A patent filing uncovered by industry blog AppleInsider shows that Apple has plans to develop a series of wireless iTunes 'kiosks' or download hubs where users can load content on their iPods before travelling. The 19-page patent, filed in November 2007, reveals that Apple wants to develop an...
A patent filing uncovered by industry blog AppleInsider shows that Apple has plans to develop a series of wireless iTunes 'kiosks' or download hubs where users can load content on their iPods before travelling. The 19-page patent, filed in November 2007, reveals that Apple wants to develop an...
A little over a month ago, the French composer Maurice Jarre died . Ashes to ashes, etc., but emerging from his death comes a tale not of our frail humanity, but rather a sprawling yarn revealing the impact of the internet, globalisation, Wikipedia and it's role in journalism. Yawn. But bear with...
Ouch, this one hits a little close to home. Reporting media redundancies is becoming a wearisome task, one has to ask where the bottom is? However, news out of the US that the excellent digital website Ars Technica is slashing nearly 50% of its staff is like pouring scalding lemon juice on a salty, open...
The emergence and abundance of free content online over the past number of years has had a profound affect on the way many of us conduct our lives and indeed the way businesses conduct their business. Whether email, newspapers, Skype, Wikipedia, Spotify, etc., how come we're so deserving of all these...
We are entering an age where publishers are becoming "Digital Windsocks", following the audience and the advertising revenue, damaging reputations and quality of content quality in the wake. The role of a journalist is evolving to include a greater understanding of search engine optimisation...
Twitter has been quietly promoting a new service for the business class , known as ExecTweets, a sort of Twitter/LinkedIn mash-up created by conversational ad agency Federated Media, with a healthy dose of sponsorship from Microsoft. ExecTweets itself doesn't seem to be anything worth Tweeting-home...
Heads have been rolling over Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent Twitter snub, when he called the ridiculously popular (too early, too late to call it a phenomenon?) microblogging service a "poor man's email", one he doesn't "get". Personally, I didn't think too much...
Two days after criticising Facebook users for their pathetic protest attempts , the masses, rather emphatically, proved me wrong, creating a big enough stir to get CEO Mark Zuckerberg to stammer and stumble his way out of another privacy issue. Egg on the face actually tastes pretty good, I should be...
I'm still trying to figure out the point of GakiAttack , a Twitter application that allows followers to attack one another in a variety of exotic Japanese-branded methods... but I fear that would be looking too far into its inane simplicity. According to its website, Gaki is: "not only Japanese...
