Apparently Bill Gates has been saying that newspapers will be all online in around five years.
Also: Mobile TV to be massive by 2011 | Warner and Viagogo tie up on ticket sales | How eBay killed Yahoo! Auctions | Google to police the internet | Natalie Portman looks to do a lonelygirl15 | Google goes web 2.0 in Everest expedition
Speaking at the opening of Microsoft's Strategic Account Summit for marketers and agencies, reports Adweek.
Gates supposedly said that that the only obstacle preventing the wholesale switch now is the clumsiness of devices to read stories.
This story is, however, not that clear when it explains exactly what he means.
Is it a case of every newspaper will have to have a massive web presence or die, or that no one will read print newspapers?
Mobile TV will be massive by 2011 says new report
Screen Digest has launched a new report today looking at how gaming music and TV will transform the mobile market by 2011.
Mobile TV, the relatively nascent and newest form of mobile 'content', will emerge as the massive winner - potentially bigger than games and music they say - delivering 4.7bn Euro (£3.19bn) in revenue globally from 140m subscribers.
This is bold stuff given that broadcast services aren't booming here.
Screen Digest points, as we tend to do with mobile technology, to Japan and Korea as examples of where the market is heading.
"Regulatory and competitive pressures have puched down the average consumer spend on voice and messaging," says Screen Digest analyst David MacQueen. "Mobile operators must now look to new content offerings to deliver the business growth they've enjoyed over the past decade. Screen Digest believes that the revenue is out there - and operators should be looking to TV, music and games to deliver it."
Warner Music ties with Hoberman investment Viagogo for gig ticket reselling
Warner Music has signed a deal with ticket reseller Viagogo, the company Lastminute.com co-founder Brent Hoberman has an investment in, to enable fans to buy gig tickets that are being resold.
The online ticket exchange, which already has ticketing deals with soccer clubs Bayern Munich, Manchester United and Chelsea, would also offer a carrot of extra downloads and videos.
Apparently the deal marks the first time a major music label has partnered with a "secondary ticketing" company.
Viagogo is seeking to build a European rival to US sports and conert ticket reseller StubHub which recently agreed a sale to auction company eBay for $310m.
Actress Natalie Portman to do a lonelygirl15?
Natalie Portman, the actress who played Queen Padme Amidala in the Star Wars films, is looking for funding for a Justin.tv/lonelygirl15-type project to provide an online video stream of her work and personal life.
Well so says Valleywag.
Google plans to police the internet
According to Nicholas Carr's Rough Type blog Google is planning to police the web
If it gets off the ground Google will use new software to automatically identify web pages in its database with Botnet viruses and label them as "potentially harmful" in its search results.
It has done this because, apparently, Botnet viruses used to be distributed mainly through email attachments or computer worms.
However in the past year the operators of botnets have shifted to using regular web sites to distribute their malware.
EBay kills Yahoo! Auctions
Analytics firm HitWise has posted a blog outlining the overwhelming statictical rationale for the decision by Yahoo! to close Yahoo! Auctions next month.
Hitwise points out that eBay has something like 94% marketshare and the duo have an existing ad relationship deal.
Google heads on web 2.0 expedition to Everest
Digital Digest likes a bit of extreme adventure and there a few things more hard core than an Everest expedition.
Well, an Everest expedition that attempts to follow in the footsteps of the fateful climb made by George Mallory in 1924 to see if they could have beaten New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary to the top of the world's highest summit.
In true web 2.0 fashion the production company, Altitude Films, is going uber-interactive with a tie-up with Google to facilitate a website monitoring the ascent at www.ueverest.com.
Expect daily video feeds, photos, an online diary and blogs - the Google deal will see a branded channel of exclusive highlights run on YouTube.
The climb features Conrad Anker, who found Mallory's body on a climb in 1999, and Leo Houlding, a bright young British climbing star.
Last year the Army went all interactive - and then made it into a series of TV ads - in an ascent of the notoriously difficult West Ridge of Everest.
