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Online music services: made by geeks, for geeks?
I’ve just returned from Midem, the music industry’s annual knees up held in (usually sunny, but not really in January) Cannes. The general mood was the mixture of optimism (Spotify, new business models) and pessimism (piracy, stalling digital sales) that has long been par-for-the-course at music industry events.
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ESPN 360: Not a net neutrality issue, but is it a good business model?
There’s been recent renewed interest in ESPN’s attempts to charge US operators to provide its ESPN 360 online service, mostly prompted by this article in Wired.
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Ya-har! The Pirate Bay busts some piracy and peer-to-peer myths
The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s leading peer to peer sites and tormentor in chief of the music and movie industries, has released statistics breaking down the location of its users by country.
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Broadband as a universal service: a (dumb) pipe dream?
Lord Carter, the UK government’s new communications minister, has wasted little time in creating a splash in his new role. At a Westminster eForum event earlier this week, he hinted heavily that the government was to make broadband a universal service obligation.
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Keep It Simple, Stupid: Orange’s Partner Camp mantra
I’ve just attended Orange’s Partner Camp in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Swapping London’s miserable climes with those of the Sunshine State was an attractive enough proposition, one not even tempered by a nine hour flight full of sugar-addled kids heading to Disney World.
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O2’s new developer programme shuns the API litmus test
The appearance of the O2 Litmus site site prompted much excitement among the Broadband & Internet IC team. Was another operator about to expose the inner workings of its voice, SMS and other network services to the world?
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Giles Cottle
Giles is an analyst for Informa’s Broadband and Internet Intelligence Centre.
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