Posted by Simon Perry on 2 May 2008 | Tagged as: Content Deals, Music
Thom Yorke has said that the ‘In rainbows’ album that surprised the world — and frankly gave them a near incalculable amount of free publicity — was a ‘one off.’
Yorke went on to say “I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation,” which we read as, our contract came to an end […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 30 April 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Web 2.0, UK
Despite endless security scares, Brits are flocking to online banking sites.
Posted by Simon Perry on 23 April 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Content Deals
Here in London today, Archos has announced an expansion of content that’s available through the Archos Content Portal and Media Club - alongside three other announcements today (more later, including podcasts).
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Posted by Simon Perry on 22 April 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Investments, Mobile, Cellular
ZYB, a service that lets you backup your mobile phone contact and access them on the Web, has branched out and made a company purchase.
They’ve bought a Danish mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 21 April 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Google
Moneybags search engine giant valued at £43bn.
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 April 2008 | Tagged as: Business, Google, Financials
Google’s Q1 2008 results have been published with their income up 42% compared with Q1 2007.
The result include the purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick, although Google state that this was “immaterial to income.”
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Posted by Simon Perry on 16 April 2008 | Tagged as: Revenue raising, Apple, UK
The price of the UK 8GB iPhone has dropped by £100 to £169.
O2 — the network with the exclusive right to sell it in the UK — and Carphone Warehouse, have announced that this will be until 1 June.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 11 April 2008 | Tagged as: Business, UK, Educational, Portable
English computing stalwarts, RM announced that they have the exclusive contract to distribute new HP 2133 Mini-Note PC to schools, colleges and universities in the UK.
A mere day before, HP global had announced the machine would be sold into education.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 10 April 2008 | Tagged as: News Corp., Investments, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo, Advertising, Google, USA, Search
The tussle between Yahoo and Microsoft has gone through a couple of extra rounds of late. We thought we’d bring you up to date with the current state of play.
Back in Feb Microsoft offered Yahoo $44Bn. Yahoo said no thanks.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 9 April 2008 | Tagged as: Revenue raising, Ofcom (UK super-regulator), UK
There’s no shock that Ofcom have today detailed new Broadcasting Code rules intended to control the once-bonanza income generating TV programmes using Premium Rate Services (PRS) phone lines.
The new rules make it clear that both radio and TV programmes cannot, as their primary focus, be encouraging viewers to call in using PRS. The focus should […]
