Filed under: Ping.fm update by Neoco | Tags: BBC, computer, digital marketing, GPS, laptop, mobile, Motorola, MP3, multimedia, Nokia, phone, Samsung, Symbian
According to the BBC, sales of smart phones are predicted to overtake those of laptops within the next 18 months, “as the mobile phone completes its transition from voice communications device to multimedia computer”.
And I can’t see any reason why not, as companies like Nokia, Samsung and Motorola have finally began to convince us that the idea of having a multimedia computer in your pocket, is possible.
“Converged devices are always with you and always connected,” said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia chief executive at last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Nokia predict that they will sell 35 million GPS-enabled phones this year, as personal navigation becomes the latest feature to be assimilated into the mobile phone.
Nigel Clifford, chief executive of Symbian, said: “All of those single use devices – MP3 players, digital camera, GPS – are collapsing onto the phone. We are going past the point where this was a phone with a few other things”.
For the full BBC article, visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7250465.stm
Filed under: Coffee Break | Tags: ancestors, british, crime, digital marketing, history, Old Bailey, online, published
The details of 200,000 Old Bailey trials have been published online, naming and shaming many of history’s black sheep…So now you can easily search for your ancestors and see what trouble they got up to!
Records covering trials between 1674 and 1913 have been published and the site claims to provide access to “the largest single source of searchable information about ordinary British lives and behaviour ever published”.
Read a full article on this at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7361701.stm
Filed under: News | Tags: ad, blog, community, craigslist, digital marketing, Ebay, legal action, site, sue
eBay are suing community ad site Craigslist to “safeguard its four year financial investment”. eBay believe that Craigslist’s executives Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster have adopted unspecified measures that have disadvantaged eBay and unfairly diluted their “economic interest by more than 10%”. EBay’s general counsel Mike Jacobson has said “since negotiating our investment with Craigslist’s board in 2004, we have acted openly and in good faith as a minority shareholder, so we were surprised by these recent unilateral actions”.
In response, Craigslist have said in their company blog that they are surprised and disappointed by eBay’s “unfounded allegations”, and that eBay’s legal action “came to us out of the blue”. It said “we have always treated eBay fairly as a minority shareholder, and plan to continue doing so, despite this unfortunate development. EBay has absolutely no reason to feel threatened – unless a hostile takeover of Craigslist, or the sale of eBay’s stake in Craigslist to an unfriendly party, is their ultimate goal.”
Read the full article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7362221.stm
