The number of UK households with access to the internet is growing but “considerable barriers” exist preventing certain demographic groups from getting connected, according to new research.Colin Shaddick, director at Continental Research, which conducted the study, said: “Home internet access has increased over the past year from 7.6 million homes to 9.3 million homes. But… Continue reading Blue Collar Workers And Over 65s Slow To Go Online
According to a recent report from The Strategis Group Strategis dataBank: Global Cellular/PCS & Next Generation Subscribers and Operators, the global wireless marketplace will grow by 19% in 2002. Next generation services launching around the world will drive growth and by 2007, Strategis believes that 63% of users will subscribe to these services. Growth will… Continue reading 1.7 Billion Mobile Subscribers Worldwide By 2007, Says Strategis
The BBC is unveiling an interactive gaming and information service to support its new CBeebies and CBBC digital channels which launch next week (see BBC Announces Kids Channels Launch).Each channel will get its own tailored content with CBeebies providing information to help the under fives achieve pre-school learning goals and CBBC catering for 6-12 year… Continue reading BBC Unveils New Interactive Service For Kids
Natmags is investing half a million pounds in revamping its young women’s health title Zest. The news comes as the consumer magazine industry prepares for next week’s ABC results for the second half of 2001.The last set of ABC results did not bring good news for the title, as its circulation total of 110,000 represented… Continue reading Health Mag Zest Given £0.5m Makeover
ABC Electronic (ABCe) has completed its first audit of an email publication, meaning that the online publishing industry could soon become as accountable as the magazine and newspaper industries.Brighton-based publisher, Headstar’s “e-government bulletin” is the first to receive an audit of this kind through ABCe. Following an audit process that validated live email addresses, the… Continue reading First E-Mail Audit Completed
Gaming consoles will not succeed in offering a myriad bolt-on functions, such as MP3 players, personal video recorders (PVR) and hubs for digital cameras, but they will benefit from broadband connections to the internet, allowing online console gaming to take off. This is the message from Game Consoles Connect – a new report by Forrester… Continue reading European Broadband Growth Will Drive Online Gaming Consoles
Ad 2-One, the digital sales and marketing arm of Vivendi Universal, is launching a new online advertising format containing sound.The company claims that the new rich-media format, called Shoshkeles, offers advertisers “intelligent branding,” allowing them to interact with consumers through a series of “sound enabled animations.”According to Ad 2-One, the new ads, which have been… Continue reading Ad 2-One Unveils Online Ads With Sound
Business digital subscriber line (DSL) subscriptions in Europe will be worth $7.9 billion by 2006 according to a new report Incumbents Will Control Booming Business DSL Market from the Yankee Group. This is compared with a forecast $7 billion derived from residential asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) services. Although business subscribers will account for only… Continue reading Business DSL Market Will Be Worth Almost $8 Billion by 2006, Says Yankee Group
More people are visiting e-commerce sites from work than from home, according to the latest figures derived from NetValue’s new Megapanel.The figures generated for December 2001 by the Megapanel, which measures internet behaviour at home, work and university, show that online shopping site, littlewoods.co.uk experienced a 400% month on month increase in at-work users during… Continue reading E-Commerce Sites Get Boost From Work Users
“The online media sector is in disarray,” says McKinsey Quarterly in a rather sobering assessment of the industry’s struggle for revenues in the digital world. In its Q4 2001 report McKinsey says that as both powerful media incumbents and pure-play internet companies alike struggle to make revenue online, the temptation to abandon the world wide… Continue reading 95% Of Pure-Play Online Companies Will Fail, Says McKinsey
