Sun Online finds it hard to hit the net.

The first figures since the paper put up its paywall show a heavy 30% drop in audience, despite the promise of goals on demand

• Sun Online had a digital total of 6,244,489
• 2,389,764 arriving by smartphone or pad alone
• with a unique total at 4,188,720

The Sun seem to be basing there business model on football fans, with prices of football tickets and tv subscribtions being at an all time high, it would be very hard for football fans to keep up with all these subscriptions, however due to the fact that they are making money of the users and not the advertiseing adds a benefit to the payway, also they would make substantially more money from their readers so this means the 30% drop may not have affected their revenue as much.

Crowdfund this: Rubicon's £200 3D scanner.

Getting real-life objects converted into 3D models is an expensive affair often costing in excess of £1000, something the £200 Rubicon 3D aims to fix.

compared to most other 3D scanners on the market, including the MakerBot Digitizer, the Rubicon 3D is one-quarter of the cost, while operating faster and with a similar accuracy. It is also compact and simple to use, making 3D object scanning quick and easy.

• costs only £200
• easy to use
• only scans small products
• uses a webcam available to everyone

I believe this technology is great as 3d printing is coming to our homes very soon, it is the future of technology and this is the start of something big as the £200 price tag is not hefty at all.

people will be able to use these scans for cad 3d designs and animation too.

also the fact that ordinary people re able to fund this project through kick-starter is a new technology platform in itself, where people pledge however much they can afford to make projects happen, and if they pledge enough the could receive rewards including the product itself for a fraction of the rrp.

weekly ndm 30th sept

The new iOS 7 version update was released not too far ago and had a flaw in the unlock screen allowing people to bypass the security and hack into their content this was recently updated.

the bug was because of a weakness in the iOS7 control center, allowing people to hit a certain pattern of button

WEEKLY NDM 11/11/13

Abandon digital radio switchover plans, stations tell minister.

Stations tell the government not to make the radio switch to digital as there are still many people using analogue, this could cost stations and radio users hundreds of pounds otherwise. this poses a serious risk of listeners loosing their access to radio stations.
The group is made up of 13 commercial companies including UTV-owned national sports station TalkSport and Celador Radio run by Paul Smith, the man behind ITV's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. 
Scott Taunton says there is no real benefit to changing over to digital, there is no demand in the market and listeners are happy with the service they are provide at this time.

• The consortium representing 80 stations across the UK listened to by 6 million people a week
• there are about 100m analogue sets still in use in UK homes.
• A total of 35.6% of all radio listening was on digital platforms in the third quarter of this year

I believe there is no useful reason to change over to digital radio, as of now the only people who use it are the people who are set in their ways of using the device, this may upset many of the elderly citizens of the uk, the next generation will not need radio soon it may die out.

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"We feel strongly that traditional media have given up on young people, and have not made a commitment to tell stories that are interesting for people under 40 or 50 years old," said Steinberg.

BuzzFeed now has more than 100 full-time writers, with a growing proportion focusing on news and politics. Steinberg said that around 40% of the site's traffic comes from links shared on Facebook, and 70% from social sources in general.

weekly ndm 4/11/2013

TV Christmas adverts battle moves online as shops target social media.

At the end of the week, retailers will have launched their festive campaigns, this year they are spending a lot more online to mirror spending habbits.

• retailers will spend around £390m in the last three months of 2013
• Littlewoods, the Co-op and Waitrose have launched their campaigns in the last few days, and John Lewis, Marks & Spencer and Debenhams will all be screening their first Christmas adverts this week.
• Morrinsons are expected to spend about 9% more on television than last year, with an expensive scramble for the prized slots around the X Factor final on ITV in the second weekend in December.

Overall I believe that the retail companies are on the right direction with the advertising, they are changing with the times and making sure that their audiences are targeted where they are the most.

this can help bring in more revenue into the economy instead of people buying things from shops that are owned by Americans etc.

readers comments

Great, so now even less of a chance of clicking a link on a web page successfully first time, with all the incessant and irritating jumping up and down pages often do these days while loading, with so many banner adverts.

I remember the good old days of basic html pages and wind-up computers.

The adverts are pretty, but a Christmas built on debt will turn to dust - best to avoid the temptation if you can, and share what you have with friends and family.

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Argos MyTablet review - a budget 7in Android tablet from the high-street retailer Argos

he MyTablet’s dual-core processor certainly isn’t powerful, which coupled with its limited 1GB of RAM means multitasking suffers.

Webpages are slow to load. Scrolling lags badly. Watching video on services such as BBC iPlayer is an experience full of frustrating stutter on the tablet’s low-resolution display. (It probably wouldn't drive a standard, let alone high-definition, TV display.)

Argos rates the battery life at around five hours. My testing suggests that's an overestimate – I got around four hours of general use sending emails, browsing the web and watching 30 minutes of video.

The MyTablet comes with a proprietary small pin power adapter, but can also be charged via micro-USB – although the fit and finish of the micro USB port is (surprise!) loose and not quite flush with the edge of the device, making plugging in the cable difficult.

SPECS

• Screen: 7in LCD with 1024 x 600 pixels
• Processor: 1.6GHz dual-core processor
• RAM: 1GB of RAM
• Storage: 8GB plus microSD slot supporting up to 32GB cards
• Operating system: Android 4.2.2
• Camera: 2-megapixel rear camera, 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mini HDMI, micro USB
• Dimensions: 193 x 111.5 x 9mm

My view on this tablet is that both argos and tesco have made the high quality technology that is a tablet into a joke, i believe that if someone wants to get a tablet you should save up and get something good, the words budget and tablet should not go together and if someone does decide to get one of these then they will soon realise that their tablet is becoming slow and laggy, and they lack in modern features.

0.3 MEGAPIXEL FRONT FACING CAMERA???? what is this the 2000's???