Many questioned my model for digital newspapers. Here’s a few helpful answers Let’s come back to the business model question. My 15 January column featuring a simple model for digital newspapers triggered a number of emails and comments, many questioning my assumptions (my thanks to readers of the Monday Note who take the time to make insightful contributions to the discussion)
Many questioned my model for digital newspapers. Here’s a few helpful answers Let’s come back to the business model question. My 15 January column featuring a simple model for digital newspapers triggered a number of emails and comments, many questioning my assumptions (my thanks to readers of the Monday Note who take the time to make insightful contributions to the discussion)
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Refining the digital newspaper model
Plus Google+ changes naming policy as rivals tell search giant to ‘focus on the user’ A quick burst of 13 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Google nearly doubles lobbying spending in 2011, tops Microsoft | Digital Media – CNET News Google nearly doubled its federal lobbying expenditures last year, surpassing rival Microsoft in dollars doled out to persuade legislators to consider its policy positions.
Plus Google+ changes naming policy as rivals tell search giant to ‘focus on the user’ A quick burst of 13 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Google nearly doubles lobbying spending in 2011, tops Microsoft | Digital Media – CNET News Google nearly doubled its federal lobbying expenditures last year, surpassing rival Microsoft in dollars doled out to persuade legislators to consider its policy positions.
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Boot up: Google nearly doubles US lobbying spend, Nokia Lumia sales ‘top 1m’, and more
That sharp sucking of air you heard at the end of 2010, well, that was the record industry wincing as sales of CDs continued to tumble while digital media sales remained flat . The relieved exhale that you just heard echoing through the atmosphere? That was the collective sigh of executives who just picked up the latest Nielsen report indicating that digital music sales are on the rise again and, for the first time ever, have finally surpassed physical media
That sharp sucking of air you heard at the end of 2010, well, that was the record industry wincing as sales of CDs continued to tumble while digital media sales remained flat . The relieved exhale that you just heard echoing through the atmosphere? That was the collective sigh of executives who just picked up the latest Nielsen report indicating that digital music sales are on the rise again and, for the first time ever, have finally surpassed physical media
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Digital music finally outsells physical media, books look on in alarm
Plus Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL announce display ad deal, and slate magazine on Google+’s possibly fatal error A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 ready, Asus’s Transformer Prime almost ready > > AllThingsD The first quad-core ARM chip, and also includes intriguing roadmap for the Tegra chip. Labeling the Back button > > Neven Mrgan’s tumbl Very good, and surprisingly subtle, usability advice My Nightmare Interviews With Google > > Business Insider See how you would do. Honestly.
Plus Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL announce display ad deal, and slate magazine on Google+’s possibly fatal error A quick burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 ready, Asus’s Transformer Prime almost ready > > AllThingsD The first quad-core ARM chip, and also includes intriguing roadmap for the Tegra chip. Labeling the Back button > > Neven Mrgan’s tumbl Very good, and surprisingly subtle, usability advice My Nightmare Interviews With Google > > Business Insider See how you would do. Honestly.
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Boot up: LG signs patent deal with Intellectual Ventures, nightmare Google interviews, and more
Mark Zuckerberg’s social network is still growing, but tweets have the edge in promoting news content – especially on mobile You hear things about Facebook. You see things. As its audience matures, a subtle shift might be under way
Mark Zuckerberg’s social network is still growing, but tweets have the edge in promoting news content – especially on mobile You hear things about Facebook. You see things. As its audience matures, a subtle shift might be under way
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Does Twitter have more influence than Facebook?
Not everyone wants to entrust their libraries and memories to the likes of Apple, but technology companies hope we’ll join the rush While 2011 has been the year of the smartphone, 2012 looks set to be the beginning of a major push by the likes of Sony, Apple and Samsung to sell their customers families of interconnected screen devices, serving up digitally stored entertainment libraries. People will be urged to throw out their remaining CDs and boxed sets and store music, films, TV shows, even family photo albums on the servers of multinational corporations. Content must now not only be acquired, but there will be fees for the computing space in which to store it.
Not everyone wants to entrust their libraries and memories to the likes of Apple, but technology companies hope we’ll join the rush While 2011 has been the year of the smartphone, 2012 looks set to be the beginning of a major push by the likes of Sony, Apple and Samsung to sell their customers families of interconnected screen devices, serving up digitally stored entertainment libraries. People will be urged to throw out their remaining CDs and boxed sets and store music, films, TV shows, even family photo albums on the servers of multinational corporations. Content must now not only be acquired, but there will be fees for the computing space in which to store it.
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Tech firms are banking on a cloudy future
Executive tells Dublin Web Summit that 350m of social network’s 800m worldwide users are accessing it via smartphone Facebook has admitted that it needs to move faster to keep up with mobile phone demand for the social network. Ethan Beard, Facebook’s director of platform partnerships, told the Dublin Web Summit that 350 million of its 800 million worldwide users are accessing the network through their smartphone. “The world is moving faster to mobile than any of us expected,” he said
Executive tells Dublin Web Summit that 350m of social network’s 800m worldwide users are accessing it via smartphone Facebook has admitted that it needs to move faster to keep up with mobile phone demand for the social network. Ethan Beard, Facebook’s director of platform partnerships, told the Dublin Web Summit that 350 million of its 800 million worldwide users are accessing the network through their smartphone. “The world is moving faster to mobile than any of us expected,” he said
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Facebook mobile users ‘more engaged’
Lisa O’Carroll talks to the Irish founder of tech solutions company PCH at the networking event dubbed ‘Davos for geeks’ Ever wondered why Apple paid so much attention to the look and feel of that little black box to house your iPod, white headphones and USB cable? The answer is that it’s the critical “out of the box” experience that will bond or break its relationship forever with its customer. “There are two moments of truth in e-commerce,” says Liam Casey, the Irish founder of PCH, one of the biggest electronic components supply and delivery companies in Shenzhen, China
Lisa O’Carroll talks to the Irish founder of tech solutions company PCH at the networking event dubbed ‘Davos for geeks’ Ever wondered why Apple paid so much attention to the look and feel of that little black box to house your iPod, white headphones and USB cable? The answer is that it’s the critical “out of the box” experience that will bond or break its relationship forever with its customer. “There are two moments of truth in e-commerce,” says Liam Casey, the Irish founder of PCH, one of the biggest electronic components supply and delivery companies in Shenzhen, China
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F.ounders Dublin 2011: getting the right ‘out of the box’ experience
Live coverage from Nokia World as CEO Stephen Elop unveils new handsets running on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango 10.57am: My colleague Stuart Dredge’s first take on Nokia’s tie-up with Angry birds for its Asha developing world handsets: Angry Birds for Series 40 feature phones is a very big deal for its developer Rovio Mobile – not least to break its brand in markets like India, China and Latin America. It’s easy to get carried away with the company’s figure of 400 million downloads already – actually, there may be just as big an opportunity beyond smartphones. The key thing will be how good the game is when boiled down for less powerful phones
Live coverage from Nokia World as CEO Stephen Elop unveils new handsets running on Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango 10.57am: My colleague Stuart Dredge’s first take on Nokia’s tie-up with Angry birds for its Asha developing world handsets: Angry Birds for Series 40 feature phones is a very big deal for its developer Rovio Mobile – not least to break its brand in markets like India, China and Latin America. It’s easy to get carried away with the company’s figure of 400 million downloads already – actually, there may be just as big an opportunity beyond smartphones. The key thing will be how good the game is when boiled down for less powerful phones
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Nokia Windows Phone launch – live
On Monday 24 October, The Guardian’s Tech Weekly will host the third of its series of Tech City Talks, tackling the biggest issues in the UK’s future digital economy. The topic: innovation, enterprise and East London’s Tech City. The UK’s Digital Economy is banking on a year-old government enterprise initiative in East London called Tech City that leverages the innovation of a grassroots high-tech start-up scene
On Monday 24 October, The Guardian’s Tech Weekly will host the third of its series of Tech City Talks, tackling the biggest issues in the UK’s future digital economy. The topic: innovation, enterprise and East London’s Tech City. The UK’s Digital Economy is banking on a year-old government enterprise initiative in East London called Tech City that leverages the innovation of a grassroots high-tech start-up scene
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