Archive for iphone

The lost Apple iPhone: tracking technology not so good after all?

1 September 2011 ,
There were a few cynical groans in tech and PR circles this morning with the news that an Apple employee had lost a secret test copy of the new iPhone when out drinking (to which I was able to add my own exclusive). It’s not the first time this has happened and hence the speculation [...]
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Is your target audience still using fifteenth century technology heavily?

11 December 2010 , ,
A few days ago Cory Doctorow had fun digging out an old clip of HG Wells talking about the imminent demise of newspapers – in 1943. As Doctorow went on to point out, HG Wells’s error was a common one – to think that new technologies would fully replace old technologies. In fact, very few technical [...]

Social networking in the UK: Facebook soars, Bebo and MySpace drop

26 October 2009 , , , , ,
Cross-posted from the Mandate blog: The latest Ofcom survey of internet usage is packed full of useful statistics and – even more helpfully – they are based on (a) proper research and (b) people in the UK. Many of the figures quoted are American – or American masquerading as global – and not infrequently are [...]

Apple blocking Spotify on the iPhone will be good news – for Spotify

11 August 2009 , ,
Superficially the story is straightforward. Spotify has a popular music service. It wants to grow further. It produces an iPhone application. It hopes Apple approves it for inclusion in the App Store, rather than blocking it. If Apple doesn’t approve it, that’s bad news for Spotify. Right? Wrong. Wrong, because Spotify has already banked one [...]