Daily Telegraph Makes Mobile Content Free
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 5 August 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Mobile, Cellular
UK broadsheet publisher revamps main site and removes mobile subscription fees.
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Ikea Launches Mobile Service For Shoppers
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 5 August 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Mobile, Cellular
Swedish furniture giant joins the pack of retailers offering phones to customers.
HTC: Android Handsets On Course For Q4 Release
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 4 August 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Business, Mobile, Cellular
Eagerly awaited Android OS handsets look set for 2008 release.
A Tough Week For YouTube
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 August 2008 | Tagged as: YouTube, Revenue raising, Europe, UK, Legal
YouTube will be hiring more lawyers and policy wonks, we suspect, following a week of complaints and legal challenges to the content that is stored on their servers and show to people around the world.
Yesterday the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee published a report (PDF) with included “Risks from the Internet, particularly […]
Facebook & Intel Say I Love You
Posted by Simon Perry on 1 August 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Business, Intel, User Generated Content (UGC)
Looks like Facebook and Intel are happy to tell everyone that they’re going out together - and Intel will be providing their server processors.
Facebook users the world over will be breathing a sign of relief, as frankly it can be a real drag to use it, as it often runs like treacle.
Share and Enjoy:
These icons […]
Google Add Maps to Adverts
Posted by Simon Perry on 30 July 2008 | Tagged as: Google, Advertising
Google are ever-keen to merge their services — but in a subtle way — so you don’t realise that they are taking over the world.
The latest trick along this path that we’ve noticed is them putting Google Maps into Google Text Ads.
Share and Enjoy:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and […]
Google News Generated $100m Year
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 July 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Google, Financials
Marissa Mayer, the acceptable face to Google’s tech dork-ery, appears to have slipped up somewhat.
She let it out that Google News — one of the only areas of Google that doesn’t have advertising on — generates them around $100 million a year in referrals to main Google, from the 47 million people a month looking […]
Cuil Search: Battling for Google’s Crown
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 July 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Google, Search
Get ready …. you’re going to be hearing a lot about a company that most of us have never heard of before.
Google To Buy Up Digg?
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 23 July 2008 | Tagged as: Buy out, Business, Social software, Google, Rumours
Rumours abound that the search giant is set to snap up Digg for $200m.
Vodafone To Buy Back £1Bn Shares
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 July 2008 | Tagged as: Spain, UK, Financials, Vodafone
Vodafone Board feels that their shares are undervalued at present, so to build the share price up again, they’ve just sanctioned the self-purchase of up to £1 Billion of their own shares.
The publication of this decision comes the day after a Vodafone’s shared dropped almost 14% over the day, the largest single-day drop in its […]
