Opinion

Lively, another Google fail

Despite supposedly employing the brightest people on earth and having the riches of Croesus, Google continually fail to extend its business model successfully beyond search advertising. This must be infuriating when it sees […]

Why publisher consolidation is inevitable

After the second world war Britain had a big aircraft manufacturing capacity and the experienced engineers to design excellent civil airliners that would use that capacity. So when I was young […]

Sony PS3 marketing mistakes

One of the features of the Sony Playstation PS3, over it’s short life, has been the inconsistent and misleading messages coming from senior Sony management. Starting in early 2006 when […]

In an interesting news item it was revealed that outside investors had risked $184 million in virtual worlds in the first quarter of this year and $161 million in the second quarter of […]

Firstly lets define what is meant by fanboy. What we are talking about is someone who has an irrational, emotional attachment to an inanimate piece of electronic equipment that makes […]

British politics, don't cheer too soon

The Conservatives have just won the Crewe and Nantwich by-election from Gordon Brown’s Labour party with a huge 17.6% swing. This is massively good news as it presages our getting rid […]