Microsoft’s Newsbot
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 July 2004 | Tagged as: Content, Web, Content Indexing & Navigation
Microsoft expand their Newsbot trial outside Europe to challenge Google News.
Archive for the 'Web' Category
CinemaNow Secures More Financing From Cisco, Lions Gate and Menlo
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 28 July 2004 | Tagged as: Business, Web
A new round of investments will allow CinemaNow to expand into Europe and Asia.
Microsoft to Sell Slate
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 26 July 2004 | Tagged as: Content, User Generated Content (UGC), Web
After eight years and five million monthly readers, the site is yet to make a decent profit.
BBC May Launch Broadband Service
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 20 July 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Web, Broadband, Educational
Ashley Highfield is committed to overcome the digital divide, and is planning a low-cost broadband service in the same vein as Freeview.
Updated: Graphic Exchange Publishes Interactive Rich Media PDF Edition
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 15 July 2004 | Tagged as: Content, User Generated Content (UGC), Web
The Canadian technology journal Graphic Exchange has published its new edition – consisting of an interactive PDF with video and QuickTime VR. Is it a gimmick or are mainstream electronic publications finally on their way?
eBay Trialling Digital Downloads
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 15 July 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Web, Software
It’s a brave move, but the world’s largest auction site is offering a trial service where purchaser can download digital goods immediately.
Sony Connect: Video Content Within 12 Months
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 14 July 2004 | Tagged as: Distribution, Web, Music, Portable
They own the content, they own the service, they manufacture the devices – it makes sense.
Internet Radio - On a Radio
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 12 July 2004 | Tagged as: Platforms, Web, Wireless, Portable
The key drawback of internet radio stations is that you have to listen to them on a computer – Reciva has developed a WiFi device that lets you listen to them wherever you like around the house, just as if it was a real radio.
BT to Challenge BSkyB with Broadband TV Service; Partners with Microsoft on Web Conferencing
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 12 July 2004 | Tagged as: Business, Web, Broadband, Digital TV
Two bits of big BT news: the UK telecommunications service is planning to offer a new broadband-delivered television service, codenamed Sky Plus Plus and as just partnered with Microsoft to announce a next-generation video/collaboration service.
Tuning In To Visual Radio
Posted by Fraser Lovatt on 8 July 2004 | Tagged as: Platforms, Web, Mobile, Cellular
Nokia has high hopes for a new service that sends images and information to mobile phones, synchronised to a FM radio station.
