Posted by: RFM on: October 11, 2009
Smart phones defy slowdown (Canalys press release: r2009081).
These industry-wide figures are being widely reported and they show the enormous leaps Apple have been making in the smartphone market (smartphones being the ones with extended, computer-like functions). They’ve gone from 2.1% of the global market in Q2 2008 to 13.7% of the market in the same [...]
Posted by: RFM on: October 8, 2009
Interesting article in the Guardian about Google News and how difficult it is for Google to link to news, apropos of our discussion on how Google works the other day (that link takes you to an explanation from the Google Guide).
But one returns to that problem about news sites: the rules of journalistic production are [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 30, 2009
Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK – The Guardian.
The milestone marks a watershed for the embattled TV industry, the leading ad medium in the UK for almost half a century. It has taken the internet little more than a decade to become the biggest advertising sector in the UK.
UK advertisers [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 25, 2009
Big Day for the copyfight. Mandelson is going to try to win his David Geffen’s argument today at the BRIT school.
Apart from the profoundly undemocratic nature of Mandelson’s policy-making (reminder: nobody voted for him; nobody voted for Geffen; and his new policy goes against the government’s own published guidelines in the recent Digital Britain report), [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 24, 2009
Via Boingboing:
Hobbit 419.
In view of this, I received your contact through a friend and counselor, an ingenious wizard, who noted you as a Burglar who wants a good job, plenty of Excitement and reasonable Reward. And I and my twelve companions have agreed to give you 10% of the total gold and jewels that the [...]
Posted by: RFM on: September 24, 2009
Via boingnoing, Cory Doctorow’s considered response to the pickle Lily Allen has got herself in with the copyfighters, when she posted an online rant about piracy. Snip:
Allen just hasn’t thought this through. Copyright is problematic for everyone: musicians, fans, bloggers. The absence of clear affirmative rights to make personal copies, to share with your friends, [...]
