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| RADIOHEAD SAMPLES 'PAY WHAT YOU WANT' BUT WON'T TALK SALES
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
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The music-industry site Music Ally has news of some numbers relating to Radiohead's pioneering ''pay whatever you want'' experiment with their album In Rainbows. The stats come from a speech given by Jane Dyball, head of business affairs for the band's record label, Warner Chappell. The unfortunate part about her comments, however - which were made in honour of the one-year anniversary of the album's release - is that they don't really tell us a heck of a lot that we didn't already know.
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| The sky is not falling on Google
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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If it wasn't already obvious that the stock market has a bad case of nerves, it became abundantly so this week when a Web-traffic report from comScore was released with some unflattering numbers, and investors obliterated more than $15-billion (U.S.) worth of Google's stock market value.
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| BlackBerry outage: Can you say 'we need a backup?'
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
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It's a great feeling to walk around knowing that you can get your e-mails and other data whenever you want, whether it's through a mobile device such as a BlackBerry, or through a Web service like Google's Gmail or Google Calendar, or one of a dozen similar applications.
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| Disharmony and the business of music
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Want a snapshot of an industry in crisis? Take a look at the music business right now. If you can see any signs of a coherent strategy, feel free to e-mail me and let me know what it is.
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| Apple offers steak to back sizzle
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
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As is usually the case following a Steve Jobs' keynote address at Macworld, the Apple universe was in a tizzy this week, buzzing about the new products that Jobs announced - including an ultralight notebook - and whether they were the best thing ever or merely superfantastic.
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| In your Facebook: Ottawa gets feedback
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
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The federal government doesn't seem to have too much time for what some call ''social media'' - Facebook, MySpace, blogs and so on. Access to many such sites is restricted in many government offices, presumably because they are seen as time-wasting devices for the office slacker.
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| Google aims to win by being open
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
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Is being ''open'' a competitive advantage - or could it become one? That's just one of the questions raised by some recent moves that Google and others have made in the technology sector, both on the Web and in the mobile industry.
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| Creepy genius Facebook Beacon
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Fresh from a $240-million (U.S.) cash infusion - from Microsoft, no less - that hung a $15-billion market valuation on the company, social-networking site Facebook recently unveiled some new ''social advertising'' features that it hopes will help justify that astronomical (and so far, theoretical) market value.
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| Method to Microsoft's madness
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MATHEW INGRAM
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
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If you snorted a little coffee out your nose when you read that Microsoft had paid $240-million (U.S.) for a 1.6-per-cent stake in Facebook, don't feel bad. Your reaction was probably shared by a lot of people - perhaps even most people - who haven't been following the rapidly climbing valuation of the social networking site.
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| EBay's bad Skype call - we told you so
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, October 04, 2007
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When Skype - an Internet phone-calling service - was bought by eBay in 2005 for $4.1-billion (U.S.), there was much head-shaking among analysts and other observers of the deal (including yours truly).
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| Apple's PCs make gains, but not in corporate world
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Apple - they're the iPod company, right? And they also make that new iPhone thing. Yes, and they make computers too, even though it sometimes seems as though everyone has forgotten about that part of the company's business.
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| Google may deny it, but the Microsoft battle is on
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
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Not all that long ago, Google executives would routinely disavow any plans to use the company's various Web-based services -- which offer free e-mail, an online calendar and a document-editing tool, among other things -- to compete with Microsoft's market-dominating Office suite.
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| GPhone hype needs to be disconnected
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Thursday, September 06, 2007
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Apple may be the undisputed king of preannouncement hype (with the recent flurry of rumours about new iPod features, some of which were announced yesterday, being just the latest example) but Google has to run a close second. And the current hot spot for die-hard fans of the technology giant is the much-rumoured ''Google phone'' or GPhone.
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| The resurrection of free: Companies rethink paid content
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
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With The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal said to be looking at removing the ''pay wall'' around their online content, and others - including CNN, Google and AOL - having already done so, one question springs to mind: Are we seeing the death of paid content online, and the return of free as a business model?
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| Microsoft to build its own castle in the clouds?
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
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If you happen to be somewhere and the subject of Microsoft and its software strategy comes up, don't be surprised if you hear the word ''cloud'' a lot.It's not necessarily a comment on how the future of the software giant's business is under a cloud, but more likely a reference to the growing market for Web-based software, which Microsoft is trying to adapt to.
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| Web news firm gets cash boost
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Monday, July 30, 2007
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NowPublic.com, a leading ''citizen journalism'' site based in Vancouver, announced today that it has closed a $10.6-million (U.S.) round of financing from venture capital groups in the U.S. and Canada, after turning down several offers to acquire the company outright.
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| EBay wants a fight, but Craigslist won't put up its dukes
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
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Online auction site eBay launched a U.S. version of its Kijiji online-classified service this week, after more than a year of focusing on building that business in countries such as Germany, Britain and Canada (where it is the leading classified service, ahead of U.S.-based Craigslist).
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| Apple takes a gamble with restrictive iPhone options
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
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Even if you're not a big technology buff, you probably know that the world is in the grips of a frenzy unlike virtually anything in recent memory.The almost religious fervour revolves around the most eagerly awaited product since the first iPod, namely, the iPhone, a ''smart'' phone Apple hopes will revolutionize the mobile industry in the same way the iPod changed the face of digital entertainment.
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| Is chief Yahoo right choice for Yahoo chief?
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
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The timing of the announcement may have come as a surprise, but the fact that Terry Semel resigned as chief executive officer of Yahoo Inc. this week wasn't a big shock. The Internet giant has been under fire for more than a year over what investors and analysts see as a lack of vision, and for its continued inability to compete with Google Inc. on the search and advertising fronts.
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| Facebook morphs with F8 Platform
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Mathew Ingram
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
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Several weeks ago, Facebook - the fast-growing social networking site - launched something it called F8, also known as the Facebook Platform. On the surface, it seemed to be just a way of letting other Web-based services piggyback on Facebook, and pitch their wares to the site's 12 million or so users.
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| Craigslist lets users call all its shots
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Thursday, June 07, 2007
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If you've never been to the online classifieds website known as craigslist.org, your first visit is likely to be a disappointment - especially if you've read some of the press about how successful the site is, how it's killing the newspaper business, how the service is worth billions of dollars and so on.
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| Is Facebook the next Google, or is it more like Lindsay Lohan?
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MATHEW INGRAM
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
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There's no question that Facebook is the new ''It Girl'' of the social networking scene, and has been pretty much since it opened its network last fall (prior to that it was restricted to university students). You can tell by how quickly everyone from governments to school boards is trying to block access to it.
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