Monday 23 March 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/electronics/11468959/Tim-Cook-offered-his-liver-to-dying-Steve-Jobs.html

CEO Steve Jobs posing with the new iPhone 4 during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco

This article is about how Apple CEO offered his liver to Steve Jobs. Apple chief executive Tim Cook offered to give Steve Jobs part of his liver while the company's co-founder lay dying in bed waiting for a transplant, according to a new book.


  • According to the book, which charts Jobs' life from young entrepreneur to founding and running the largest company in the world, Cook went to see Jobs at his home in 2009, something he would do every day.
  • Jobs had been ill since late-2003 and had now reportedly developed ascites - an accumulation of fluid in the abdomen. He looked frail and tired, and would lay in bed all day while waiting for a liver transplant.
  • Cook returned to Jobs' house the next day and showed the Apple founder his medical records. He added that he was a blood match and there was no risk involved in the operation. As the liver can regenerate and grow, Cook only needed to give Jobs a small part of his own organ.




http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/19/mail-online-guardian-increase-daily-audience-january

Mail Online and the Guardian were the only UK titles to experience a global daily increase in January.

This article is about new digital media and how only 2 traditional media papers are doing well online. The average number of unique browsers visiting Mail Online each day increased by more than 5% to 14.7m while the Guardian saw an increase of nearly 5% to 7.35m, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations for February.


  • Month-on-month, the biggest losers were Trinity Mirror, whose daily browsers fell at its national titles by 16.6% to just under 4m, and Metro, whose average daily browsers decreased by more than 10% to 1.1m.
  • The Telegraph and Independent bothexperienced small falls of about 3% to 4.4m and 2.4m respectively. 
  • The two Northern and Shell titles, which have the smallest audiences online, also fared poorly, with the Daily Express falling 4.5% to under 840,000 and the Daily Star falling by more than 11% to just under 600,000.
I believe these figures show the decline with the newspapers and it's a massive problem with newspapers as it shows the decline. 

Monday 16 March 2015

http://time.com/3745787/apple-watch-translation/

Apple Watch Translator App IHG

This article is about the apple watch and how this could be the most successful app yet. The apple watch could be a fantastic product but it could be very bad and not make many sales you don't know with these risky products. 


  • One of the most interesting of these Apple Watch apps yet is InterContinental Hotels Group’s IHG Translator App.
  • he app, which is already out for iOS and Android devices, will allow travelers to speak English directly into the Apple Watch (or choose pre-selected phrases) for translation into 13 different languages.
I believe this apple watch will not be successful because it costs way too much and people will not find the need for this because they can just use their phones and this costs more than the iphone. 
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/10/holy-moly-gossip-website-closes-popbitch

Holy Moly: launched by Jamie East in 2002

Gossip website Holy Moly, now owned by the makers of Big Brother, has closed after 13 years. This website was created in 2002 and was very successful over the years gaining many viewers. 


  • “Over a decade after the launch of Holy Moly, the articles being published this week will sadly be the last,” it said in a statement.
  • “Everyone involved is incredibly proud of the site but also accepts that the digital publishing world is a very different place from the one Holy Moly started out in 13 years ago and unfortunately it just isn’t financially sustainable anymore.
This was a great website for its target market because it covered most celebrities and people really want news about people who are big in the media. 

Friday 13 March 2015

Review


  1. 16/03/15-  Holy Moly website 
  2. 16/03/15- Apple Watch 
  3. 13/03/15-Snap chat Music 
  4. 13/03/15- Blogger could be beheaded 
  5. 13/03/15- Lager Ipad expected 
  6. 13/03/15-Mail online gains 15 millions viewers 
  7. 13/03/15-Youtube Views 
  8. 13/03/15-vine star hacked
  9. 9/02/15-Bloomberg business 
  10. 9/02/15-Zoella 
  11. 9/02/15-Snapchat helps vice media 
  12. 9/02/15-Wiki Leaks 
  13. 9/02/15-Viber 
  14. 9/02/15-Brits abroad 
  15. 9/02/15-Whatsapp and Facebook 
  16. 9/02/15-Apple Apps
  17. 9/02/15-Mark Zuckerberg 
  18. 9/02/15-Pewdiepie 
  19. 9/02/15-Spotify Russia 
  20. 9/02/15-Rupert Murdoch's grandson 
  21. 5/01/14- Apple memory promises 
  22. 5/01/14- Intel investment
  23. 5/01/14- Lizard squad hack
  24. 5/01/14- twitter arrest
  25. 5/01/14- Ebook
  26. 5/01/14- snap chat valuation 
  27. 5/01/14- Best viral videos
  28. 5/01/14- Sony Interview 
  29. 5/01.14- Soundbox
  30. 5/01/14- Apple forcing consumers 
  31. 5/01/14- Murdoch Paywall 
  32. 5/01/14- facebook review pictures
  33. 12/11/14- Dapper laughs ofcom
  34. 24/11/14-  Tax fraud
  35. 19/11/14- Premier league rights 
  36. 19/11/- Radio 1 channel 
  37. 17/11/14- Taylor Swift music 
  38. 17/11/14- Google phone 
  39. 2/11/14- Youtube adverts 
  40. 2/11/14- Facebook tax
  41. 20/10/14- Snapchat adverts 
  42. 16/10/14- Twitter Trolls 
  43. 16/10/14- internet traffic 
  44. 13/10/14- Minecraft Movie
  45. 13/10/14- Iran Rich kids
  46. 13/10/14- 21 things you didn't know about friends 
  47. 5/10/14- online estate agent 
  48. 5/10/14-   Angry birds 
  49. 28/09/14- netflix growing
  50. 25/09/14-Transport for London mobile contactless payments
  51. 23/09/14-  Gary Linekar involved in a twitter row
  52. 23/09/14- Facebook providing news
  53. 16/09/14-  iphone 6 plus pre orders
  54. 16/09/14- U2 album complaints
  55. 15/09/14- Microsoft wants to purchase minecraft
  56. 11/09/14- Apple vs android  
  57. 11/09/14- premier league rights 
  58. 11/09/14 fifa 15




http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/10/vine-star-ben-phillips-who-makes-12000-a-clip-says-account-was-hacked

Viner Ben Phillips believes his account has been hacked after all of his Vines were deleted on Sunday.

A Vine star who reportedly made £2,000 per second from his posts claims he has been hacked, with all of his videos deleted from his account.


  • star who reportedly made £2,000 per second
  • Ben Phillips, who has has 1.3m followers on the platform which allows users to upload six-second clips, told the Guardian
  • The 22-year-old said he has contacted Vine to ask for help, but may well have to start all over again if the problem can’t be resolved
It is quite staggering how much money he makes for vine clips and they are very short and he puts hardly any work in doing them because they take no effort and are very short. 
1) The first section is about creating an identity for yourself and ideas about self image there is a certain way we want ourself to be seen. 
The second section is about how identities were set to an individual according to many different things e.g class or race 
The third part is about the need of having needs and meeting our desires, advertising has helped people to know what they want.
The fourth part is about a rise of an individual. which is about how a person start to become unique 
The fifth part is about branding and lifestyle which is about the way people buy items to what match their identities. 
The last part is about as individuals we make our own choices and are in control of our public imagine. 

2) 5 brands you will associate: Manchester United, Apple, Nike, Sony, YouTube 

3) Slightly agree as the media because the media really just care about style and fashion because this will bring in more money and more viewers. 

4) Media Saturation is media concerning and involving everybody This could be online and on TV. We are in a Media saturated time because everyone uses it and it has many things in it. Media is used for communicating and is very important in the Digital world. 

5) I believe when you see me on Twitter it is a reflection of who I am in real life because In real life im quite funny and just talk about football and thats what I do in real life

6) Data Mining is quite good as it provides consumers being introduced to things they might like. However they give your data right which isnt right https://arvinderchanaunit3.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=RkzAJEwBAAA.H-3XRrHkzIKsN9vYVi_kJw.7mv59DldjdcYb_z0tzx6lw&postId=4445670681077094481&type=POST

Monday 9 March 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/23/snapchat-music-messaging-app-evan-spiegel

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel says music is 'really appealing' for his messaging app

Fresh from adding soundtrack feature to social app, Evan Spiegel hints at more plans to merge music and messaging in the future. Evan Spiegel has hinted at plans to do more with music in his company’s popular messaging app, describing it as “a really interesting opportunity” Snapchat’s main features involve sharing photos and videos with friends that disappear either as soon as they’re viewed, or after 24 hours. However, the app has added several music features in recent months.


  • They include major label Warner Music Group signing on as one of the launch partners for the app’s Snapchat Discover feature
  • Snapchat also held talks with music videos service Vevo about it becoming a launch partner in Snapchat Discover, but they broke down after the two companies couldn’t agree on how to split advertising revenues from the deal.
I Think this will be A great idea for snap chat as it will make his company even more money. It will be a win win situation for both parties as they can advertise on platform which all their target market use. 
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/01/raif-badawi-could-be-retried-and-beheaded-family-ensaf-haidar-apostasy

Ensaf Haidar, wife of  Raif Badawi.

Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger who was sentenced to a decade in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam, now faces being beheaded for renouncing the religion, his family have said.  

  • They claimed to have learned of attempts within the Saudi judicial system to have Raif Badawi retried for the crime, which carries a death sentence. Amnesty International said it was looking into the claims, which could not be verified on Sunday evening.
  • “Over a million people have called for Raif’s freedom. That should be the only development we’re hearing about.”
  • But his family, who cited “information from reliable sources” they did not name, now believe that the case has been referred on again to the country’s Penal court under regulations introduced last autumn.

This shows that digital media is very influential in the modern day because people may still have the freedom to say anything on line but there still is a limit. 

Friday 6 March 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/05/apples-larger-ipad-pro-expected-october-usb-ports

ipad

 This article is about the new apparent Ipad pro which is expected to be the next ipad. The 12.9in business-focused iPad will begin production in the second half of the year. 


  • Production starting in September would allow Apple to release the new iPad within October, the month in which Apple traditionally refreshes its tablet line.
  • Apple has seen four straight quarters of declining sales of its iPad line, which is currently offered in 9.7in and 7.9in screen sizes, despite the launch of a thinner iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3, both introducing Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor to the tabl
  • A larger iPad measuring 12.9in diagonally would offer 76% more screen area than the current 9.7in if it retains the same 4:3 ratio for its width and length. It could be more attractive to business users, who have already started to use Apple’s 9.7in iPad as a cheaper, more secure and longer-lasting laptop alternative.
I believe if this ipad is at a high price it will be very hard to increase their figures as they are very low and it will be at the same price. What needs to be done is that they have to make them cheaper to get them selling again. 
Emma Barnett

1) Emma Barnett is a New digital media editor for the telegraph. However recently she did suffer bullying online twitter and it was her and other female journalists. She thought it was internet trolls at the start however it did get serious and the police had to get involved. 

2) The tweet that kicked this issue was a tweet sent which stated a bomb has been planted near your house, this was very serious that the police moved the female journalists out of the house. 

3. There wasn't a campaign for this and it stop straight after the police got involved. I believe online nothing was done and there were no campaigns that were done. 

Ched Evans 

1) Ched Evans was a Welsh International who was a great youngster for Sheff Utd and was attracting interest from bigger clubs. However few years ago he was accused of rape, although this was a very strange case because the lady he raped didnt give her consent because she was passed out. 

2. On the night the lady had sex with one of his friend and she was sober enough to give her consent, however the lady wasnt sober enough to give her consent.

3. I believe this is going over the top that he isnt getting a contract because he did give his time and he is just a normal person trying to get back into his job that he loves 

Twitter Silence 

1) This was a campaign made where females where silent on twitter for 24 hours to state their inability to speak online. without getting abuse online. 

2) Idea came from a quote from a book. 

3) i don't believe this a valid argument because it something that will hust worsen the situation and cause a bigger stir. It will provoke people online to worsen the situation. 

Female presence on bank notes

1) Caroline protested against the bank of England to change Winston Churchill on the bank notes.Replaced by Elizabeth fry, however she did win the protest and a female will be placed on a bank note. 

2) The thing that sparked the protest was her to replace males on the bank notes by females 

3) I believe that this wasn't a valid campaign because we already see females on bank notes and it was something for attention as I believe Winston Churchill fully deserves to be on the bank notes because he was the prime Minister when we won the war. 

Emma Watson 

1) Emma Watson wants to raise awareness for gender equality as she wants men to be treated the same as women. 

2) Her own values. 

3) I think her campaign is valid and has a point with this campaign.