Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Research and Markets: Australian Digital Music Downloads To Grow To $200 Million A Year Says 2010 Report Australia - Digital Media - Music, MP3 & Podcasting
Music has been the key driver behind the early developments in digital
media, both in mobile and fixed networks. While mobile is the preferred
technology for listening to music, the business models are not conducive
to helping people become accustomed to using these networks for music
delivery. Most will use free or cheap Internet sites to gain access to
music. The totally unprepared music industry has suffered greatly from
the switch to electronic music, and is only now beginning to recover.
MP3, or podcasting, has gone well beyond the music application, and
millions of podcasts (some in video format) are downloaded daily. All
this is also a fair indication of the future direction of the video
entertainment and wireless broadband (mobility) market.
Key Topics Covered:
Synopsis
Statistical overviews
Online music statistics
PwC survey to 2012 shows online music will surge
Recorded music sector declines
Online music sectors to surge
Music downloads via mobile phones
Album sales drop as music download sales increase
Survey on online music searching
Australian digital music downloads to grow to $200 million a year