Category archives for: Digital

Apple Sued Over iPad Cover

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Share A Colorado man says Apple’s smart cover for the new iPad and the iPad 2 violate his 2005 patent for a “Portable Computer Case.” Aspen resident Jerald Bovino filed a lawsuit in federal court asking Apple and retailer Target to pay royalties for using his technology. The claim is based on US patent 6,977,809 [...]

Social Media Not Necessarily Journalism’s Panacea, News Bosses Say

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Share Tech giants may have their own views on what journalism should become, but some news organisations are questioning what benefits the social vision of future news can really bring at a time when they’re struggling for business survival… Lunch-stealing? “Facebook will make north of $3 billion in advertising this year,” FT.com MD Rob Grimshaw [...]

Punks and Nerds Shall Inherit The Earth….

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Share It has been an interesting month in the entertainment industry. We saw Instragram sell for a billion dollars and the abrupt departure of Brian Dunn as CEO of Best Buy. What’s interesting isn’t Facebook’s need to spend so much money on Instagram, or Mr. Dunn’s personal conduct. It’s the fact that Facebook has a [...]

Survey: Social Media Evidence Soaring In Court Cases

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Share Every week the media seems to offer a new account of some dumb crook who is off to the slammer because he posted about his caper on Facebook. It turns out this phenomenon may be even more widespread than we think. A new survey reports that social media played a significant role in nearly [...]

Apple and RIM hit with patent suit for “drag,” “tap” and “scroll”

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Share A Texas shell company says Apple and others have infringed on technology for basic smartphone gestures like dragging and “double tap.” The patents were issued in 2007 to a Taiwanese maker of touchpad technology. In lawsuits filed this week, a shell called “Touchscreen Gestures” claims devices like the iPhone, the iPad and the Blackberry [...]

Exclusive: MOG Teams Up With Telstra To Launch In Australia

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MOG and Telstra executives provide TMV with exclusive comments on the deal

Spotify sales near $900 million, but reach comes before return

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Share Spotify could take a big fifth investment to reach a $4 billion valuation, even though it doesn’t need to and doesn’t want to exit through the stock market, CEO Daniel Ek says. Here are highlights on its progress from Ek’s Friday interview with Swedish newspaper Dagens Industri: 2011 revenue grew 160 percent to SEK [...]

Why Digital Music Service Consolidation Is Set To Continue

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Share TMV’s Wayne Rosso recently reported on the acquisition of US based streaming music service MOG to HTC owned Beats. Was this a one off or more a signal that consumers are inundated with numerous digital music services and that perhaps there are just too many services fighting for a limited amount of consumers? Business [...]

Interview: Rdio Prepares To Take On Spotify, Deezer Et Al In Europe

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Share Unlimited-music service Rdio concedes it will have to fight incumbents as it prepares to launch across the whole of Europe. “There are some major competitors in Europe,” Rdio’s partnerships and internationalisation VP Scott Bagby tells paidContent. “We are a couple of years behind others in terms of expansion there.” “But Europe is an immediate [...]

The YouTube Decision: What it means and what happens next?

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Share Today’s appeals court ruling in YouTube v. Viacom is the biggest copyright decision of the year and already both sides are proclaiming victory. The case is about much more than the $1 billion that Viacom says it is owed for John Stewart and South Park clips that appeared on YouTube years ago. Here’s a [...]

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