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Story of the Week: Apple refreshes the iPad

March 10, 2012 5:54 am by Maryam Nabi

The iPad was on everyone’s lips this week, even if there was puzzlement over what exactly to call the third generation tablet. It was not the iPad 3 or iPad HD as expected, but “the new iPad,” according to Apple. Name apart, the latest version’s hardware divided fans into two camps: those who were disappointed by the modest changes and those who claimed the announcement was “truly huge” for Apple.

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Tim Bradshaw Songkick raises $10m in first Sequoia UK deal

March 8, 2012 7:31 pm by Tim Bradshaw

A recent FT series on the state of the UK’s tech industry asked if Britain had what it takes to  go head to head with Silicon Valley in building great new global companies.

Financing, ideas and ambition were the three areas where British start-ups are often seen as struggling, but news from Songkick, a social network for gig-goers based in Shoreditch, shows that the UK can succeed in all three.

Songkick has become the first UK company to receive an investment from Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capital firms having formerly invested in Apple, Google and YouTube to name but a few.

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Richard Waters Channel 4 takes a step towards TV/ social convergence

March 8, 2012 9:44 am by Richard Waters

David Abraham, head of the UK’s Channel 4, used the FT’s Digital Media Conference in London on Thursday to let loose a new hybrid on the broadcast landscape: a linear TV channel shaped by online social media. Plumbing word of mouth to shape programming is “a kind of reverse [programming guide],” he said.

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Chris Nuttall Apple’s high-definition iPad unveiled

March 7, 2012 4:10 pm by Chris Nuttall

Apple has launched a third version of its iPad at a special event in San Francisco, with a new high-definition display being the main improvement.

The new iPad has a Retina display – its  resolution is so dense the eye cannot discern individual pixels,  an A5X chip with four cores or brains for faster graphics,  an improved 5Mp rear camera and 4G LTE wireless connectivity.  There is also an update to the Apple TV set-top box .  Pricing remains the same and the iPad will be available in a number of countries  on March 16.  Review our live blog from the event after the jump.

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Tim Bradshaw Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales dislikes Facebook buttons

March 7, 2012 10:57 am by Tim Bradshaw

Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales says that the online encyclopedia is “very unlikely” to integrate Facebook’s Like button or other ways of sharing on the social network, despite it becoming an increasingly important source of traffic, because he is concerned about readers’ privacy.

Speaking at the FT’s Digital Media Conference in London on Wednesday, Mr Wales also said that he was more concerned about big technology companies and app stores controlling the internet’s creativity than threats to “net neutrality”.

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Chris Nuttall Record labels GreenLight new music service

March 7, 2012 6:50 am by Chris Nuttall

Corbis, the Bill Gates-owned company best known for licensing stock images to advertising agencies and other media organisations , is launching a music licensing service backed by the four major record labels.

The service is an extension of its GreenLight music licensing business, used by major advertising agencies. It is being aimed at the corporate market initially but could be extended to individual users who, for example, might want to add music to YouTube videos they upload.

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Chris Nuttall TED2012: Ads worth spreading

March 2, 2012 7:28 am by Chris Nuttall

While its talks give you a lot to chew on, there has been plenty of meat in the ad breaks as well at TED2012, which ends in Long Beach on Friday.

The conference about ideas worth spreading has announced the 10 award winners in its Ads Worth Spreading challenge, showing them in between talks and in an installation at the Google Garage.

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Chris Nuttall TED2012: What’s the big idea?

February 29, 2012 8:17 am by Chris Nuttall

It’s time for another TED here in Long Beach, California – the big-ideas conference, where people you’ve never ever heard of before give wonderful talks about things you neither knew nor thought possible, in front of an audience of incredibly famous people that you’re forbidden to name.

It’s the antithesis of the Oscars held a few miles away at the weekend, with both having a theatreful of big names, but deep thinking and world-changing ideas being honoured onstage here rather than the celebrities off-stage getting all the awards.

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Chris Nuttall Apple addresses address-book furore

February 16, 2012 10:08 am by Chris Nuttall

Apple appears to have acknowledged it needs to tighten up enforcement of its app guidelines following Path’s much-criticised uploading of users’ contacts to its servers without their knowledge.

“Apps that collect or transmit a user’s contact data without their prior permission are in violation of our guidelines,” an Apple spokesman told the FT.

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Spotify’s Ek is music to Grammy lawyers’ ears

February 11, 2012 12:27 am by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

It is a measure of how far streaming digital music services have come that Daniel Ek, co-founder of Spotify, could be feted by a room full of music industry lawyers during Grammy Awards week.

Ek, the keynote speaker at the Entertainment Law Initiative event at the Beverly Hills Hotel, hinted at the industry’s initial resistance when he pointed out that he had started Spotify in 2006 and it had taken him two years to launch in Europe and a full five years before it hit the US market last July.

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