Free Wifi across the country could soon become a reality if the trials being undertaken by Freerunner are a success. Initially available in schools, libraries and other commercial establishments, the aim is to roll this service out to a wider audience over time.
This is the first time we are seeing proper ‘free’ Wi-Fi available on a wide scale and look forward to it growing to other parts of the country.
You can read the full story here. With thanks to Techfluff TV for tweeting the story.
The founder of Spotify, Daniel Ek has announced a new iPhone app will be coming shortly, but only to paid up premium members. In a move which I think is great for encouraging new subscribers, this new iPhone app will plug a growing request from Spotify users to take the service on the road. Such a service also has the potential to impact on Itunes sales which still had the portability advantage over Spotify.
There is currently no official announcment on when the app will be available.
I still have a bunch of invites available if you aren’t already enjoying Spotify. Leave a comment if you would like one.
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I am struggling with a cold this weekend so I don’t really have much energy to write anything useful. So I will share with you a postcard I found in London recently..
These are my bookmarks for May 14th from 17:54 to 20:51:
Wow, Google fell over today. There have been no shortage of articles about it, so you don’t need me to write more. But here is the interesting thing.If they say that around 14% of their traffic struggled or failed today they could be looking at a potential drop in daily revenue of around 14%.
So, if you take Q1 earnings as the guide, they made around $369 m per day in revenue from Google.com (excluding network and licensing income). If 14% of today’s audience could not see or click, they could stand to lose around $5m. Small change to a giant like Google, but an expensive mistake.
For reference, these are purely estimations at best, using what information that is publicly available.
During early trading on the Nasdaq, Google also saw a drop in share price of around 5 bucks which would have added to the financial ‘challenges’ they had today.
To be fair, they have pretty straight about the problem. Its got to see they are human after all!
Google's Response
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These are my bookmarks for May 14th from 12:56 to 16:39:
These are my bookmarks for May 13th from 22:03 to 22:46:
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These are my bookmarks for May 12th from 13:28 to 16:43:
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