The government is considering increasing the penalty for violations of online piracy laws to include a jail term of up to ten years – a massive five-fold increase on the current maximum term of two years.
Ministers have launched a consultation to bring sanctions in line with those imposed on anyone who infringes copyright laws on physical goods.
Periscope – the live video streaming app owned by Twitter – is getting a Google Android launch a couple of months after it was released in the Apple app store.
Is it a social network too far though?
Social media has become a vital marketing tool for SMEs of all descriptions as it not only enables them to target their advertising directly to customers and brand advocates, it also allows for genuine interaction and can be great for customer relations.
And so popular have social networks become that last year, half of all SMEs in the UK increased their marketing spend on social media; higher than that of any other marketing channel
So here’s how SMEs are making social media work for them…
How much of your working day is spent checking and sending emails?
While you may not be able to put a figure on it, the chances are your emailing is taking up too much of your time – figures from The Guardian suggests nearly half (40%) of the working week is taken up dealing with internal emails that are of no real value to the business.
So tomorrow is the fifth annual global ‘No Email Day’, an awareness day aimed at making people more social, collaborative and social at work – but could you go a day without checking your inbox?
You know that feeling when you accidentally send an email (possibly a wholly inappropriate one) to the wrong person?
Or when your inbox gets rammed because someone has included you in a pithy email thread that EVERYONE has ‘replied all’ to?
Or how about when someone leaves their automatic reply on long after they’ve come back to the office?
It’s frustrating isn’t it?