Here’s an interesting market research report from TNS I came across at work this week: Digital World, Digital Life The data on methods of communication (pages 12-13) interests me most. Do you think we’ll ever get to a point where digital communication overtakes face-to-face? This report suggests that when communicating with our friends face-to-face communication is only just beating out email. However with our partners, parents and family it’s much further off. When distance is an issue there’s obviously a benefit to digital communication. I know email and Facebook are my preferred methods of communication with friends who live in [...]
January, 2009:
The end of DRM on iTunes
This week Apple announced that by the end of the first quarter of 2009 all music available to download from the iTunes store will be DRM (Digital Rights Management) free. Essentially this means that once you have downloaded a track you can store and play it on any compatible device. The new format is known as iTunes Plus. The introduction of this new format for the whole iTunes catalogue comes with the news that single tracks will no longer be sold at the standard price of £0.79. Pricing will now be variable with singles priced at either £0.59, £0.79 or [...]
A grand day out
On Friday I went to London with my partner, Laura, for a grand day of culture. We started off at the Wellcome Collection where Laura was interested in seeing the War + Medicine exhibition. I would thoroughly recommend a visit to this museum to anyone with even the slightest interest in science. The two permanent exhibitions, Medicine Now and Medicine Man are well worth your time. It’s a relatively small museum so I reckon you could do the whole thing in a couple of hours. I’ll tell you about the highlights of my visit later on. After lunch at Rowley’s [...]
