Posted by Simon Perry on 22 August 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Apple, UK, Events, Industry Trends
We know that lots of you, dear reader, are into Digital Design. Well, NMK have brought an event to our attention that we think you could well enjoy.
Digital Design Day is part of the London Design Festival and will be running the full day of 17th September 2008 at the Southbank Centre in London.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 19 August 2008 | Tagged as: Orange, UK, Broadband, Mobile, Networking
The battle for Mobile Broadband is heating up in the UK.
At the weekend, Orange launched their latest offer to try and entice UK must-have-data freaks onto their network.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 15 August 2008 | Tagged as: Platforms, Business, Investments, News Corp., Copy Protection
NDS, a DRM, PVR and interactive TV company, will be taken private, away from its current public listed status.
News Corporation currently owns approximately 72% of the equity and a stunning 96% of the voting power of NDS through its ownership of 100% of the outstanding Series B shares.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 14 August 2008 | Tagged as: YouTube, Services, Video Services, Google
A couple of months back one of the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen, somewhat excitedly announced on video with pretty blogger, Sarah Meyers, that YouTube would be offering a Live version.
There was considerable amount of excitement around this, and a fair amount of terror in the companies that are in the live video space currently.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 13 August 2008 | Tagged as: Location-based services, Services, Geographic, Yahoo
Yahoo has finally released Fire Eagle, their much-discussed location service.
Bloggers have been banging on about it for ages, which became all the more heightened after it was shown to the delegates by Tom Coates at eTech in March.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 11 August 2008 | Tagged as: Skype, UK
What do you do if you’ve sold your business for X billion dollars?
Well if you’re Niklas Zennstrom of Skype and Kazza fame, you share a passion with other Tech billionaires, like Oracle’s Larry Ellison - Sailing.
If you’ve got large bundles of cash in your pockets, you don’t just get any old boat and hope that […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 August 2008 | Tagged as: 3G, Apple, Mobile, Wireless, Cellular, Software
Steve Jobs has been chatting to the Wall Street Journal about the iPhone, its App Store and the ‘Kill Switch.’
Jobs confirmed that an impressive 60 million iPhone applications have been downloaded in the first month of the iPhone App Store.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 8 August 2008 | Tagged as: Gadgets, Services, Apple, Mobile, Cellular, Software
Given the media’s initial blind obsession with the iPhone, writing about it as if it were the third-coming, it’s not surprising that, true to form, they’re now getting overheated with a possible bad news story.
It centers on an apparent “Kill Switch,” that _might_ be used to kill applications on the iPhone.
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Posted by Mike Slocombe on 6 August 2008 | Tagged as: UK, Google, Search
Search engine giant continues to eat up UK market share.
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 […]
