There's a story over at The Register covering an article in a Belgian newspaper, De Tijd, which suggests that Apple is determined to get its money from the media companies, one way or another. Basically, those media companies that offer a free app to subscribers of their print editions are going to be forced to discontinue the practice and that all subscriptions
Glasgow-based artist Derek Bowers was commissioned by Pantone to create a 2011 calendar and he's designed this most excellent circular calendar based on the colour wheel, using images from all round the world. In his words, "My brief was to create a calendar for Pantone, the world-renowned authority on colour. The main aim for me was to make this calendar
Sophos has published its quarterly report into spam and the USA remains top of the league for spam-relaying, being responsible for nearly 19% of all spam messages. India follows with a little under 7% and then Brazil, Russia and the UK finishing the top 5 on 4.5%. The vast majority of spam does not come directly from spammers' servers, but
The UK's Guardian newspaper published a very interesting article on Monday about the iPad and media publishing. In short, the iPad is not generating the revenues that it was expected to and subscriptions are slumping. However, many publishers are hopeful for the long-term. The story quotes figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which particularly cites Condé Nast's Wired. On
Every year Vitrue announces the top 100 social brands to show which ones are grabbing mindshare. It does this by analysing online conversations across social networks, blogs, micro-blogs, photo and video sharing sites. Basically it captures what people are talking about on-line. It's a pretty good bellwether for the movers and shakers and unsurprisingly, consumer electronics come out very well.Of
As the Boy Scouts would say, "Be prepared" and the latest additions to Etón Corporation's American Red Cross TurboDyne series are a good step forwards for everyone. Showcasing at CES, the Road Torq, Axis and Rover are all aimed at helping during those unexpected emergencies. All the devices are self-powered through a hand crank which charges up the internal battery,