I have written in the past about Blyk, a mobile virtual network operator in the UK, that offers free mobile phone calls to 16-24 year olds in exchange for receiving ads via SMS or MMS. According to this article in the The Times:
The response rate to Blyk’s advertising campaigns, which take the form of text [...]
A study conducted by the Stichting Kijkonderzoek (SKO) in the Netherlands estimates that 28 percent of Dutch households has a DVD or hard disk recorder that allows people to view TV shows and movies whenever they want, and skip advertisements. One quarter of households already has a flat screen TV. Digital TV is growing as [...]
A study reveals that close to one third of iPhones sold by Apple in the US have been unlocked to work on other carriers’ networks. That’s one million iPhones! Apple will lose $500 million in 2008 in revenues because it gets no revenue share from these phones. One wonders how much money Apple [...]
Like a lot of Mac fans, I spent the early evening (in Amsterdam) following the keynote of Steve Jobs live from Macworld in San Francisco. For the past few weeks, rumors have been flying around about what Steve would announce today: a new tablet? WiMAX in laptops?
So when he announced a beautiful ultra-thin laptop called [...]
12 Jan, 2008
Posted by: Esme Vos In: Gadgets
Macworld begins on Monday, 14 January 2008. That means for the past few weeks, people have been speculating and spreading rumors: a new 13″ ultra-light Mac Book, an iPhone-like tablet and WiMAX in Mac Books. Since the demise of Think Secret, everyone’s favorite Mac rumor site, the rumor mill has never been the same. If [...]