Wise Buddha

It’s been in the works for a long time now - the promise of being able to purchase goods and services using your cellphone. There have been a couple of false starts but it seems that the channel has the caught the attention of some big consumer brands. McDonald’s and Japanese cell company NTT DoCoMo […]

Online gaming experiences tied to an intellectual property have been a bit disappointing - I was really looking forward to The Matrix on line a couple of years ago but it failed to really gain any traction. Likely that the poor sequels didn’t help! We all know about Second Life but this doesn’t really count […]

“The selling of Bush’s Iraq debacle is one of the most important-and appalling-stories of the last half-century, and Michael Isikoff and David Corn have reported the hell out of it.” — Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor, The New Yorker

Hubris is the aptly titled book by Michael Isikoff and David Corn that is a damming unravelling of […]

We tipped Mika in July last year to be a new music sensation in the UK. And we were right! He has both the No1 single and album in the UK simultaneously. It’s nice to be right, be interesting to see if he can make it in the North American market.
Sample some of his music […]

Second Life is all the rage and whilst we take the odd visit from time to time the jury is still out for me as to how I feel about the experience. Part of me is intrigued by the notion of exploring a virtual world and meeting people from all over the planet plus of […]

A picture by graffiti artist Banksy of seniors bowling with bombs entitled ‘Bombing Middle England’ has sold in London for £102,000 / C$210,000 breaking a record for his work. The picture which is made from acrylic and spray-paint on canvas, reached double its highest estimated price of £50,000 at Sotheby’s.
This beats the previous highest price […]

It is rare for Apple Commander in Chief Steve Jobs to comment publically on fundamantal business issues but in a post today on the Apple site he goes into considerable detail about Apple’s position on DRM.
According to Jobs Apple would drop their DRM in a ‘heartbeat’ and explains why. This is genuinally compelling stuff and […]

As you will know music is one of the main currencies of Web 2.0 and there are lots of start -up’s emerging in this space with some very interesting business models. I’m a long time user of emusic for when I’m feeling legit (which is often as I have a monthly subscription) and allofmp3 when […]