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Vandalism

Have smartphones caused a reduction in vandalism?

The Crime Survey of England and Wales has shown that incidents of vandalism have fallen by 37% since March 2007, which may be a surprise to anyone who was caught up in any of the Summer 2011 riots. If you’ve been a recent victim of such anti-social behaviour, you might not believe your eyes that the situation appears to be improving. But why is it?

Broken iPhone

SMS is dead! Long live the text message!

It seems every few months a new report or article is published proclaiming that text messaging (SMS) is dead. This is usually accompanied with a review or some blatant advertising for the latest and greatest Instant Messaging (IM) mobile application, iMessage being one of the more recent phenomena from 2011.