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I cannot remember laughing so hard at something as this.
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Rory on the – for me, unresolved – 3G problem: “Then along came Apple, with the iPhone and the Apps Store, and both O2 in the UK and AT&T in the US suddenly found customers did want to update their Facebook, check out sports results, or play online games on the move. And if a lot of them were all doing it in one cell, the result was a traffic jam.”
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“freelancer Patrick Smith has some additional thoughts from Brock on the role journalism schools can play in news publishing.”
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This is a really good idea: daily digest of what analysts are saying. Maybe someone should do that in the UK….
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“Five months after it was commissioned by a government advisory to research non-digital piracy, a consulting group has concluded – we need more research.” Funny how researchers/quangos recommend more quango-fied research isn’t it.
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“UK satcaster BSkyB is poised to make paid-for top-flight soccer highlights available via an update to one of its popular iPhone apps ahead of their broadcast on the BBC’s Match of the Day.” Poised? You mean it was announced last year?
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“Chris Herbert, the editor of the magazine, stood by his story. He said: “We don’t make quotes up. If it is in the story he said it, and there will be a shorthand note.” This is why journalists record everything. It’s a strange fetishistic attraction to inky shorthand that causes legal headaches.
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Apple effectively says: “Don’t write about that thing that we definitely aren’t confirming, but please don’t write about it”
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Reuters: “Shares in Daily Mail & General Trust gain 5.4 percent, topping the FTSE 250 leaders board after both Credit Suisse and UBS raise ratings for the newspapers publisher.” DMGT = less reliant on poisonous print than any other UK competitor. Result? Market says ‘yes please’
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Alphavilla plays up the importance of corporate bonds in a still-debt-shy market. Eg Virgin Media’s £500 bond is now TRIPLED to £1.5 billion. It gets Virgin out of a refinancing pickle but, what will the market look like at pay-back time?
