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Google’s UK revenue rise

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Almost incredible interactive chart over at MediaGuardian.

I’m just in the middle of Ofcom’s review of public sector broadcasting. 150 pages of analytical loveliness to fill up my lunch hour. More on this, possibly later. Anyway, as is often the case with Ofcom docs there’s some lovely research nuggets tucked away and this chart caught my eye - asking 16-24 year olds which is their main medium for…

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The interet scores remarkably low as a preferred medium for news on any level - where TV is much more dominant than I would have imagined…but is off the radar for ‘discovering new things’ and personal interest..

BT and WiMax?

BT Group plcImage via WikipediaFast, reliable, ubiquitous mobile connections are the missing bit of the current digital jigsaw. Even with 3G the mobile web still has more than a little feel of the old 56.6K modem about it.

With fast connections in place, innovation tends to fly - and we can only just start to think what we might be able to do with a nice fat invisible pipe permenantly plugged into the device formerly known as our mobile phones.

With this in mind, there was an interesting snippet over on the FT today, following Ian Livingstone’s promotion to CEO of BT: “BT’s Livingstone moots WiMax for expansion

“We will look at WiMax,” said Mr Livingston. He added that BT had enjoyed a “great deal of success” with WiFi, a less powerful mobile technology the company has used to give consumers wireless connections from their laptops to the fixed-line internet.

BT and WiMax is nothing new - see the links below. But here’s hoping ‘look at’ means a little more than ‘look at’.

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