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Eastenders youth spin-off to be web-only

Oct 22nd, 2009
by Alastair Bevan.
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Yes, you read that right.
In Jan 2010, the BBC will launch E20, a spinoff from Eastenders for 17-22 year olds. Read the BBC’s preview here.
In terms of content convergence (breaking down the walls between TV, web, mobile etc) this a groundbreaking move even for non-Enders fans. Some would argue, it’s one only the BBC would [...]

Mobile usage facts

Jan 30th, 2009
by James Wheatley.
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Not age specific but interesting:
Fast facts from BMRB Media: Mobile
In each edition of Media Update we share Fast Facts on a different media sector. This month: Mobile

17.8 million Britons aged 15+ have three or more mobile phones in their household
Two million mobile users are seriously considering switching service providers ‘in the next three months’

In the [...]

The youth mobile shift

Jan 28th, 2009
by James Wheatley.
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Some good stats presented in a (overly?) dramatic way
Mobile Shift by mobileYouth.org

View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: music games)
source: http://www.mobileyouth.org/post/the-mobile-shift/

Location based mobile services

Jan 28th, 2009
by James Wheatley.
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According to this Nokia research paper we will soon have lots of location and context based mobile services:
http://research.nokia.com/files/insight/NTI_Location_&_Context_Jan_2009.pdf
They have developed a system called Nokoscope that will capture, organise and store location and contextual data so it can be used to feed new location based applications like:
Indoor positioning – attaching small RFID tags to things like [...]