Mobile Internet: Ad Revenues And Mobile Web Growth
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 15 January 2008 | Tagged as: Revenue raising, Services, Business, Mobile, Industry Trends
Revenues set to rise but text still rules the data waves
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UK IT Usage Rivals Airlines In Carbon Emissions
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 December 2007 | Tagged as: Environmental, Business, UK, Industry Trends
There’s been many stories in the newspapers about how bad the aviation sector is at producing emissions harmful to the environment.
A survey carried about by Global Action Plan, an environmental charity, has indicated that the IT sector in the UK has a similar carbon footprint to the aviation industry. As the usage of computing rapidly […]
Is The TV Content Industry Finally Starting To Wake Up?
Posted by Simon Perry on 30 November 2007 | Tagged as: Revenue raising, Business, Shift to Web delivery, Content Deals, Industry Trends
MTV Networks Chairman and Chief Executive Judy McGrath said of Web distributed content and TV content, at the Reuters Media Summit, “One does not diminish the other by any stretch of the imagination. That is kind of our hat trick.” Wow what a change around that is in the TV world.
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Broadband Soars As Dial Up Dies
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 28 November 2007 | Tagged as: UK, Broadband, Industry Trends
Rapid rise of broadband connections spells doom for dial up.
Firefox Mobile On The Way
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 October 2007 | Tagged as: Mobile, Software, Industry Trends
There are many fans all over the world for the Firefox Web browser. It runs on all desktop computing platforms and is a serious rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Mozilla Corp, the organisation behind the Firefox browser has long been asked when they will get themselves in gear with a Browser for mobile devices.
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Charlatans To Give Away Their Single
Posted by Simon Perry on 4 October 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Shift to Web delivery, UK, Music, Industry Trends
The Charlatans plan to give away their forthcoming single.
If the news from earlier in the week about Radiohead letting their fans choose how much to pay for their next album didn’t make you sit up, you could well spit out your coffee when you hear what Alan McGee and the Charlatans are planning to do.
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CampaignTV Launched By Labour Friends
Posted by Simon Perry on 3 October 2007 | Tagged as: Content, Political, Government, Shift to Web delivery, UK, Industry Trends
With rumours of a possible election in the UK, we wonder if there’s a co-incidence that one of the Labour parties media strategist has launched a Web site called CampaignTV.org, whose major focus is on politics.
Don’t expect too much balance in the politics on offer, but they’re not hiding that away either. In their words, […]
Joost Goes Public: Comment
Posted by Simon Perry on 2 October 2007 | Tagged as: Services, Video Services, Shift to Web delivery, Industry Trends
We’ve been watching Joost since the days it was The Venice Project.
Well yesterday it left its invite-only beta stage, opening up for all to sign up. Given the large interest we saw in people wanting to sign up for the Joost beta when we offered it, we imagine that the take-up will be strong.
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Radiohead Tell Fans: “Pay What You Want”
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 1 October 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Revenue raising, Shift to Web delivery, UK, Music, Industry Trends
Oxford’s superstars break new ground with self released album.
BBC Vision Goes Multi-Platform. For Real This time?
Posted by Simon Perry on 28 September 2007 | Tagged as: UK, Content, BBC, Cross platform, Mobile, Industry Trends
The BBC is to bolster multi-platform commissioning. “Again?” I hear you cry.
Do you remember back as far as 2002 when Ashley Highfield, then Head on New Media at the BBC, was telling everyone who would listen … or write about him … that the BBC wouldn’t commission any new programmes unless they had an […]
