Amazon’s ebook milestone: digital sales outstrip hardbacks for first time in...
We are all used to digital media for consuming music, and increasingly for video. Books, however, have remained firmly in the analogue domain. (You kids do read books nowadays, right? Just checking…)...
View ArticleHow to hail a London cabbie using Twitter | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Another interesting article looking at the convergent (lazy) culture we live in today. Apparently we can now hail a cab in London using twitter on our smart phones. The question is; are we becoming...
View ArticleMediaPost Publications Devices Will Add To TV’s Advantage 08/10/2010
Last week Dish announced that starting in September, subscribers will be able to watch television content on their iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. On the same day, Motorola and Verizon FIOS kicked off an...
View ArticleMulti-tasking media consumption on rise among Britons, says Ofcom study |...
16 to 24-year-olds particularly adept at juggling act, cramming nine and a half hours of media into six and a half hours of actual time. This article considers the convergent culture we live in today....
View ArticleTop acting talent in British epic video game – Fable III
The use of big name British acting talent in the video game Fable III indicates the popularity of gaming and the increasing convergence of film and gaming....
View ArticleiPhone brings cinematography to masses – Entertainment News, Technology News,...
This Variety article looks at the impact of the iPhone 4S camera on film production: The introduction of video recording options on Digital SLR cameras opened a lot of doors for budding auteurs on a...
View ArticleMTV Under The Thumb app will stream shows with ‘co-viewing’ social features |...
MTV are to launch a smartphone app that will make social viewing easier. MTV is launching an iPhone and Android app called Under The Thumb in Europe, which will enable people to watch its shows while...
View ArticleGirls Around Me
A couple of days ago John Brownlee wrote an interesting post on Cult of Mac about an iPhone app called Girls Around Me. The app combined data from Facebook and Foursquare to display publicly available...
View ArticleNew Statesman – Love rectangle – the impact of the iPhone
For those A2 Media students who did a case study on Apple, this article provides a great account of the impact of the iPhone: The iPhone was, in effect, two inventions. The first was a smartphone that...
View ArticleBBC iPlayer October Performance
This BBC blog post shows the current popularity of the BBC iPlayer and the growth in usage and the range of devices it supports. One of our key goals for iPlayer in 2012 was to take it beyond the PC...
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