Nokia’s Legends Telegraph
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Nokia's done something intriguing here in terms of marketing. Not sure where this is going exactly, but it's interesting.
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Nokia's done something intriguing here in terms of marketing. Not sure where this is going exactly, but it's interesting.
Android
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008Exciting times. Right on the heels of our Open Mobile event, the first Google Android handset has been released on T Mobile - the HTC Dream, announced just this morning in NYC. And it's wi-fi (!!!) Now if only I had an in over at HTC, or if a Canadian provider had ...
A Spectre Is Haunting Marillion
Saturday, September 13th, 2008This? Oh yeah, we already did that. & it's true what they say - Reverbnation rules the internets!
Smartphones, Price Points, and Purchasing Power Parity
Saturday, July 19th, 2008"Expensive phones are like an enormous test phase, but budget phones are the true launch pad for a mobile technology." Well said. Read the rest at All About Symbian. It's exciting to see the trickle of smart phone functionality into lower end handsets. Perhaps Nokia's actually been listening to its participatory ...
Why mobile services are not being adopted :: Apptrigger
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Survey results paid for by Texas-based company AppTrigger (the study itself was conducted by LM Research & Marketing) suggest that UK mobile operators could be doing much more to promote adoption of advanced mobile services among their subscribers. The data purportedly support the conclusion that mobile phone operators are largely locked ...
Remake/Remodel
Thursday, September 27th, 2007I hope I haven't used this Roxy Music song as a post title before... While assembling my upcoming conference papers, I've been twiddling with this blog on the side in lieu of regular updates (well, alright, I've also been focused on the dupobs release schedule - you can listen to ...
On Last.fm and royalty payments
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Clear Channel didn't get away with it, and now Last.fm is taking heat for not paying out royalties to independent artists. Last.fm, recently purchased by CBS, is now heating up indie music business blogs with this policy, even though it's been in place since the company started. Why so, asks the ...
20 Years of Scratch Records
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007There's a pretty good yarn in last Wednesday's Vancouver Courier about Scratch Records, an independent music institution in Vancouver for 20 years now. For those of us old enough to recall Scratch's origins as the-little-indie-store-that-could below street level in Gastown, it's great, and inspiring to see this label/shop/distributor steadfastly navigating ...
Last.fm, CBS and the future of music
Friday, June 1st, 2007OK, I was going to take a lot of time and write a measured and considered manifesto, but in the spirit of the impulsivity, that, according to my friend Jason, haunts, and characterizes the blogosphere, I've decided to have a little blurt and then go enjoy the blistering West Coast ...
Jonathan Coulton, repoproduction, and technological determinism
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007A recent story in the New York Times about the Jonathan Coulton phenomenon (remember - he's the guy who posted a song a week on his blog for a year and so launched an infamous viral campaign interacting with fans who made videos for his songs, and who even recorded ...
