Adobe announced details of a ‘public beta’ of its audio application Soundbooth in a further direct attack on the Apple digital media market. Adobe and Apple previously went head-to-head after Apple launched its photographic workflow product, Aperture. Adobe responded later with the release a similar product, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, as a ‘public beta’. The...
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Earlier this summer AOL put it UK arm up for sale with the reported price tag of $1.86 billion. With a claim of 2.2 million customers in the UK that put the price at a very high $845 per customer. Not surprisingly, whilst some came to look, nobody wanted to buy at that price....
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The Internet economy sometimes seems to work in an inverse way to the rest of the world. Google announced that it would spend $1.65 million on acquiring a one-year-old loss making company and its stock price goes up. Perhaps, to use the dot com-boom phrase – “we just don’t get it”. Google announced yesterday...
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If it were a movie it would be dismissed as pure fantasy. A teetering third world dictatorship sets off a nuclear bomb and threatens the world. Could it really be more unimaginable? Well the unimaginable has happened, and worse still the superpowers of the world are helpless and divided over what to do. A...
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British Airways up to dirty tricks again Two senior directors from British Airways have quit the company whilst it is in the midst of an investigation into price-fixing. Commercial Director Martin George and Communications chief Iain Burns were put on leave of absence in June after a probe was begun by the UK office...
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