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GUARDIAN Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:00:19 GMT
Google and Apple are gearing up to launch ads on their apps, a strategy which is set to change the advertising landscape for ever
British mobile users will soon find themselves embroiled in the epic confrontation taking shape between Apple and Google. iAds, Apple's bid to run advertisements inside apps, is expected to make its UK debut in September. Separately, Google has adopted what its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, calls a "mobile first" approach, prioritising investment in a medium that has become "fundamental to everything we do".
With the iPhone moving into mass market territory and the iPad selling 200,000 units a week, Apple's decision to start selling mobile advertising seems likely to concentrate a few media minds.
In early June, Steve Jobs demonstrated iAds in front of Apple developers in San Francisco. The ad he showed off was a work-in-progress by Nissan. The demo, which included a 15-second video, an interactive application and a form to sign up for a........
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GUARDIAN Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:04:51 GMT
For all its flaws, it may still herald the next instalment of the computing future, says John Naughton
Everywhere I went last week, people asked: "Well, what do you think of it, then?" The "it" was my shiny new iPad, aka the Jesus Tablet, but I stoutly declined to give an answer. I've been around long enough to be suspicious of first reactions to fancy gizmos, so I resolved to live with the device for a week, using it as much as possible and recording my impressions in an online diary before reaching any conclusions. The week is now up, so here goes.
First, the iPad is insanely, eye-wateringly expensive, especially in this country. So if you're thinking of getting one, find a friend who's going to the US and get him or her to buy you one over there. I paid nearly £700 for the top-of-the-range 64GB Wi-Fi+3G model, based on many bitter years of discovering the two great truths of life: you can never be too thin and you can never have too much computer memory. In this case,........
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GUARDIAN Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:35:26 GMT
Can Facebook get any bigger? The F8 developer event on Wednesday will reveal a Facebook 'like' button that will expand the existing sharing options between Facebook and the rest of the web, reports the New York Times.
The existing share button will add a favourite link to a user's profile, but the new 'like' feature makes that much more substantial, allowing publishers to offer a wider range of social sharing tools and giving Facebook more data and what is being shared and who by.
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In return, publishers get access to some of that information to contextualise information on that page - so rather than listing the most read articles on its site, the like feature could show which articles the reader's friends had recommended.
An additional toolbar powered by Facebook Connect will let developers add more Facebook features at the bottom of pages, so users can log in the 'satellite' sites with their Facebook ID.
This strategy is about making Facebook accessible is as many places to as many people as possible, trying to keep Facebook at the centre of the real-time discussion. The target is Twitter, particularly following Twitter's recent @anywhere developments that allow Twitter functions to be embedded on any websites.
Meanwhile Meebo, allied with Microsoft and Yahoo, is today launching a rival toolbar that will invite users to chat, posts links and share content including photos. Meebo says the technology will eventually be run by a non-profit group.
That solution will appeal to those that believe behavioural data should not be owned or locked into one proprietary network, like Facebook and Apple. But that ethic might not even have occurred to the majority of the 400 million monthly users of Facebook, for whom functionality and simply using the same network as most of their friends is the deciding factor.
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GUARDIAN Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:45:01 GMT
US is also 'concerned' at plans to block flow of information and experts say state-controlled check will slow browsers
Australia came under fire today from the United States for its proposed internet filtering system, which, if implemented, would be the strictest of any democracy.
A US state department official said that it had raised concerns with Australia over the plans, which are to be voted on by its parliament.
"We remain committed to advancing the free flow of information, which we view as vital to economic prosperity and preserving open societies globally," Michael Tran, a state department spokesman told the Associated Press.
"We don't discuss the details of specific diplomatic exchanges, but I can say that we have raised our concerns on this matter with Australian officials."
Internet companies Google and Yahoo have already condemned the proposal as a heavy-handed measure that could restrict access to legal information.
Australia's communications minister, Stephen Conroy, said the filter would block access to sites that include child pornography, sexual violence and detailed instructions in crime or drug use. The list of banned sites could be updated based on public complaints. But he declined to say what the US had told Australia.
National censorship of overseas sites is becoming a trade issue. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, told the Guardian last week :"Since services and information are our most successful exports, if regulations in China effectively prevent us from being competitive, then they are a trade barrier."
Many countries – including the UK – use filtering systems to limit access to outlawed material: in the UK the independent Internet Watch Foundation lists sites internet service providers (ISPs) are asked to block. The list is secret, and frequently updated. In Germany and Canada ISPs use similar blocking systems; in Italy gambling sites are blocked.
But critics say that the Australian plan, which has been proposed repeatedly over the past five years, exceeds what is necessary and strays into matters of free speech.
"Our primary concern is that the scope of content to be filtered is too wide," Google wrote in its submission to the Australian government, suggesting that the filter – which would be mandatory and state-controlled – would slow browsing speeds.
The company said it already had its own filter to block child pornography.
"Some limits, like child pornography, are obvious. No Australian wants that to be available and we agree," Google said. "But moving to a mandatory ISP-level filtering regime with a scope that goes well beyond such material is heavy-handed and can raise genuine questions about restrictions on access to information."
Lucinda Barlow of Google Australia told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the proposal raised the possibility of banning politically and socially controversial material and went beyond filters used in Germany, Canada and Italy. Other critics say the filtering would put Australia in the same censorship league as China.
Yahoo said the filter would block many sites with controversial content such as euthanasia discussion forums and gay and lesbian forums that discuss sexual experiences. Yet it would not block peer-to-peer file-sharing, nor prevent predators approaching children in chat programs or social networking sites.
Conroy said his department would take the comments from Google and Yahoo into consideration before sending a proposal to parliament later this year.
The US State Department sided with Google in its row with China over censorship when in January the search engine company complained that its systems had been hacked into in what it implied was an attack all but government-sanctioned by China. Last week Google moved its search systems to the Chinese island dependency of Hong Kong. The communist government responded by blocking searches from the mainland for forbidden topics such as the pro-democracy movement.
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