A few years ago you might have stopped at a travel agency, picked up a handful of leaflets, checked the cheapest airfare prices and sourced out the pretty consultant on the best accommodation options. Then you would have called back a few days later to book.

Travel agents were everywhere, their windows plastered with pictures of palm-fringed beaches and picturesque Mediterranean villas, luring you with

Recently launched online service Hunch, wants to help people make up their minds about anything from dumping a boyfriend to choosing a car or getting a piercing.

Launched by Flickr co-founder Caterina Flake and a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates, Hunch.com uses machine - learning to guide people to decisions that seem to suit them.

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Microsoft has adjusted its newly-launched Bing search engine to make it easier to filter out porn.

For adults, only images and video will be served from a separate domain, explicit.bing.net, so that content can easily be excluded from Bing search results. This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block

The truth of the matter of technological development is - people aren't going to abandon broadband and go back to dial up. It is a non- reversible one way development destined to make our lives even more faster than previously imagined.

There has been a significant shift in attitude in terms of the relationship between businesses and their customers over the years. We at Carver Media have noticed this.