Jupiter Research has come up with figures [BBC] suggesting that only 20% of the tracks found on an iPod will have been bought from iTunes. The conclusion: “Digital music purchasing has not yet fundamentally changed the way in which digital music customers buy music.” Paul Thurrot reckons that for Apple things are the other way… Read More »
Some links and stories worth a look: Microsoft releases details of Zune, a sort of social networking iPod. More details here. Yahoo! releases its new email service, which looks nice but only highlights how full of Nigerian email scams my Yahoo! account has become. Talking of which, Charles Arthur from The Guardian is calling for… Read More »
A good piece that explores the point I was trying to make earlier about the commuter element in cellphone service adoption, from Reuters’ Sachi Izumi (via textually.org). Someone needs to look closely at the link between flat free pricing for mobile browsing and m-commerce (yeah I don’t like calling it that either, but it’s there… Read More »
The AP picture that accompanies this OPEC story says it all: Journalists still don’t seem to have switched from cassette recorders to digital, even though prices have dropped amazingly in the past five years and features risen impressively. (I’ve just bought an Olympus DS-20 for a quarter of the price I paid for a DM-1… Read More »
Another day, another new Nokia, but I think the N93 might be the shape of things to come. The clamshell swivel has several positions, but this one I think offers a way forward for all smartphones: More pix here. Perhaps other manufacturers have already adopted the manoeuver conveyed above; apologies if I missed it. But… Read More »