There was no glitzy press event, not a firework to be seen, or in truth, much noise at all as Google+ was finally announced to the world this week. Led by the company’s senior vp of engineering Vic Gundotra rather than a full-on PR onslaught, Google’s challenger to Facebook’s social networking domination announced itself in [...]

Digital, PR, Social media, Technology |

Last week Chris Huhne advised officials to work with the US to draw up emergency plans against a pending solar storm, including emergency and temporary shut down of the electricity supply, which would alter flight paths to fly at a lower altitude and a possible upgrade of power line transformers. It is expected the class [...]

Comment, Environment, Technology |

Admiral PR has won a major new account that will see the launch a new ground breaking partnership between Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. This innovative partnership of the two outstanding institutions will transform higher education in art and design and will establish a new Institute of Contemporary Art within Northumbria University’s [...]

Admiral News, Education, North East | Baltic, Institute of Contemporary Art, Northumbria University

It shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone that New Media Age has become the latest print publication to fall under the great swinging online axe, but this cull leaves an especially bitter taste in the mouth of those who have worked with the mag. Whilst publisher Centaur must be seen to be safeguarding [...]

Digital, Marketing, Social media |

There has been much chat recently about the end of the dotcom era, with some pretty creative examples of new addresses surfacing. Currently there are just 22 so-called “generic top-level domains”, such as .org, and .info with 250 country-specific endings like .uk, but recent changes to internet regulations mean the floodgates have opened for businesses [...]

Comment, Digital, Social media | domain names, dotcom, ICANN

Despite many misconceptions during my time living and working in London, I’m not a Geordie. In fact, I was born and raised some 40 miles down the A19, but that didn’t stop plenty of people, both professionally and personally, asking me where in Newcastle I was from. The truth of course is that Geordies, Smoggies [...]

Comment, North East | Geordie Shore, MTV, North East Tourism