Steve Wozniak: This is Not My America
Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder has shared his disappointment in regards to the recent NSA privacy scandal. Spanish language tech site FayerWayer rain into Woz at the airport and asked him how he felt about the NSA. All these things that talk about the Constitution that made us so good as people, they're kind of nothing. They all dissolved with the Patriot Act. There's not even a free open court anymore Read more.
AT&T introduces the iObama you can't turn off
Just in case you want more Obama in your life… AT&T is loading iPhones with emergency alerts from Barack Obama… That you can’t switch off. Read more.
APPLE steps up GOOGLE battle with redesign
The bold redesign, which scraps Apple's iconic style in favour of a more generic Android look, was called 'almost unrecognisable' by Jan Dawson, analyst at IT research firm Ovum, and will 'disorientate' customers in a bid to prove the company can still innovate. - See more at: http://politicalmedia.com/articles/apple-steps-up-google-battle-with-redesign#sthash.0z2cDs23.dpuf Read more.
Spy-Partisans come together to end privacy.
Welcome to the era of Bush-Obama, a 16-year span of U.S. history that will be remembered for an unprecedented erosion of civil liberties and a disregard for transparency. On the war against a tactic—terrorism—and its insidious fallout, the United States could have skipped the 2008 election. Read more.
Straightforward ads in a fragmented media sphere
Traditional media isn’t collapsing, but it sure isn’t growing. Read more.
Tensions rise between press, Obama
“We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter,” Clemente said in a statement. “In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press.” Read more.
The State of Social Media Advertising and It's Future
The media constellation has become increasingly fractured. The Web produced the initial fissure, but mobile created new cracks in the landscape. Today, no single medium earns more than 45% of our media consumption. Read more.
Six 'Megatrends' Shaping The Future Of Digital Media
The World Economic Forum is perhaps best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together heads of state, CEOs of some of the world’s largest companies, and assorted other movers and shakers for a week of speeches, panels, and workshops in the Swiss Alps each January. Read more.
eBay CEO enlists users' aid to defeat online sales tax bill
eBay is trying to marshal its users to change federal sales tax legislation pending in the Senate that could usher in the first national Internet sales tax. Read more.
Technology Enables TV Everywhere, But Holdup Is Money
Convergence — is it here yet, marrying TV with computers, or still in previews? At this week's National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas, Adobe Systems (ADBE) launched Adobe Primetime after a long trial run — and released stats showing mobile video consumption growing. Read more.
Building a perfectly optimised preference centre for your email marketing campaign
Whilst identifying the “Cost per Influence” of your email marketing campaign is crucial to evaluating its success, you won’t be able to achieve that success if your campaign is not based on customer insight and responsive to behavioural change. Read more.
Report: Twitter Ad Revenue to Hit Nearly $1 Billion Next Year
Twitter's global ad revenue is expected to hit nearly $1 billion in 2014, according to a new estimate from eMarketer. Read more.
Karl Rove Will Find Republicans Can’t Buy Talent In Silicon Valley
One of the Republican Party’s top campaign masterminds, Karl Rove, is reportedly looking to build the epicenter of conservative digital campaign tools right in the heart of Silicon Valley. “We are working within the party to create a big toolbox that can compete in the midterms and be used by all,” private-equity investor Richard Boyce told the Wall Street Journal about the still-forming entity. Read more.
Google Glass Will Get Prescription Lenses
One of the most discussed topics surrounding Google's futuristic smart glasses is whether the specs could have a prescription lenses option in the future. In a note posted to Google+ on Tuesday, the company answered a resounding, "yes!" Read more.
Web-based 'brain' for robots goes live
European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database of information to help them cope. Read more.The Political Media Report
