Robin Raskin is founder of Living in Digital Times, producing six conferences and exhibit areas at the upcoming 2013 International CES conference in Las Vegas.
Historians will certainly be dying for access to information like this for people they want to profile, especially in these digital times when written letters are scarce.
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The issue that GM, the Washington Post, Forbes and all media companies using the traditional advertising model need to face is not whether Facebook is a media company so much as whether or not advertising techniques have fallen behind these digital times.
Continuing strength in paid digital circulation the Times now has 668, 000 digital subscribers helped the Times Co. to beat Wall Street estimates despite a downward trend in ad sales.
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According to a Times spokesperson, 81% of the digital subscribers the Times has signed up since putting up its paywall last March live outside the New York market.
Maybe they can use their winnings to buy digital subscriptions to the Times or News of the World?
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Speaking at an all-hands meeting with the Times' digital staff, the supposedly off-the-record speech somehow made its way to Vimeo.
"We do these investments because we feel they meet a consumer's need, " says Martin Nisenholtz, head of digital operations for the Times.
"Our long-term vision is to reduce download times of digital titles to zero, " said Mark Cerny, Sony's lead system architect on the PS4.
The approach "will help to preserve NYTimes.com's significant reach and advertising inventory, in that it will allow us to retain light users while aiming to convert heavier users to a digital subscription, " Times Co.
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The long-term goal of PS4 is to reduce download times of digital titles to zero: if the system knows enough about a player to predict the next game they will purchase, then that game can be loaded and ready to go before they even click the "buy" button.
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The digital economy is growing seven times faster than the rest of the economy.
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Digital billboards were posted in Times Square this week with Levinson's picture and a message to U.N. delegates asking for help in finding him.
Digital advertising is growing 3 times as fast as TV, and in 5 years will surpass TV and account for 33% of the advertising pie, according to Forrester Research.
The Twitter-DoJ kerfuffle led to a piece in the New York Times suggesting that digital privacy laws need updating, as law enforcement is increasingly turning to tech companies for information in the course of investigations.
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Today marks a significant transition for The New York Times as we introduce digital subscriptions.
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"We applaud this effort they're making to improve the results, " says Martin Nisenholtz, the Times' head of digital operations.
The Times is offering three digital subscription packages that allow you to choose from a variety of devices (computer, smartphone, tablet).
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So far 67% of Comcast customers have yet to switch from analog, which consumes up to 12 times the bandwidth of digital.
He led The Times' move into digital publishing, charging readers to access its online site, and also had to implement cuts at the paper.
Several pilot programs in New York already use existing payphone infrastructure, from digital advertising on phone kiosks in Times Square to interactive touchscreens around Union Square.
Given the same field of view, a typical digital SLR will show a far shallower depth of field, but still 1.6 times larger than that of a full-frame digital camera.
Become increasingly impatient with longer lines, wait-times and delays as instant digital delivery of products and services become the norm.
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Later in the call, Carey offered some additional commentary on the digital sales figures announced yesterday for the Times of London since its adoption of an online paywall.
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Prime started as a free shipping service, morphed into free two-day shipping, recently adding 10, 000 streaming video titles and, now, 5, 000 digital books including New York Times bestsellers.
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Last year I wrote about a study conducted by Innerscope Research and Fox Broadcasting which revealed among other things that television advertising is thirty eight times more emotionally engaging than digital advertising.
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The DX offers more than twice as much Vizplex as the Kindle 2 about half the area of a piece of letter-size paper enough, some assert, to reaccustom Web readers to paying for the digital version of, say, the Times, thereby rescuing daily print journalism from financial ruin.
The Times now has 324, 000 digital-only subscribers, up from 281, 000 at the start of the quarter.
The real progress the Times is making with its latest digital offering is to go backwards.
Even more to the point, Times executives have made building up digital circulation revenues the central pillar of their strategy.
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