France cracks down on Internet something

I can’t wait for what the market provides users to get their stuff uploaded or downloaded. It cannot be stopped, it maybe contained (it= people who want to share stuff):

The French National Assembly on Tuesday approved a plan by President Nicolas Sarkozy to punish digital pirates with the possible suspension of their Internet connections, a little more than a month after the same body had rejected the proposal in a surprise vote.

App store adoption

It seems to me that mobile app developers are focusing on the iPhone to target consumers (and burgeoning enterprise market) and the BlackBerry for the enterprise users. Where does that leave Nokia, Microsoft and others who want developers for their platforms? I don’t have a clear picture

New Microsoft Office 2010 features

Because its not cluttered enough as it is:

“Office 2010 will include Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks integrated right into Word. That’s just a hint of what’s to come!”

The iPhone Street Journal

Another day, another article in the WSJ about the iPhone. Today’s topic, the iPhone as an ad delivery channel:

At the most basic, marketers are taking advantage of the iPhone’s advanced video and screen capabilities by creating streaming video ads. But some are taking things further by offering ads disguised as apps.

More coverage in their sister publication:

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users have downloaded 1 billion apps for their devices in 9 months. Someone other than Steve Jobs and co. ought to be able to make money from that, right?

Yesterday, the demand on carrier networks by all them users:

The iPhone has made AT&T the cool kid on the cellphone block, bringing in lots of new customers all eager to play with the shiny new device.

Trouble is, the iPhone is expensive for AT&T, and not just because of the heavy subsidies on the initial purchase price.

Users of iPhone download games, video and other Web data at two to four times the rate of other smartphone users, according to comScore. Yet AT&T charges iPhone subscribers the same fee of $30 a month for data that it levies on other smartphone customers. And aside from restricting certain activities, like file sharing, AT&T doesn’t limit how much data can be downloaded.

The death of local TV

If only Hulu died and there were elections year around:

Station revenue is down across the country: at E. W. Scripps, down 20 percent compared with the same quarter last year; at Belo, the owner of 20 stations, down 23 percent; at LIN TV, the owner of 29 stations, down 21 percent. The media conglomerates are also affected; the News Corporation reported a station revenue decline 28 percent and the Walt Disney Company reported a 30 percent decline.

Why do we need local TV or TV networks anymore?

Lost Remote:

““The appetite for full-length TV shows online was larger than anyone thought or expected. And now people are starting to wonder, do we even need the cable connections?””

Local TV better find a reason to exist other than as a marketing vehicle for their parent networks.