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The Weekly Round-Up: 13.11.09
Round-Up John Cale or Brian Eno possibly, but the coiffured 1980s pop idol of 'Never Going to Give You Up' fame? If you are of a nervous disposition skip to the second part of the Round-Up. Thank you. For the rest of you, here's... [13 Nov 2009]
Autonomy swallows Interwoven for $775m
News Mike Lynch, group chief executive of Autonomy, said in the statement: "The combination of Autonomy and Interwoven, industry leaders in meaning-based computing and document and content-management respectively, will continue the extension... [22 Jan 2009]
Comparethemarket moves into mortgages
News The company's white-label partners are Simply Business (SME services), PMI (health insurance), Motley Fool (loans), Xelector (utilities) and The Idol (travel insurance). Financial services comparison site... [14 Oct 2008]
Murdoch's Fox snaffles online ad specialist
News The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed but FIM said in a statement that SDC's proprietary technology will enable the company to serve its online network, which includes the sites of MySpace.com, Fox's American... [23 Feb 2007]
Search for 'Tech Idol' begins
News The government has launched a £9m search for a local council to be held up as a shining example of best practice in e-government. The winning council will receive £3m from government to put its ideas into practice - along with another... [07 Dec 2005]
Sony's DRM woes grow as hackers say hello
News The site appears to be associated with Canada's version of the American Idol TV show. Sony BMG took another blow on Wednesday, when a security company said it has found malicious attacks based on software designed to... [17 Nov 2005]
Leader: Too old for IT
Leader It's not Pop Idol, after all. Recently a top exec at a big IT services company explained to silicon.com how to deliver a successful IT project. His advice: use more old people. Most mistakes are made by younger staff, he... [24 Oct 2005]
Leader: Should the UK music industry take the legal high ground?
Leader This is born out by the fact that independent labels, typically those producing more innovative sounds, have not seen any decline, while major labels, dependent upon tiresome cover versions, rehashed identikit pop acts and the nauseating... [14 Jan 2004]
UK download fans: The law is breathing down your neck
News However, Yeates' comments fail to acknowledge the impact that yet another round of Pop Idol will have on consumers' confidence in the record industry's ability to create original music worth buying. The British... [14 Jan 2004]
Mobile operators give users a crappy New Year
News With each major event, whether it's the Rugby World Cup final, the Pop Idol final or New Year's Eve, we hear more and more about these periods of network overload. The UK's four major mobile phone operators all badly... [05 Jan 2004]
Will's Web Watch: Leave the file sharers alone
Comment Only the major labels, with their homogenised sounds, and Pop Idol production line are experiencing a fall in revenues - which last year saw an 11 per cent decline. Now, I'm not saying I am involved in file-sharing of... [08 Sep 2003]
Dot-coms have grown up - get used to it
Comment Third-generation pioneer 3 has done a deal to further position it as a football highlights distributor and today we hear that not only is O2 again jumping on the Pop Idol bandwagon fresh from another summer of Big... [05 Aug 2003]
$24.8m Autonomy acquisition focuses on video
News The deal will see Autonomy's Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) be further used with data that is not only unstructured but not text-based. Autonomy is to buy video software company Virage for $24.8m. [10 Jul 2003]
Record industry cutting off nose to spite face
News Endless streams of indistinguishable boy bands, churning out cover versions, and the proliferation of the Pop Idol format, has seen the music industry stagnate in recent years. New research has confirmed what many... [08 May 2003]
Universal Music: The right purchase for Apple?
Comment Steve Harmon, a media analyst with Marketsnap Research Group, said: "Apple's rumoured bid for Universal Music group would be a big mistake in an era when artist discovery is being transformed by TV [such as Pop Idol]. [14 Apr 2003]
