Recent Articles
Whither print?
Over the past few months there have been a flurry of articles that predict, demand, defend and deny the death of print media.
The facts are generally accepted. Newspapers have historically found revenue in classifieds and print advertising. Classified advertising has been ceded to online competitors and ad revenues aren’t meeting the costs of production. Sales are down yet, while online readership is up, online ad revenue isn’t close to bridging the fiscal gap.
Computing in the cloud
Having recently launched their cloud computing product Azure, Microsoft have triggered further interest in this relatively new computing platform.
Cloud computing currently offers a range of consumer products including mail, video and photo services and developers are able to take advantage of scalable distributed storage and computing but what directions will the platform take?