Android Handsets Hit Delay
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 23 June 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Business, Mobile, Cellular
Google’s constant tinkering with the OS causes handset delay.
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YouTube Screening Room: ‘Serious’ Content For YouTube
Posted by Simon Perry on 20 June 2008 | Tagged as: YouTube, Business, Distribution, Content, Content Deals
YouTube Screening Room has officially been released following a couple of rumours knocking around about it.
YouTube’s stated intention is that they want to give the opportunity to the “tens of thousands of films” that are produced every year to be seen by a wider audience.
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British Music Rights Survey On Teenage Kicks
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 June 2008 | Tagged as: Business, UK, Music
It looks like someone in the music business has taken a hard swallow and commissioned some research giving the true view of UK 14-24 year olds. Potentially refreshing.
Not only that, but it appears that they’ve swallowed even harder and decided to actually listen to what those surveyed are actually saying - perhaps a first in […]
Warner Music And Last.FM Part Company: Brief Analysis
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 June 2008 | Tagged as: Shift to Web delivery, Content Deals, Music
Friday saw the news that Warner Music and Last.FM had ended their arrangement to have Warner’s music play on the free on-demand music streaming service that Last.FM runs.
It’s unclear if Warner’s dropped Last.FM or if Warner’s were themselves dropped.
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Paul McGuinness Of U2 Fame: Our Comments
Posted by Simon Perry on 6 June 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Music
Paul McGuinness, the manager of U2, has been speaking at a conference, Music Matters conference in Asia, addressing what he thinks is wrong with the music business and who is to blame for its reduced ability to make money.
Broadly — to save you having to read the 12 pages of it — he thinks the […]
UK Online Advertising Second Biggest In Europe
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 4 June 2008 | Tagged as: Business, UK, Advertising
New advertising formats see UK online ad spending soaring.
Smartphones “Bigger Security Risk” Than Lappies
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 3 June 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Security
Survey finds that 60% of business laptops remain unencrypted.
Woolies Says Goodbye To CD Singles
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 27 May 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Content, UK
CD singles market in terminal decline as digital takes over.
East Africa gets Mobile Phone Banking Deal
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 May 2008 | Tagged as: Africa, Banking, Business, Wireless, Cellular
Monitise, a company that provides banking and payment service via mobile phones, has announced that it will be offering their services in East Africa.
Much has been written previously about how mobile phones provide the communications — spoken and Internet — to many countries where their physical, in-ground infrastructure falls far behind their wireless links.
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Pace Get 2nd Gen BT Vision Box Deal
Posted by Simon Perry on 14 May 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Business, BT, PVR/DVR, IPTV, HDTV
Pace, UK-based creators of digital TV products, has won a new contract to supply BT with their next-generation V-box, for use on the BT Vision service.
Previously Philips supplied the V-box (that runs the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV middleware) but following Pace’s purchase of Philips Set Top Box (STB) division, it’s natural — but we imagine pleasing […]
