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Friday 12 November 2010

British Neworks Decline The Palm Pre 2 [ 12-11-2010 19:21 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: Pocket-lint Translation by: Paul Smith

Palm have been dealt a heavy blow in the UK as it emerged that all of the UK's major networks have turned down the Palm Pre 2. The device will of course be available for British customers to buy SIM free, but none of the networks will be stocking it in their portfolios.

Orange said they had no plans to stock it and Vodafone followed suit, even though their French division, SFR, does offer the handset, Vodafone UK will not be putting it on their shelves. Even O2, who bagged an exclusive deal to sell the original Pre last year are distancing themselves from it, and that's despite the fact that they will continue to offer the Pre Plus and Pixi.

It's not the sort of start HP would have hoped for its handset division after purchasing Palm, but with more devices on the way perhaps they can change the networks' minds.

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James Murdoch: Apps Are Destroying The Newspaper [ 12-11-2010 18:41 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: Reuters Translation by: Paul Smith

James Murdoch, head of News Corp in Asia and Europe, is not a big fan of news apps it seems, having described them as cannabalising newspaper sales. Mr Murdoch did offer praise to iTunes and the iPad for what he called a 'frictionless' experience in selling their content.

However, he wasn't so chuffed at the prospect of mobile phone apps, which he saw as engaging customers more than news websites and thus supplanting the newspaper itself to a greater degree. Mr Murdoch said:

The problem with the apps is that they are much more directly cannibalistic of the print products than the website. People interact with it much more like they do with the traditional product.

The comments come on the back of News Corp setting up pay walls on its newspapers' websites. The move has cost News Corp around 90% of their online readership and apparently they have just 105,000 paying subscribers for their websites. A far cry from the millions that visit the Guardian's free site.

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Facebook Launching Mail Service On fb.com Domain? [ 12-11-2010 18:25 ]

Author: Ivanov Konstantin Source: BGR Translation by: Paul Smith

Rumours are circulating that another Facebook press event to be held on Monday will usher in a new web bsed email service from the social network. The new service, supposedly codenamed 'Project Titan', is thought to make use of the new fb.com domain that Facebook is thought to have registered.

Facebook employees use the standard facebook.com domain in their email addresses, but presumably the company would want a different domain for use by customers. BGR did a little digging around and found that the fb.com domain was controlled by a company called MarkMonitor, which manages online presences for large companies, including Facebook.

BGR admits that this is of course pure speculation, but given the strong talk of a possible webmail offerring it's not all that far fetched.

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