Changes to business digitisation brings
It looks like someone in the music business has taken a hard swallow and commissioned some research giving the true view of UK 14-24 year olds. Potentially refreshing.
Not only that, but it appears that they’ve swallowed even harder and decided to actually listen to what those surveyed are actually saying – perhaps a first in the music industry.
Friday saw the news that Warner Music and Last.FM had ended their arrangement to have Warner’s music play on the free on-demand music streaming service that Last.FM runs.
It’s unclear if Warner’s dropped Last.FM or if Warner’s were themselves dropped.
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Paul McGuinness, the manager of U2, has been speaking at a conference, Music Matters conference in Asia, addressing what he thinks is wrong with the music business and who is to blame for its reduced ability to make money.
Broadly — to save you having to read the 12 pages of it — he thinks the ISPs are making loads of money, because people are getting broadband connections to download/share music.
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When it comes to advertising on the web, UK Internet users are the second most valuable audience, according to a survey by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Smartphones have become a bigger security risk for businesses than laptops and mobile storage device according to new research.
Conducted by the ‘endpoint data protection supplier’ (a wha’?) company, Credant Technologies, the survey quizzed 300 senior IT staff and found that 94 per cent of them reckoned that PDA/smartphones presented a bigger security risk than the traditional ultra risky USB mobile storage devices, which registered a 88 per cent risk. (more…)
High Street shoppers will no longer be able to pick up CD singles from Woolworths from August this year, after the chain announced plans to stop selling the format.
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Monitise, a company that provides banking and payment service via mobile phones, has announced that it will be offering their services in East Africa.
Much has been written previously about how mobile phones provide the communications — spoken and Internet — to many countries where their physical, in-ground infrastructure falls far behind their wireless links.
Pace, UK-based creators of digital TV products, has won a new contract to supply BT with their next-generation V-box, for use on the BT Vision service.
Previously Philips supplied the V-box (that runs the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV middleware) but following Pace’s purchase of Philips Set Top Box (STB) division, it’s natural — but we imagine pleasing — that the contact should go to Pace.
Following on from the announcement of the proposed deal between Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse‘s retail operation, we thought this was such a significant deal, we’d carry an analysis piece on it.
Best Buy, the US consumer electronics retail giant, is intending to buy 50% of Carphone Warehouse’s retail operation for £1.1 Billion.
Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse have known each other for a while, as CW have been selling mobile phones in concessions within Best Buy’s shops in the US over the last two years.