Category: Business

  • Finding a viable pay-for-content model

    PaidContent UK reports some of the details of a Harris Interactive survey they commissioned which asked what people will do if their favourite online free source of news started charging for access to that content. The results surely won’t surprise…

  • A greyscale view of chargeable mobile content

    Quite a bit of comment and opinion greeted the news from Dow Jones a few days ago that access to the mobile edition of the Wall Street Journal will no longer be free from later next month. It caught my…

  • Understanding the large organization

    ReadWriteWeb reports on a Forrester survey last April which has revealed that despite the hype, it’s not Generation Y – those born somewhere between the late 1970s to the late 1990s, also known as Millenials – that’s getting business to…

  • End of the road looms for SpinVox

    Things seem to be going from bad to worse for SpinVox. The voice-to-text transcription company has been at the centre of a major kerfuffle in recent months regarding the genuineness of its claims about its technology and how it performs…

  • At least embrace the mobile web

    Mobile commerce is ahead of its time, says a report by eMarketer published on September 4. […] mobile commerce is still in its infancy. Web-enabled mobile phone users are much more likely to employ their devices to get weather forecasts,…