Tuesday, November 3, 2009
The Golden Age of Infinite Music
We all know what the alleged future of music will look like.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Has MySpace Lost Its Cool?
I’m not entirely sure that MySpace co-founder Chis DeWolfe enjoyed our encounter at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. I spent half an hour suggesting that MySpace just wasn’t cool anymore. To his credit, he didn’t lose his cool–just kept on insisting I was wrong to suggest that he’d been left standing by Facebook.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Alarm Raised on Teenage Hackers
Computer security professionals say many net forums are populated by teenagers swapping credit card numbers, phishing kits and hacking tips. The poor technical skills of many young hackers means they are very likely to get caught and arrested, they say.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Storm Warning for Cloud Computing
My friend Simon is one of those net entrepreneurs with the attention to detail it takes to have an idea and turn it into an effective company. He’s currently on his second job search service, and it seems to be going very well.
One reason for the success may be that Simon has embraced the network age with a dedication that most of us can only wonder at. He uses a range of productivity tools, scheduling services and collaborative systems to manage both his personal and professional life, and once confessed to me that he had “outsourced his memory” to Microsoft Outlook and its calendar service.
Monday, May 26, 2008
TV Becomes Social Again
Remember the term “water cooler moment”–in which a TV show generated a social buzz and was talked about by colleagues at work after broadcast? It seems to me that there are fewer and fewer water cooler moments, in part because television has become less of a cohesively social experience.
PVRS, video on demand, BitTorrent, digital download stores, DVD box sets have all helped to fracture the common viewing experience. We tend to watch our TV content out of sync with one another these days.
Friday, May 16, 2008
“$100 Laptop” Embraces Windows XP
Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the “$100 laptop” to make Windows available on the machines. The move was prompted by countries which demanded the operating system before placing an order.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Google–About to Overtake ITV
It’s easy to forget that as well as being an extraordinarily innovative firm, Google is also rapidly becoming Britain’s biggest advertising business. The latest figures–released on Thursday evening–show how rapidly it is growing in the U.K., earning $803 million (about £407m) in the first three months of 2008, about 40% up on a year ago. Let’s put that into context. Last year, ITV’s net advertising revenue was £1.5 billion. So, even if you just multiply Google’s earnings by four and assume no further growth this year, Britain’s biggest commercial television business–the original “license to print money”–is about to be overtaken by an American upstart which only arrived in the U.K. in 2001.
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