of the advertising activity of Jobs’ company over the last 12 months, during which £36m was spent on advertising its products (Source: NMR). Jobs himself is credited with guiding Apple from the brink of financial ruin to one of the world’s most valuable companies with a market value now estimated to stand at £227bn – thanks in part to the development of the Apple iPhone. 

With Apple appearing increasingly vulnerable, Amazon have made a play to enter the overcrowded tablet market – after the embarrassing failures of Research In Motion's Playbook and Hewlett Packard's untitled, never-produced device.

The Kindle Fire (and new "Kindle Touch") were launched on the 28th of September and, while it lacks the horsepower of the Apple behemoth (which is 2.7 inches bigger), it promises just enough features to make it a worthy purchase. 

Last month, a team from MEC Manchester that included Dan Alderson, Dan McNicholas, Simon Price, Laura Sweeting, Anton Kirkpatrick and Ben McKay took part in a 140-mile coast-to-coast cycle ride to raise money for Elise for Life. They were joined by friends, family and a few people from Global Radio and have so far raised more than £2,800.

This total is still going up, so first of all we’d like to say a big thank you to all those who were kind enough to donate… it really helped the team get up some of those hills! 

It was a difficult, eventful and ultimately rewarding time for all involved – and here, Dan Alderson takes us through the highs and the lows of the 3 days in the saddle.

At 10am on Thursday morning, a team of 14 MEC employees and friends will set off from the beach in Whitehaven in Cumbria in an attempt to cycle all the way across the country to Tynemouth on the North Sea - an epic 140-mile ride across the country over three days.

The role played by the mobile internet in our daily lives has been highlighted by a new study published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this month.

England's opening match in the Rugby World Cup was watched by a peak of 4.8 million viewers on ITV1 on Saturday September 10^th – an impressive start given the inconvenient scheduling times for UK-based fans.

The micro-blogging web phenomenon Twitter now has over 100 million active users across the world, according to its chief executive Dick Costolo – suggesting its popularity shows no signs of fading any time soon.

It's been a busy month for Apple, which won a major court ruling, lost its figurehead Steve Jobs and was faced with grim predictions over the future of its app business.

The latest ABCs released showing results for January to June 2011 show mixed results, with only a few sectors managing to buck the general downward trend.

So, it’s been 12 days since Google Instant arrived and changed the visual face of Google’s search results page.  Still reeling from the addition of a sidebar which helps searchers customise their search results to target specific date periods, verticals and categories; searchers are now able to real-time results pages based on the prediction that Google makes as they input their search.