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The iPhone4 was first released in early June |
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Written by ARMANCH
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 |
 Apple has called a surprise news conference on 16 July at 1800 (BST) to talk about the iPhone 4 as the clamour for the company to resolve antenna problems with the new device intensified. The company has refused to give details about whether the event will address reception problems that some users have reported with the phone, launched just last month. Apple has faced mounting criticism from analysts and consumers over its handling of the issue. Industry watchers said the firm was in danger of damaging its "rock star" reputation over how poorly it had dealt with what would normally be a minor problem. "It seems there has been a real crisis of leadership here," said Patrick Kereley, senior digital strategist for Levick Strategic Communications which deals in crisis managment and reputation protection. |
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Ethan Zuckerman is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society |
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Written by ARMANCH
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 |
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Ethan Zuckerman is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society "The internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be," according to Harvard academic Ethan Zuckerman. Mr Zuckerman was speaking at the TED Global (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference in Oxford. He said that the web was now contrary to the original utopian vision and users focused on information from a handful of wealthy countries. "It's making us 'imaginary cosmopolitans'," he told delegates. Social networks, he said, made the problem worse with the majority of people sharing information with folk who share their world-view. "We think we're getting a broad view of the world, because it's possible that our television, newspapers and internet could be giving us a vastly wider picture than was available for our parents or grandparents," he said. |
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