Posted by Simon Perry on 2 October 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Business, UK, Music
A new way of getting music has launched in the UK.
As Nokia launches their ‘music with phones’ offering today and T-Mobile/Google offered music for the G1, we’ve heard of another company using music to tempt people towards their product.
Nectar, who provide a loyalty card which gives points against purchases, have launched Nectar Music Store in […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 29 September 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Google, Mobile, Cellular
Search giant adds live traffic feature, Wales and Scotland left out in the cold.
Posted by Steve Kennedy on 25 September 2008 | Tagged as: Banking, Services, UK, Mobile
Many financial institutions have long promised the ability to bank via your mobile, well now it’s a reality, at least for LloydsTSB customers (so presumably also for HBOS customers soon following their recent acquisition).
The mobile banking app is a Java application that should run on most mobile phone, well ones that support Java.
The application […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 18 September 2008 | Tagged as: Content, Video Services, China, HDTV
Tudou, the Shangahi-based video sharing site that is reported to stream over 15 billion minutes of video every day — thrashing YouTube’s 3 Bn — has just launched an HD service.
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Posted by Steve Kennedy on 11 September 2008 | Tagged as: Services, VoIP
All providers of electronic communication networks are governed by the Communications Act 2003 which contains several general conditions and around 21 of these relate to communication networks.
Anyone running a communications network has obligations under the General Conditions and General Condition 4 (GC4) relates to emergency services.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 4 September 2008 | Tagged as: Services
Only yesterday we were talking about how creative people embrace new technology and use them to stimulate us with positive ideas (although some might not approve of the results) … well, there’s two other groups of people who also exploit technology, beyond the ‘normal’ user. They are pornographers and spammers - both driven by money.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 15 August 2008 | Tagged as: Sports, Video Services, USA
When I was in Beijing last year there was a lot of talk of the current Olympic being the first ‘Broadband Olympics.’
It appear that for one US broadcaster, NBC, it’s becoming true.
The number of people accessing their Olympic coverage are highly impressive. After a week of the Games, NBC have had 25 million unique visitors […]
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 14 August 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Social software, UK, Mobile, Cellular
Twitter has decided to drop the distribution of outgoing SMS in the UK, citing escalating cost.
While UK users will still be able to update Twitter using their mobiles, those updates will not be distributed via SMS to their ‘followers.’ Updates will still be visible over the Web, as previously, as well as other, third-party services.
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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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