telecommunications
Giga OM and Iotum take a look at “presence,” one of the supposed killer apps in the next generation of mobile technologies.
Presence will drive a fundamental change in the way that communications networks are used today. Today, callers have no way of knowing whether the party being called is available, or busy, or would consider […]
“Wow,” about sums it up. I don’t think anyone predicted these features. This thing is so far ahead of everything else on the market. The iPhone:
Just look at that UI!
New research highlights youth attitudes towards text messaging:
College and high-school students find telephone calls unfulfilling and e-mail messages a bit cold. But they view text messaging and instant messaging as comfortable, authentic forms of communication, according to a pair of researchers at San Jose State University.
From the San Francisco Chronicle via the Chronicle of Higher […]
Amazing. Of course it’s all over the net, but here is Google’s press release announcing the purchase of Youtube.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for […]
Since downloading the new iTunes 7 update, I’ve started browsing through the podcast directory. I stumbled across the BBC’s documentary (4-part podcast) from August, titled “The Communications Revolution:”
Part 1: Communications: Transformation of business and leisure, and the structure of family and society? (mp3)
Part 2: […]
The Economist questions the economic sustainability of youtube.
“STARBUCKS has comfy chairs, but they don’t charge people for sitting in them,” says Tom McInerney, the boss and co-founder of Guba, an internet-video company. Instead, he explains, Starbucks provides a comfortable environment, at considerable expense, so that people will buy overpriced coffee. That, in essence, is the […]
“Newspapers are making progress with the internet, but most are still too timid, defensive or high-minded”
The Economist offers an excellent special report on newspapers and emerging media this week. Fortunately, most of it can be accessed for free online. It highlights many of the problems publishers are worried about, and suggests possible solutions, […]
Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 year olds (pdf)
A national Kaiser Family Foundation survey found children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using “new media” like computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on the time they spend with “old” media like TV, print and music. Instead, because […]
A visual representation (flash) of what’s currently playing on US radio stations.
from plasticbag.org
The Wall Street Journal reports on the queries of AOL customers:
Last week, AOL released a trove of what it thought were anonymous Web-search data from 650,000 of its customers. While intending to help researchers, AOL instead set off a privacy controversy because some of the users could, in fact, be tracked down.
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