Trains, pains and sodomobiles

I woke up this morning to this story on the BBC Breakfast television News about the UK having the highest rail fares in Europe, which is no great surprise to anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the continent. At one point during the report it cut to one of those vox pops with [...]

MoMail…email everywhere

The future is here and the future is MoMail. Not heard of it yet? It’s a matter of time. Momail is simple, free downloadable software that turns any mobile into one that can receive and deal with email. A mobile email account that levels the playing field between those with crackberrys and those without. Compatible [...]

Bizmo – cool gizmo

So no longer are we just consumers and listeners of music, we can now make money from our personal preferences and favourite artists. Bizmo is a new widget that is easy to cut and paste in blogs and social networking sites that allows people to buy tickets for gigs. They get an instant text [...]

Google to bring the pain to Facebook & Co.

As discussed within these pages over two weeks ago it seemed a little nonsensical that Google should be asked to value Facebook at $18 billion when the social network is making relatively little cash. It seems that Google quickly came to same conclusion and have acted fast to put together a social networking platform that [...]

PS3 winding up/down to ‘digital media center’ status. Exciting times ahead?

Last Thursday news came through that Sony was selling its PS3 chips to rival Toshiba and is no longer interested in developing the technology further. Yesterday we heard that PlayStation is currently begging games developers not to forget about its console (having previously taken a very arrogant stance towards them), and now it’s being reported [...]

Facebook and MySpace to hit peak by around 2009

Last Wednesday I wrote on these pages that sooner or later Facebook was probably in for a  rude awakening due to the inevitable drop in users once everyone got bored. Quite frankly, the interface is so dull I immediately got bored first time I looked at it and quickly left, forgot all about it and [...]

Music industry continues to do stupid shit

Due to upcoming changes in the UK chart rules, the 29th of October will see the widespread selling of singles on USB keys. This move according to Brian Rose (Commercial Director at Universal UK) is aimed at “12 to 24 year olds, who no longer believe that the CD is as cool as it used [...]

HMV finally begins to get a clue with games zone

HMV is launching its new gamin center at one of its flagship stores in Edinburgh. It will turn itself into an old fashioned arcade where you can hang out with your mates, smoke round the corner and get the older lads to buy cider for you.
In all seriousness this decision makes perfect commercial sense -  [...]

Napster to drop stand alone app for web based store

Napster U.S. announced yesterday that it plans to drop it’s standalone application subscription model in favour of a new web based subscription model.
Christopher Allen, Chief Operating Officer at Napster, said, “With this new platform, Napster can easily be integrated into consumer electronics devices or integrated into other Web sites such as social networking sites.”
What this [...]

Skype/MySpace reality check: Facebook next?

The whole MySpace/Skype get together as reported in your national newspaper makes total commercial sense for both parties. What I find most interesting about this story however is is not how each side is going exploit the new opportunities now afforded to them in linking up but the wider picture that’s being presented, namely [...]