PRISM
European PRISM anger gains momentum with fresh cloud warnings and data threats — Tech News and Analysis – interesting addendum at the end about the challenge of health2.0 services due to data privacy trust issues. What we’ll see post PRISM disclosures is a wider skepticism of cloud services. PRISM also builds into the wider European dislike of American big technology companies
Business
Airline Alliance Helped in Crash Aftermath – WSJ – interesting how Asiana has leveraged Star Alliance partners
CBI warns on EU exit: ‘We’ll never be a Switzerland’ – Telegraph – part of the larger great restructure where ‘Old Europe’ as neo-cons called it reflect and work out what their value is in the world today
Shell Picks New Chief Executive – NYTimes.com – focus on LPG and gas to liquids production (synthetic diesel)
Consumer behaviour
Public Shaming – Women’s Wimbledon Champion Marion Bartoli Deemed “Undeserving Ugly Fat Slut” By Sexists Because She’s Not A Tall Skinny Blonde – gobsmacked by some of the vile tweets collected
Britain’s teenagers want to work, not find fame, survey finds | The Observer
Millennials Still Want Their Newspapers | NetNewsCheck.com
Contagious Content – What People Share on Facebook and Why They Share It
Culture
The soundtrack to my week was compiled a list of the best mixes of 2013 (so far) as compiled by Rolling Stone magazine. More here.
Design
Beyond Helvetica: The Real Story Behind Fonts in iOS 7 | Typographica
Economics
Recovery woes: America’s second-largest employer is a temp agency | WashingtonExaminer.com – Walmart then Kelly Services
German industrial orders down unexpectedly – RTÉ News – I guess it depends what you mean by unexpected. I thought it was reasonable to expect given the state of the Eurozone trading partners Germany exports to and the decline in growth in China
Gadgets
Apple USB SD Reader Patent Worries Rivals | BGR – advantage in designing size zero products
Ideas
What It Means That Humans Invented Farming Twice | Motherboard – challenges preconceptions and validity of intellectual property as a concept
Japan
Fastest Growing Japanese Exports – Euromonitor International
Nintendo: Jefferies Starts at Buy; Massive Earnings Miss Will Prompt Change – Barrons.com – expects Nintendo to move franchises to mobile gaming and tablets
Bringing ‘Made in Great Britain’ label to Japan ‹ Japan Today – The British government should encourage British companies to make products in their home country. They should try to concentrate on innovative products that are made in the UK
London
Lisa Maffia is obviously not as down with the kids as she would like to think:
who knows about ‘BOX PARK’ in Shoreditch????
— LISA MAFFIA (@Lisamaffiauk) July 8, 2013
Luxury
Who’s Buying Luxury Watches? | The Financialist – but the local papers here say that sales are down 20 per cent year on year
Media
Three years on: Has the Times digital subscription project worked?
Three Strikes and You’re Still In – France Kills Piracy Disconnections | TorrentFreak
Guardian gets online traffic boost from Snowden story, now nipping at NYT’s heels — paidContent
Global Advertising Study 2013 – IHS – interesting metrics that show North America and Asia way ahead of Europe
Greenwald: Journalist, activist, media transparentist – interesting illumination about how the media is so poor at telling their own story
Scotland Yard seeks Rupert Murdoch secret tape | The Guardian
Online
UK Supreme Court Asks CJEU Whether the Internet is Legal | Kluwer Copyright Blog
Retailing
Aldi’s Manifest Destiny: The Discounter Moves West – Euromonitor International
Security
Apple’s security strategy: make it invisible | Macworld
Software
News – Apple, closer to Android in the US as Carrier Distribution Grows – Kantar Worldpanel
Technology
Technology Workers Are Young (Really Young) – NYTimes.com – just like Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs – use them up and wear them out
Former Windows chief explains why it’s so hard to go cross-platform | CITEworld
Blog – Did Sharp Just Sell Out to China? | EE Times – and then there is display tech from Qualcomm that Sharp can take advantage of
Governments to target tech giants’ tax avoidance: draft | Reuters
Wireless
Leading Japanese Carrier NTT DoCoMo Losing Customers as iPhone Deal Remains Elusive – Mac Rumors – Galapagos wireless syndrome in action?
BBC News – Smartphone becomes in-car head-up display – interesting comments about the limitations car manufacturers face in terms of speed of innovation in vehicles
The iPhone Hasn’t Saved T-Mobile USA Yet – NYTimes.com
Tablets and Smartphones Phenomenal Growth – Euromonitor International