It’s simple – just look at the stats. After just 5 months on the US market, the iPhone browser is showing a 0.09% browser traffic share. (and that’s with 2.5G not 2G) Compare that with Windows Mobile devices – rating 0.06% of the market, with about 14 times the number of handsets out there. Why? …
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ZenithOptimedia has just made the prediction that global online ad spend will be 11.5% of all media spend in 2010. That’s the average – they reckon online will acccount for over 20% of media spend for Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK, which is already at 15%. However they also predict that most of the …
At least in chunks of the USA. AT&T is getting rid of them by the end of next year. The USA had 2.6m payphones in 1998 and about 1m now. Apparently, the story goes, AT&T (or someone else) commissioned McKinsey years ago to determine the demand for mobile phones. The answer that came back was …
Digg, Reddit, kiwi wannabe Scoop and other news-commentary sites may come and go, but the forefather of them all is Slashdot. Here’s a post that may go somewhere to explaining why Slashdot appeals so much to the nerd community. Bear in mind these are small differences: if you could make a perfect scale model of …
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My cousin here in Perth is launching his mobile application start-up in earnest, with solid VC funding all but finalised from a group that has a successful track record of delivering mobile start-ups to market. The mobile application itself complete, and it is currently being tweaked offshore for the hundreds of phones out there. Now …
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The WSJ – famed conservative organ – says the following about the Kiwi lad Owen Walker interviewed for his alleged internet deeds: The arrests make good headlines, but will have little real impact. Over the last several years, cyber crime has become organized. Arresting the guy who writes the code or who sent the emails …
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Entire blogosphere stunned NEW YORK—In what is being called a seminal moment in Internet history, a rare weekend post by 25-year-old blogger Ben Tiedemann on his website bentiedemanntellsall.blogspot.com rocked the 50 million-member blogosphere this Saturday. The landmark post, which updated nearly every member of the global online community on the shelf Tiedemann was building, was …
Way to go – accuse Trade Me of not following good business practise, then be forced to cringingly back down in the face of overwhelming evidence. I’m not sure how this one played out, but is sure is amusing reading the resulting article. (Auctioneers).. Association chief executive John Ward had said Trade Me did not …
If you cannot afford a Wii for your loved ones, consider a sheep: Oxfam will let you “buy a sheep” as a gift, and they’ll send a postcard with a photo to your lucky gift recipient. They’ll in turn no doubt cherish the valueless photo, knowing that you’ve meanwhile donated the value of that sheep …
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It seems Wii’s are running out of stores in the US as soon as they arrive, as it appears that the Wii is the Christmas item of choice. Actually that makes sense – at US$250 or so the Wii is not too expensive versus the Xbox and PS3. And let’s face it – everyone loves …
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Not bad. eBay’s new site let’s you combine with the masses to vote on popular auctions – and thus drive more traffic to those auctions and eBay in general. It seems good on first appearance – there is the obligatory eye-candy – in this case the classic Web 2.0 rounded corners and Digg-like voting buttons …
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Looks like Telecom’s xtra debacle of a migration to Yahoo! mail is not alone. News Corp owns an ISP called Sky in the UK, and they are migrating customers to the Google Apps. Well trying to. To start with there’s a 10 page pdf on how to change your POP settings over. Slashdot has more …
Via Freakanomics, it seems that for men US$222, and for woman US$94, is the true cost of a packet of cigarettes, when you add in the net preent value of the damage to your health and lifespan. The public sector economist in me says that you should step in when there is a big disparity …
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Very clever
Over the months I’ve occasionally said one or two negative things about a few companies. Did I say occasionally? Sorry – I meant constantly. Their range of responses has been interesting, and piqued the interest of Bullet PR‘s Nicholas O’Flaherty, who used the BNZ series of rants, along with Mauricio’s Slingshot posts as examples, in …
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Lance Wiggs 