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Many years ago (almost five years ago in fact) I wrote an article about what the music industry might look like in a digital distributed world. My premise was that thanks to networked portable devices and the Long Tail, bands would survive because distribution networks would allow them to reach their ...

Guidelines suggest tweets should be frequent, timely and credibleEven its author admits that a 20-page strategy paper for government departments on how to use Twitter might be regarded as "a bit of over the top" for a microblogging tool with a limit ...

Guidelines suggest tweets should be frequent, timely and credibleEven its author admits that a 20-page strategy paper for government departments on how to use Twitter might be regarded as "a bit of over the top" for a microblogging tool with a limit ...

Streaming music service Spotify submits iPhone app to Apple, but analysts say it might be too close to iTunes to be approvedEuropean streaming music service Spotify has developed an application to use their service on the popular iPhone, but it must first submit ...

Anthropologist Stefana Broadbent says that modern communications aren't expanding our circle of friends but are strengthening our most important relationshipsModern communications are not expanding our social circle, but anthropologist Stefana Broadbent says that mobile phones, instant messaging and social networking are actually strengthening our ...

Anthropologist Stefana Broadbent says that modern communications aren't expanding our circle of friends but are strengthening our most important relationshipsModern communications are not expanding our social circle, but anthropologist Stefana Broadbent says that mobile phones, instant messaging and social networking are actually strengthening our ...

The TEDGlobal conference began its second day with views of the internet as a fragile network running on the kindness of strangers and as a force for spin and repressionThe second day of the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford began with contrasting optimistic and pessimistic ...

Internet giant Google wins landmark high court libel ruling over forum comment displayed in search resultsGoogle is not liable for defamatory comments that appear in news articles, blogs and forums displayed in its search results, a high court judge in London has concluded in ...

After almost 18 months of increasingly bitter negotiations, Microsoft is said to be closing in on a deal to buy technology rival Yahoo's web search business.Several reports emerged late on Thursday suggesting that late-stage talks were under way between the two companies, opening up ...

In month of world exclusive on Michael Jackson's death, TMZ.com is measured at 11.7 million unique users by comScoreBreaking the news of Michael Jackson's death saw traffic to the celebrity gossip website TMZ.com jump by almost a quarter last month.TMZ.com, which late last month ...

The world seems all a titter that teens don't use TwitterWas the whiz-kid correct? Two teens give opposing viewsTeens spurning Twitter was one of the bombshells from 15-year-old Matthew Robson that the media highlighted in a report he wrote for investment ...

Follow Benji Lanyado as he travels around Brighton using tips gleaned from Twitter. For a little explanation... click hereTrack Benji Lanyado's Brighton #TwiTrip by...• Following his Twitter profile• Following his @replies• Watching the #TwiTrip hashtagBenji's latest images:...

• Teenagers switching to streaming sites – survey• Spotify and YouTube lead the way as habits changeThey are the record companies' bogeyman: the 15-year-old in their bedroom ripping off a star's latest album and sharing it with their friends has been blamed for ...

• Teenagers switching to streaming sites – survey• Spotify and YouTube lead the way as habits changeThey are the record companies' bogeyman: the 15-year-old in their bedroom ripping off a star's latest album and sharing it with their friends has been blamed for ...

• Teenagers switching to streaming sites – survey• Spotify and YouTube lead the way as habits changeThey are the record companies' bogeyman: the 15-year-old in their bedroom ripping off a star's latest album and sharing it with their friends has been blamed for ...

Following the BT/Phorm saga, the government must clear up confusion over consumer protection and monitoring softwareBT's announcement that it is dropping its involvement with Phorm "for the moment" is unsurprising. The telecoms giant has a high level of trust among ...

American authorities are conducting a formal investigation into whether Google's $125m deal with the US book industry is anti-competitive.The Department of Justice has confirmed that it is looking into the internet giant's agreement with authors' groups to pay for the right to digitise and ...

Government claims technology will curb access to pornography, but internet users say it blocks politically sensitive content and monitors behaviourChina's controversial plan to install Green Dam internet filtering software on all computers will go ahead despite being postponement, a government official told state media ...

The debate about media revenue models is certainly creating revenue for some content – the thoughts of pop culture theoristsIf you want to deepen your confusion over the future revenue models for media content, then look no further than the staging of the paradoxical ...

The debate about media revenue models is certainly creating revenue for some content – the thoughts of pop culture theoristsIf you want to deepen your confusion over the future revenue models for media content, then look no further than the staging of the paradoxical ...