At the Digital Watch blog, Steven Lin has posted an interesting article looking at Why Podcasting Never Killed the Radio Star in China: Three years ago, an article from Time magazine changed my life. “Will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?”The idea of a automatically-downloaded multi-media feed changing the new media landscape blew my mind. In […]

If you’ve ever wondered why technologies popular with first adopters, like podcasting or Twitter, are adopted more slowly by general users, you don’t have to look much further than the latest research from Parks Associates. They found that roughly one-fifth of all U.S. heads-of-household have never used e-mail. Their annual phone survey of U.S. households […]

Think text-messaging plans for mobile phones are a scam? A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones costs more than sending data via the Hubble Space Telescope. He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble – and compared that with the cost of […]