Technology Review: Briefings: Media

January/February 2010

Briefing: Media

Traditional media supported themselves for decades by acting as brokers between advertisers and audiences. Audiences wanted content, and advertisers wanted access to audiences, so advertisers subsidized the bill for content. Now, cheap computing and network connectivity have created publishing platforms and advertising markets where advertisers and audiences no longer depend on media companies.

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» Technology Overview: Media Moves Online

» Industry Challenges: Bringing Advertisers Back

» We Media: Mainstream News Taps Into Citizen Journalism

» Case Study: Patrolling the Web for Pirated Content

» Policy: Battling over Neutrality

» Companies to Watch Private, and Public

» Asia-Pacific: Diverse Technologies Flourish in Fragmented Markets

» Market Watch: Convergence Is King

» Research to Watch

Latest Media News

: Wireless Companies Could Use Your Friends; By Tom Simonite; Thursday, July 22, 2010; Mobile carriers might get marketing insights from studying whom you call and what device you use.

: Startup Lets Web Advertisers Bid for Your Attention; By Erica Naone; Friday, July 09, 2010; A real-time auction system will create even more targeted ads.

Blog: Sending Data 160 Characters at a Time

By Tom Simonite

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

In the absence of a good Internet connection, why not use text messages to transmit data?

: Blog: Will Apple's Latest Browser Hurt Publishers?; By Stephen Cass; Wednesday, June 09, 2010; Removing ads from Web pages may be an attempt to push content creators toward the iPad and iPhone.

Latest Media Video

Plastic Logic's Touch-Screen E-Reader: Plastic Logic's e-reader features a touch-screen interface that lets users organize and search for files and annotate documents.

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