AT&T's era of exclusivity may be ending as Apple will reportedly be looking at additional carrier partners in the US in 2010, a move that makes good sense if it wants to increase market share.
When you look at the Web's influence on media companies over the last 15 years, it's clear, whether we are talking about news, music or television programs, as the distribution channel has shifted to the web, these media companies have struggled mightily to adapt.
Apple is a complex organizations and it showed off its multiple personalities again this week, approving an iTunes competitor for the App Store, while issuing a take-down notice for a Snow Leopard review.
This week I interviewed social media expert Chris Brogan about his recently released book, Trust Agents. He discusses his new book, social media tools and how businesses can benefit from using them.
European publishers join the rush to blame Google for the publishing
industry's problems, but Google Europe Chief Philipp Schindler suggests
that the industry needs to look at themselves.
I wrote a new article for semanticweb.com today on the new partnership between Wolfram|Alpha and financial data services provider Xignite to give Wolfram|Alpha users access to real-time financial data. The implications are huge because it means instead of using a database of information populated by Wolfram|Alpha, they now have access to other types of data, and Wolfram|Alpha suggest this is just the beginning.
Sony surprised the eBook market last week when it announced it was adopting the open ePub standard. Could this move pressure Amazon to follow suit or is it too big to care?
Surprisingly, CD sales are still much stronger than online sales, but they should pull even by the end of next year. This post talks about some proactive steps record companies could take to staunch the bleeding.