Sky named ‘UK Media Company of the Year’

Canaccord Adams Media Magnate Awards to recognise success

Sky has been named UK Company of the Year at the new Canaccord Adams Media Magnate Awards. In selecting a winner for this category, judges said they were looking to acknowledge the achievements of a successful UK media company of the past twelve months.

They considered factors such as sales, profits and earnings growth, as well as ‘company making’ contracts and transformative acquisitions. Sky was praised for its “quality, originality and popularity”.

Canaccord Adams Media Magnate Awards
The newly instituted awards aim to ‘recognise the very best of the media industry across all sectors and disciplines’ in 10 categories:

UK Media Company of the Year
CEO/Entrepreneur of the Year
Deal of the Year
Investor Of The Year
Lifetime Achievement Media Magnate Award
International Media Company of the Year
Digital Player of the Year
Publisher of the Year
Broadcaster/Production Company of the Year
The Groundbreaking Media First Award
Shortlist
Sky was recognised from a shortlist of companies which included:

Bloomsbury (Publishing)
Chime Communications (PR, Advertising and Communications)
Research Now (Market Research)
Shed Media (TV Production)
Player X (Mobile Media Solutions)

View the full list of shortlisted companies and winners

25 (Most Wanted) Tips For iPhone 3G

Came across this earlier and I thought I’d share it. Some of it I knew, but some I didn’t.

We all know that the handy user experience of iPhone is one of the selling point. But not so many people do realize that there are several shortcuts, tips and tricks available on the iPhone which able to make life much easier.

Check out the post over at hongkiat.com

Winter Music Conference 09

It looks like it’s going to be a big one this year. There are some great gigs going on and I wish I was there to enjoy the fun.

If I was there, my itinery would read something like:
Tuesday – Defected In The House 10th Anniversary Party + Toronto V’s Miami
Wednesday – DJ Mag Party + Pacha NYC w/ Danny Tenaglia + Global Underground All Stars
Thursday – Sasha & Digweed @ Mansion (would try to get round to see Hernan Cattaneo & Darren Emerson)
Friday – Hope V’s Audiotherapy at Shine w/ Dave Seaman
Saturday – Bedrock @ The Vagabond
Sunday – Hmmm, not sure I’d even see Sunday after all this!

Check out some of the listings over at Resident Advisor

Free apps to prevent you wasting time on social networking sites

There’s been an emergence lately of plugins and tools that help you combine with and link to, all your social networking sites. I was just pointed in the direction of an article over at CIO.com which explains a bit more about 7 of the best ones.

Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are great for keeping in touch, but you can eat up an entire day managing your online social sites faster than you can accumulate “friends” and “followers.” Here’s some free services to help you connect, but that prevent the time sink, so you have times for other things (like work!).

Read the full story over here

Convert Web Pages to PDFs with One Click

I love the new html2pdf extension for Firefox. I’m not going to waste any time describing what it does in any detail as it does exactly what it says on the tin

Nice and handy this one. Thanks to Rick Broida over at BNET for pointing it out

Skype opens up to business phone systems

Some big news this week is about Skype opening up its VoIP system so businesses can hook up their internet-based phone systems to the popular service.

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an open standard that allows calls to be initiated on an IP network and makes it possible to integrate features such as presence, or seeing who is available to take a call, into a VoIP network. On Monday, Skype announced Skype For SIP, which it says will let business customers make low-cost calls to fixed lines and mobile phones around the world, and receive calls from Skype users.

Read more over at ZDNet

The best iPhone theme yet?

I have just spent the last hour installing a new theme on my iPhone 3G but was it worth it? I think so!!

My iPhone is Jailbroken and, courtesy of the Winterboard app, Reeco-Mac has come up with, IMHO, the best looking iPhone theme so far – iNav 1.0

iNav Screenshot

More info and how to install is over here

R.I.P. Jade Goody – I think?

So, Ms Goody has left us for a better place – Well I hope it’s a better place for her.

I must admit I have absolutely no time for reality television ‘stars’. As far as I am concerned they don’t hold any significant value in society but I do appreciate that some people nowadays cannot get enough of this trash.

Every time I saw her on TV I turned it over. Her manner, her voice, her stupidity, I could go on, made me cringe but was she as daft as everyone makes out?

She made a heap of cash out her chosen career but at what cost? Everything people like her do is under the microscope and as Stephen Fry put it in his tweet this morning “Jade lived life under a magnifying glass. Magnifying glasses magnify (obviously) but they distort and they burn”. That said, she’s set those kids of hers up for life and I hope they are brought up properly and made to understand the value of the chance in life that they have been given by their late mother

I couldn’t help but feel that during the last few weeks, the coverage of her life had become a real-life Trueman Show and I felt that was sick. In this respect, I’m glad it’s finally over.

So goodbye Jade, I didn’t know you personally but I didn’t like the person I saw on TV they told us was you. I just hope those kids of yours live and learn

Ruin your new job with 1 Tweet

A rather amusing one doing the rounds just now about a ‘soon-to-be’ employee (or not as may now be the case) at networks giant Cisco, rather aptly named as The Cisco Fatty

After just being offered the job, he posted the following on Twitter:

“Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.”

All well and good you may think, but it was spotted by a certain Tim Levad, an eagle-eyed Cisco employee who then promptly replied with:

“Who is the hiring manager. I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the web.”

I wonder if this person shall be turning up to work on Monday??

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