I have spent many hours 'on hold' this week listening to Telstra's selection of music waiting to get a problem with my home broadband service rectified. I changed to Big Pond about 2 years ago and when I get really pissed off with their call centre staff I comfort myself by comparing it to some [...]
Zillion TV, as you read in my last post, are about to serve up free on demand TV services to homes in the US using a business model based on personalised advertising. An interesting innovation at GDC this year is covered in a story on the BBC technology pages about a new on demand video [...]
Apple's Steve Jobs has called for the record industry to abandon digital rights management for all online music stores. He has posted a statement on the Apple web site which argues the case for abandoning a system about which Apple often takes flack from consumers. The main complaints are its restrictions on 5 copies and [...]