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Morgan Stanley Research predicts that mobile internet use will outpace desktop internet use in near future.

Article discusses highest ranked superbowl ads by DVR reply, and highlights both media and audience trends, as well as the difficulties of measurement.

FT Press, taking a hint from the twitter/blog/rss trend and came up with a business plan to dice up their best book content into smaller, downloadable formats.

Study done in UK has shown that UK Citizens are, overall, vast unaware of the particular laws in their own country

A commentary on how relevant UK copyright laws are to current technological trends and lifestyles. A recent study conducted by Government backed Consumer Forum has revealed that almost 73 percent of consumers in Britain are unaware of the fact that under British law, it is illegal to copy music files from CD onto iPods, laptops or any other device.  The organisation conducted a survey of 2000 UK consumers, of which only 17 percent were aware that it was illegal to copy CDs and DVDs onto their computers, 15 percent knew they were not allowed to copy CDs to their iPods and almost 38 percent confessed of copying music files onto their digital players.  The research has thrown light on the outdated copyright laws in Britain, which still classify copying of content from CDs or DVDs onto digital devices as illegal.  The Consumer Forum has asked the government to amend the law, as millions of Britishers were unknowingly breaking British law by copying content on their iPods everyday. 

This piece is interesting because it is related to a trend to within digital culture to automate and predict taste. It would be interesting to see the relationship between Netflix's predictions and eHarmony's.

Article describing the continuing decline in video game sales that began in 2009.

Breakdown of mergers in 2009.

Film industry is concerned that a gambling site will cause anxiety within the industry and demonstrate the guessing game that is box office statistics.