Sep 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
The BBC has announced that it is about to launch a version of its iPlayer service for Nokia N96 mobile phones. This will be the first mobile version of the service which will allow users to download and not just stream programmes, unlike the iPhone and iPlayer...
Sep 8, 2008 | Uncategorized
Yahoo! has re-launched its online advertising network, and now claims to be able to reach 80% of web users in the UK and Ireland, writes The Guardian. The renamed Yahoo! Network now provides access to a combined audience of over 29m unique users/month and includes...
Sep 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Online retailer Amazon US has launched its new Amazon Video On Demand service, writes The Financial Times. The service replaces its digital download service Amazon Unbox which launched in 2006. The new service focuses on paid-for instant streaming of advertising-free...
Sep 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Nokia is close to launching its Comes With Music subscription service, with Carphone Warehouse already taking pre-orders for phones with the platform pre-loaded, writes Telecoms.com. The service was first mooted at the end of 2007 and will launch in the UK on October...
Sep 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Google celebrated its ten year anniversary this month with the beta launch of a new browser in 100 countries, writes Brand Republic. Google Chrome will be competing with Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer (which claims 72% of installed browsers) and Firefox...
Sep 1, 2008 | Uncategorized
A new study from the World Advertising Research Centre (WARC) remains confident that the UK online advertising market will remain strong in the face of the global economic slow-down. The firm predicts that internet advertising will grow 17.6% during 2008 and 12% in...
Aug 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here are the latest stats and figures from the past month. Monthly internet usage statistics for France, March 2008 Source: Nielsen/NetRatings Home/Work Panel monthly statistics Nielsen Online: http://www.nielsen-online.com Monthly top ten French parent companies for...
Aug 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
New research from conScore shows that Russia has the fastest growing internet population in Europe, writes Netimperative. Year-on-year Russia’s online audience grew 27% to reach 17.m people in June this year, followed by France (up 21% to 31.5m), Spain (up 15%...
Aug 27, 2008 | Uncategorized
Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 11.8% during Q2 to reach 305m units according to new figures from Gartner. Sales of mobile phones in Western Europe reached close to 42m units during the quarter, up 16% from the previous quarter. However, quarterly year-on-year sales...
Aug 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Nearly 16.5m UK households are now connected to the internet according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), reports the BBC. The figure represents a year-on-year increase of 1.2m homes and represents almost two-thirds of all UK...
Aug 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
The BBC is to expand the selection of episodes available to watch through its iPlayer service with the implementing of series staking in September, writes Brand Republic. Individual episodes of TV programmes will no longer be removed after seven days but will remain...
Aug 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
Polar explorer, Motivational speakerAugust 2008 Ben Saunders is a record-breaking polar explorer and by his own admission an “extreme blogger”. From the North Pole he wrote to millions using his blog, a PDA, a matchstick and a satellite phone. While...
Aug 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
The latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations Electronic (ABCe) show that traffic to the Guardian.co.uk website grew 28% year-on-year in July to reach a record 20,622,063 unique users (up 1% on June 2008). Other sites also had record months: traffic to the...
Aug 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
The latest e-retail sales index from IMRG and Capgemini shows that online retail grew 11.3% in July from the previous month, writes vnunet.com. Total online sales for the month reached £4.8bn, equivalent to £79/person in the UK, as consumers avoided the rain and used...
Aug 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Retailers need to be ready to face a new breed of savvy consumers, according to new research into the way people use broadband-enabled mobile devices to access the web while they are out and about. The research, which was carried out among early adopters of the...
Aug 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
This summer’s news from MySpace confirmed there’s no slowdown in sight to the growing desire for people to build their own web pages and footprints online, writes MarketingVOX. While Facebook offers the simple ‘plug-and-play’ approach to...
Aug 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
New research from Hitwise shows that UK internet users are moving away from generic search terms such as “cheap flights” in favour of brand names and terms. In May 2008, 88% of UK searches for the 2,000 most popular search terms were for branded terms...
Aug 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
The summer report from the UK government’s Ofcom group revealed a stark picture of a nation migrating into the digital networked society. The latest figures show that online adspend in the UK overtook spending across the mainstream analogue channels. According...
Aug 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
The summer report from Ofcom report has quantified the emergence of high levels of multi-tasking between the TV and other channels and how they have become the norm. TV attention is now clearly divided as many consumers switch on their mobiles and their laptops, with...
Aug 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
The latest Wireless Trends Outlook from Strategy Analytics predicts that global mobile adspend will reach $2.4bn in 2009 up from $1bn this year, writes Cellular-news. The firm predicts that the increased use of Adobe’s Flash and the launch of Nokia’s...
