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iPhone 5 hits 5 million sales in 5, no three days - more than 33x Samsung Galaxy S3 sales

Apple has just announced that it has sold over five million iPhone 5 devices in just three days after its launch. Making the iPhone 5 the fastest selling smartphone since the iPhone 4S, no seriously.

TechRadar says that, “The phenomenal sales of the iPhone 5 have underlined that the public were desperate to get their hands on the latest handset, with Apple looking to address the now widespread shortages of the device."

However, The Telegraph reports that the record-breaking launch disappointed Wall Street as analysts predicted up to 10 million sales. This resulted in Apple stock to fall more than two per cent in pre-market trading. Not brilliant, not brilliant at all!

Apple also announced that more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, “the world’s most advanced mobile operating system” – that figure is great, but unfortunately not many tech journalists agree with that latter statement. Particularly around the #iOS6Maps failure - Charles Arthur from the Guardian called it “one of its [Apple’s] worst PR disasters”. Even Transport for London had a dig; staff at Hackney Wick station near the Olympic Park had this to say:

Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting too niche. #HackneyWick twitter.com/binny_uk/statu…
— Ben Mathis (@binny_uk) September 20, 2012

So the past week or so has been pretty turbulent for Apple, but to fair the iPhone 5 hasn’t done too badly, 5 million device sales is pretty good (33xSamsung Galaxy S3 sales), and despite the widespread criticism of the Maps,100 million iOS 6 downloads is pretty respectable. However, if you’re going to ask whether I’d be buying an iPhone 5 any time soon, I’d say I’m not convinced.

If you really want to know why, you can ask me via Twitter.

Cheerio!

@nahidur

[This article was originally posted on MobileFiller]

Shocking: Only four girls take A-level Computing in Northern Ireland

PC Pro reports that the number of students taking A-level computing has fallen to such low levels that only four girls took the subject in the whole of Northern Ireland this year. To add to this, only 52 students took the course.

These figures are not only alarming for a nation that has a million 16-25 year olds out of work, but is the continuation of a trend that has seen the number of British computing graduates decline by two-thirds over the past decade.

Looking at the whole of the UK, only 0.4% of the students sat A-level’s in computing. A mere 3,809 students took up the course in contrast to 4,002 last year. Out of which only 297 were girls.

The IT skills and gender gap issues have been in the news for far too long now, and with the decline in A-level computing students, businesses need to work with the Government, colleges and universities to educate and support each other to resolve this issue. It’s time for all to act now otherwise we’ll become a nation that not only imports goods, but imports talent too.

@nahidur

Olympics inspire 150 million conversations on Twitter-verse

Twitter revealed that last night’s Olympic closing ceremony saw more Tweets per minute (TPM) than Usain Bolt’s 200m final win – which received over 80,000 TPM. However, the Spice Girls stole the show, inspiring more than 116,000 TPM during their performance last night.

Word associated with the ‘Olympics’ during Games on Twitter via @sysomos

Over the past 16 day period, Twitter saw 150+ million Tweets about the Olympics. Here are the biggest moments of competition:

Usain Bolt (@UsainBolt) of Jamaica wins gold in the 200m sprint: 80,000+ TPM
Bolt wins gold in the 100m sprint: 74,000+ TPM
Andy Murray (@andy_murray) of Great Britain wins gold in the men’s tennis singles: 57,000+ TPM
Jamaica wins gold and sets the world record in the men’s 4×100 relay: 52,000+ TPM
Team USA beats Spain to win gold in men’s basketball: 41,000+ TPM

The most-discussed British athlete throughout the Games was diver Tom Daley, who went on to claim bronze in the 10 metre final. Here is a list of the other most discussed athletes during the games:

Usain Bolt (@UsainBolt)
Michael Phelps (@MichaelPhelps)
Tom Daley (@TomDaley1994)
Ryan Lochte (@ryanlochte)
Gabby Douglas (@gabrielledoug)
Andy Murray (@andy_murray)
Kobe Bryant (#GetKobeOnTwitter)
Yohan Blake (@YohanBlake)
Lee Chong Wei (@Lee_C_Wei)
LeBron James (@KingJames)

The Olympic Games have been incredible, especially for someone like me who lives a stone’s throw away from the Olympic park; I’m already feeling the post-Olympics blues. Twitter definitely played an important role in keeping people up-to-date, engaged and entertained. But with the Paralympics starting in a fortnight, it will be interesting to see if it receives the same rapturous reception as the Olympics, or even reach similar peaks in TPM’s on Twitter-verse.

Regardless, I’m looking forward to it – Let the games commence!

@nahidur

Pee Controlled Game and Advertiser

What are your thoughts on this worlds first pee-controlled game which doubles up as an advertiser?

This puts Lord Sugar's Amscreen to shame!

My year of events!

Throughout the past few months I’ve attended so many events. I’ve been meaning to blog about each of them but haven’t had a chance to write it all up. So I thought I’d do an events all-in-one blog post and update it regularly.

Taylor Bennett Foundation meet-up

The first event of the year for me was the Taylor Bennett Foundation meet-up. The Taylor Bennett Foundation is an award-winning PR training and internship programme exists to encourage BAME graduates to pursue a career in PR. As an alumnus of the foundation, I go along to meet with interns old and new and get a chance to network with partnered companies and media. These meet-ups happen every 2-3 months and is a brilliant opportunity to share experiences in the PR world and network.

CIPR Social media conference

I also had the privilege of attending CIPR’s social media conference in April. At the event, several speakers from the PR and related industries like journalism came together to share their thoughts on social media’s prowess and its increasing influence on people.

The day as whole was really interesting and was good to hear best practices and examples of companies using social media effectively. However, there was one issue that every attendee was looking for an answer to – how do you measure actual sentiment? Unfortunately the question remained unanswered.

Nonetheless, CIPR’s social media conference highlighted that it’s not only people that need to adopt social media but businesses in order to remain open and competitive in their field.

IPv6: What’s all the fuss about?

On Monday (24^th October 2011) my colleague Austin and I went to an interesting event on basically the future of the Internet. The event was titled “IPv6 What’s all the fuss about?” and was organised by the Chartered Institute of IT. The orchestrator of the key note speech was Nigel Titley, Chairman of the Executive Board, RIPE NCC.

The event was really interesting and it highlighted the importance of IPv6 adoption and how it would impact us on a day-to-day. Nigel covered most of the key issues around IPv6 adoption, and even went back to the basics of how the issue came about.

If you want know more about IPv6, then do check out the IPv6 Act Now website or follow the event hashtag.

Post initially posted on CommsTalk Blog...

London 2012 Won’t Follow Beijing’s Lead on Net Addresses

In 2008 the Chinese government boasted proudly of the way it was using IPv6 for its network infrastructure. It was the biggest test and showcase for the technology that provides an almost limitless number of Internet addresses. Addresses using the older IPv4 are fast running out.
Campaigners had hoped London 2012 would follow Beijing’s lead, but a spokesperson for the organizers said:

“Such is the scale of technology required for Olympic Games, it tends to be tried and tested. We work closely with our technology partners to ensure that we have operational certainty across the project. As such we will be using IPv4 for London 2012.”