The humble paperback is undergoing a slow evolution, but will the e-book reader become the next must have device like an iPod or mobile phone? Do the demographics of book readers match those of the new tech savvy digital consumers? This is the question that many publishers and retailers are […]
While traditional IPTV continues to stall in Australia due to the limitations of our broadband infrastructure, the casual use of content distribution services continues to explode. Loosely referred to as internet TV. Australians per capita are one of the highest users of peer to peer services like BitTorrent. This peer […]
While overseas recently I had the opportunity to hire a car for two days to explore the south of France. By shear coincidence I was staying next to an outlet that had the Daimler Chrysler Smart Car. At first glance this small pug like vehicle looks more at home in […]
The mantra is to provide a range of content on a variety of platforms, to extend reach, brand and perhaps revenues. While the current trends show an increasing appetite for short and increasingly long form content on mobile handsets, and i-pods it remans difficult to extract revenue from these enhancements […]
From Wikipedia – QRIO (“Quest for cuRIOsity”, originally named Sony Dream Robot or SDR) was to be a bipedal humanoid entertainment robot developed and marketed (but never sold) by Sony to follow up on the success of its AIBO toy. QRIO stood approximately 0.6 m (2 feet) tall and weighed […]
