Statistics lauding the growth of the Internet in China have become so commonplace as to inspire yawns, despite breathless press reports of hundreds of millions of Chinese going online and signing up for the ‘net. With the Chinese Government declaring that...
The future of Digital Music is not pay-per-use… the future is choice and convenience. Great news that Apple is making headway with iTunes but the reality is they just do not have the catalog that’s being made available by enthusiasts on free file sharing...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.01/google_pr.html Issue 11.01 – January 2003 Google vs. Evil The world’s biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don’t be evil. Now the geek icon is finding...
I call bullshit. But if it helps the industry to get off the stick and start building compelling services, it might do us some good to puff up these numbers for a while. I think their interpretation of what constitutes a “user” is fairly liberal. -Ian....
Let’s imagine it’s 1999. You’re the CEO of the world’s largest media conglomerate, happily leeching money from your cable news network, your britney spears sound-alike franchise, and a few dozen feature films (among other things) and turning a...
