The founder of Wallpaper, Tyler Brule, is to launch a new high-end business and cultural magazine called Monocle.The new magazine will, according to reports in the trade press, be based in London and be sold worldwide, with offices in Tokyo, New York and Zurich.Monocle will provide business reportage, and coverage of the latest cultural happenings… Continue reading Wallpaper Founder To Launch New Magazine

Future publishing has signed a deal with Sony, reviving the Official PlayStation Magazine title for a new magazine to launch next month.The magazine will continue to lead with editorial about the forthcoming PlayStation 3 console, which is launched in the UK next March, alongside coverage of portable console the PSP and the established PS2.Future will… Continue reading Future To Revive Official PlayStation Magazine

Although multimedia messaging is gaining in popularity, short text messaging continues to be the most profitable part of the mobile data universe, according to a new report from eMarketer. The report says that this year, revenues for short messaging service (SMS) will hit $20 billion in Western Europe, $9 billion in the Asia-Pacific region and… Continue reading SMS Continues To Be Profitable

China’s online display advertising activity reached a peak in September of this year, according to new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. NetRatings recently launched its online advertising measurement service AdRelevance in Japan, which allows the Chinese market to be compared with the current top three global ad spending markets, the US, Japan and the UK, as well… Continue reading China’s Online Ad Activity Reaches September Peak

The proportion of households without internet access which think it is not important to have home access to the internet has increased steeply between mid-2005 and early 2006, from 51.7% to 74.6%, according to new research from Point Topic. Point Topic’s Broadband Consumer Survey 2 says that by early 2006, an estimated 11.2 million households… Continue reading Offline Households Show Little Interest In Going Online

As of 2006, 63% of the US population aged 3 and over uses the internet at least once a month, according to new research from eMarketer. US internet users aged 50 and over total 46.8 million, or 26% of the total US internet user population. Adults aged 50 and older make up an estimated 29.4%… Continue reading US Internet Users Over 50 Reach 46.8 Million

Internet users from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK are more likely to use their mobile phones to go online than internet users in the US, according to the inaugural findings from comScore Networks’ Mobile Tracking Study. The study, which is designed to analyse how consumers across six countries go online on their mobile… Continue reading Europeans More Likely Than Americans To Go Online Via Mobiles

Non-voice services will account, on average, for 13.3% of total service revenues for US mobile operators in 2006 and this is set to grow to 24.5% by 2011, according to a new report from Analysys. The US Mobile Market: Trends and Forecasts 2006-11 report says that the biggest driver of this growth is entertainment services,… Continue reading Entertainment To Drive US Mobile Data Revenues

ITV shareholders are urging the company to appoint a new chief executive by Christmas, according to a report in the Guardian. The shareholders are apparently unhappy at the slow progress of the search for a replacement for Charles Allen. The report says that headhunters Zygos have widened their search for a new CEO to include… Continue reading ITV Shareholders Want New CEO By Christmas

Yahoo! is coming under increasing pressure to invest in more social networking as internet users move to sites such as MySpace and YouTube, according to analysts. Yahoo! could potentially be interested in bidding for Facebook, a smaller rival to MySpace. The pressure on Yahoo! follows the acquisition by Google of YouTube, the video sharing website,… Continue reading Yahoo! Under Pressure To Invest In Social Networking