Archive for the ‘Distribution’ Category

Living in a converged mobile world

Monday, November 15th, 2004Today's Daily Telegraph unveils a music vending machine that allows people to buy and download songs in the street, at railway stations or in the pub. The kiosks, which transfer tracks to a mobile phone or personal music player for about ...

Another business model under threat

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004 WHAT KEEPS THE FOLKS AT BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO UP LATE AT NIGHT? HINT, IT'S NOT COUNTING THE LATE FEE RECEIPTS - If there were any doubts that the video rental marketplace is coming to an end, cable giant Comcast and ...

All change on the high street

Monday, September 27th, 2004Tesco threatens big names on the high street Was the headline in the FT September 25/26 2004 This is what Chris Brown-Humes had to sayTesco's stunning half-year end results were not just bad news for direct competitors such as ...

Music moves online

Monday, September 20th, 2004September 18 2004 The Guardian Competition to slash cost of online music Reported that Stelios and easymusic had joined the fray in online downloads. The BPI estimates that online downloads have increased from 100,000 to 500,000 from the start of the year ...

Mobile English Lessons

Saturday, September 18th, 2004Adverblog reports that RTV China is launching a new service allowing people to learn English in an integrated way. The company is launching a "Cool English" service that will include a radio program, interactive tv, and the "Slang of the ...

Disruptive technologies

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004Jerry Lawson at eLawyer Blog posts on "disruptive technologies" and how they often deliver economic waves of change. Clayton Christiansen, a Professor at the Harvard Business School, developed the idea of "disruptive technologies" in The Innovator's Dilemma, ...

The “New Swiss Army Knife”

Friday, August 27th, 2004Adverblog writes: Guess what's the 21st century Swiss Army knife equivalent? The answer is on Reveries in an article by Scott Goodson, it's the mobile phone. This is something that SMLXL has been looking at for some time. ...

The New Digital Economics for Newspapers

Tuesday, August 24th, 2004 Life is Local say the Johnston Press. And here is the news Newspapers are on their knees, humbled by the new digital economics, declining into irrelevance, lacking investment, increasingly ignored by readers and scrabbling over a smaller advertising ...

Embracing the Digital Age

Sunday, August 22nd, 2004Boards only spend 3% of their time thinking about the futureFive or six years ago home electronics was a peaceful market. Now people from the outside are coming in like hunting tribes Hideki Komiyama, Sony Electronics chief operating ...

Consumers: the next big player in consumer media?

Friday, August 20th, 2004A interesting article in MediaPost today about the power of the power of consumer-generated media (CGM). It relates the story of Peter Blackshaw, Intelliseek chief marketing officer, who had an unusual firsthand experience with the impact of online word-of-mouth. Blackshaw purchased ...

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