ITV and FremantleMedia have launched two new ways for viewers to vote for their favourite Britain’s Got Talent contestants via their mobile phone.

Email as a marketing tool is quite possibly the most powerful one in the box, and used properly can generate a substantial increase in business. Kara Trivunovic, vice president of agency services, StrongMail, offers a guide capitalising on cross and up-sell techniques in email marketing.

O2 has partnered with Costa coffee shops to offer free wi-fi to its customers, as the mobile network operator looks to expand its broadband services.

Smartphones will outperform the overall market for mobile phones, growing by 24.9% to reach 1.7 billion units by 2017, according to Ovum.

TV App Agency has won an award for ‘Outstanding Technology Innovation’ at last week’s Connected TV Awards 2012 for its ‘develop once’ / ‘deploy to many’ cross platform TV app compiler.

As Facebook ads grow in popularity amongst big brands, are advertisers getting better exposure for their money than they would on other mediums? This infographic from the Wall Street Journal takes a look at what money invested in a facebook Sponsored Story could buy you instead…

Spotify rival Rdio has launched its popular online music streaming service in the UK and France.

Apple is the biggest company trading on the US stock market, with its 2011 sales generating $128bn (higher than 160 different nations’ gross domestic products) according to this new infographic.

Cloud service Present.me has launched this month, offering an online presentation platform that combines synchronised content and video, viewable on-demand.

Ahead of the launch of the new smartphone Samsung Galaxy S3 Hi-Tech@Mail.Ru conducted a survey of its readers revealing that Russians are looking forward to the Galaxy S3 ahead of the iPhone 5.