The latest issue of Outlook magazine has Kapil Sibal on their cover page sporting the Toothbrush “Hitler” moustache. And you know why.
Siri in India
Here’s a video recording of a conversation that I had with Siri on iPhone 4S. A detailed review is available on the WSJ India blog.
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Broken Embargoes
Popular technology blog ReadWriteWeb has been acquired by SAY Media. AdWeek broke the news – see Techmeme – but turns out that they may have broken the embargo. Richard MacManus wasn’t too pleased and tweeted:
OK, official version is out, 45 minutes before schedule: rww.to/vzJRDzPlease do not link to @anthonyha.
— Richard MacManus (@ricmacnz) December 14, 2011
AdWeek writer Anthony Ha responded saying that the story was accidentaly published:
Everyone saying "nice scoop", thanks, but not really a scoop -- someone else at Adweek accidentally hit the publish button early.
— Anthony Ha (@anthonyha) December 14, 2011
To which Richart replied:
How is it that a publication which broke an embargo (deliberate or not is irrelevant) is still the lead link on @techmeme? That's not right.
— Richard MacManus (@ricmacnz) December 14, 2011
The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed but PaidContent founder Rafat Ali suggests that the tech blog could been sold for “some single digit million.”
This story says @rww sale price was abt $10M. my guess: some single digit million, but mostly stock & earnout bit.ly/tHNYDy
— Rafat Ali (@rafat) December 14, 2011
TechCrunch says that ReadWriteWeb could have been acquired for around $5 million. To put those numbers in context, AOL earlier acquired TechCrunch blog for around $30 million.
ReadWriteWeb gets around 2.8 million uniques per month worldwide according to Google’s Ad Planner but again, these third-party estimates may not be accurate.
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An Effective Ad Campaign
This advertising campaign on the Economic Times homepage against child labor should be very effective.
720p or 1080p HDTV
If you are planning to buy an HDTV, you’ll have to choose between HD (or 720p) and Full HD (or 1080p) TV.
You might assume that 1080p HDTV sets would offer better resolution / picture detail than 720p sets but it would actually depend on the vieweing distance or how far is the the couch from the television screen. The Economist explains:
TV viewers are not enjoying the full benefits of the higher pixel count of 1080p televisions if they sit any further back than 1.8 times the screen width. At a distance of 2.7 times the screen width, they might as well buy a cheaper 720p set, as the eye cannot resolve the finer detail of a 1080p screen at that distance.
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