entertainment in comment and analysis
Coming soon - Napster versus the litigious suits
Comment The internet isn't just revolutionising the way music is sold and distributed - it's changing the whole face of the entertainment industry. Scene one: A party. Record executives engaging in debauched behaviour typical of their self-obsessed... [26 Jul 2000]
Ananova out of sync with the future of the web?
Comment The Press Association (PA) developed a green-haired, female avatar called Ananova to deliver news, sports and entertainment information to visitors at http://www.ananova.com . Orange has bought a virtual newsreader for £95m. [06 Jul 2000]
Online help: can the web set the political agenda?
Comment It is busy making its money from high-income customers who use the web to buy things and research their entertainment needs. Getting the UK government to recognise that an online public consultation on domestic violence is worthy of its attention... [21 Jun 2000]
The Value Proposition: IT and the utopian fallacy
Comment For information intensive operations such as software, media entertainment, communications and finance, the traditional industrial checks to growth do not apply. When one company controls your communications link, the entertainment you access, the... [05 Apr 2000]
Loyalty card schemes: an expensive waste of time?
Comment Holidays, tickets and entertainment are all on the card. It decided the money would be better spent cutting prices. Or, as the official line goes, customers would rather have pounds in their pocket today than points for tomorrow. [27 Aug 1999]
Strategic Vision: Giga Information Group on convergence in interactive digital TV
Comment However, the interactivity level provided by an Internet computer is still far and above what interactive television can provide, and television is still very much seen as low-cost entertainment by most consumers. [07 Jul 1999]
Golden opportunities in European online healthcare
Comment Just seven days later, Fox Entertainment got in on the healthcare act. The consumer healthcare market in the US will be worth $205.2bn by 2003, according to Jupiter Communications. With technology becoming an increasingly integral part of the... [11 Jun 1999]
Web portals: here today, gone tomorrow?
Comment Web portals aim to be a 'one-stop-shop' from which you can access entertainment, news and other services. Web publishing is well known as an industry of trial and error, but its first coherent business model has just emerged from the haze: Web... [29 Jul 1998]
Analysis: why the business world won't want the XC
Comment It is aimed specifically for use in the education and entertainment markets, and for electronic commerce applications. First there was the PC. Then came the NC. Now we have the XC. Manufacturer Acer is responsible for the X-Computer (XC) and claims... [10 Jul 1998]
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