Monthly Archives: December, 2008
Deeper Troubles for Orange
Well it definitely seems that Orange has much deeper problems than whether it would launch an IPTV service, and it is not hard to see that the reasons for the full-on suspension of the IPTV service launch was not down to ourely competitiveness issues. It seems that Orange in the UK is on the brink [...]
Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
From all at Blackarrow Consulting, we wish you an enjoyable, refreshing and renewing holiday. Best wishes and success in 2009. As it is the season of giving, we wish to give you the gift of learning about Blogs and RSS, as well as a starting point list of blogs that we have collected in the [...]
Press Clippings and Reputation Management
There you are, working away, and how do you keep up with the breaking news in your industry specialism? You are out there on the Internet, your company and you and you want to know everything anyone says about you? Ensure that you are represented soundly and in the right competitive arena. How do you [...]
Filtering breaks down
The IWF has now backed down from censoring an image on Wikipedia, the censorship of which was adjudged by many to be too wide ranging by taking in the entire page, in addition to the fact that the image (although not nice) was generally available in libraries, record stores and online download services. The secondary [...]
Kangaroo by the back door
News report on the Guardian newspaper web site (pointed out by Ryan Carson of Carsonified media – thanks) has put it that the BBC is mulling of the sharing of the iPlayer technology with Channel 4 and ITV. This sounds logical until you realise that it could be Kangaroo/Seesaw by the backdoor. I have been [...]
Filtering and its effect on IPTV
Outside of the walled gardens of mainstream IPTV providers like BBC iPlayer, Tiscali/Homechoice and BT Vision, there is a lot of content being provided by over the Internet to PCs and to TV connected PCs. I am not talking about the fenced gardens like Youtube, but the content being provided by companies such as Revision3, [...]
Woolworths / EUK – An Opportunity for Digital Downloads
As reported across the web, the high street retailer Zavvi (was Virgin Megastores) has suspended CD and DVD sales from its website www.zavvi.co.uk due to the entry into administration of the distributer EUK, owned by Woolworths. This is affecting the other customers of EUK including Tesco, WHSmith, and Morrisons. The entire industry is scrambling to [...]