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13 June 2012 With the tech press announcing the death of the pixel, maybe it's time to think that size really does matter again? Ever since the advent of the PC we've always talked about resolution in terms of PIXELS. Those tiny you can see when you get close to your computer screen. But since the introduction of the Retina screens from apple this is being turned on it's head. With the advent of the Retina screens you can no longer see the dots. Rather you just get gorgeous quality images/interfaces/colours ... etc ... So now what's important is real SIZE measurements. Were going back to the print principles - INCHES and DOTS-PER-INCH. This isn't going to be an over night change, but it has started... Links: 13 June 2012 Today is the GTLD announcement day, we will all find out in the next couple of hours which brands/organisaitons have applied for their own bit of the interenet. Application prices to join the cliub are circa £200,000.00 so there won't be too many people doing this: Some of the names we do know about already include: .ari .canon .deloitte .google .hitachi .motorola .neustar .starhub .unicef .youtube Find out more on the BBC website 30 May 2012 This is the list of companies contacted by the ICO: We have written to the following organisations the ICO considers key stakeholders in the national and regional implementation of these changes. This letter forms part of a targeted approach by the ICO to understand compliance across a sample of organisations from different sectors. Acumen Professional Intelligence Limited,
Amazon.co.uk Limited,
AOL (UK) Limited,
Apple (UK) Limited,
Argos Limited,
Associated Newspapers Limited,
Automobile Association Developments Limited,
Barclays Bank PLC,
BBC News,
BBC Radio 1,
BBC Sports,
Belfast City Council,
Betfair Limited,
Boots UK Limited,
British Airways PLC,
British Broadcasting Corporation,
British Sky Broadcasting Limited,
Channel Four Television Corporation,
Department For Transport,
Deputy Company Secretary,
Derry City Council,
Direct Line Insurance Plc,
Domino's Pizza Group Limited,
Dumfries and Galloway Council,
easyJet Airline Company Limited,
Ebay (UK) Limited,
Everything Everywhere Limited,
Facebook UK Ltd,
Giving.com Limited,
Google UK Limited,
Group Regulatory Relations,
Hallmark Cards PLC,
Haymarket Media Group Ltd,
HSBC Bank PLC,
IPC Media Ltd (NME),
Jamie Oliver Enterprises Limited,
Jet2.com Limited,
John Lewis PC,
Lloyds TSB Bank PLC,
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council,
Met Office,
Microcourt Limited,
Microsoft Limited,
Mind Candy Limited,
Moneysupermarket.com,
MyMaths Limited,
National Assembly for Wales,
National Lottery,
National Westminster Bank PLC,
Network Rail Limited,
Next Group PLC,
NHS,
NHS Choices,
Northern Ireland Assembly,
Public Service Ombudsman Wales,
Qype Limited,
Rightmove Group Limited,
Royal Society For The Protection of Birds,
Sainsburys Supermarket Limited,
Scottish Government,
Scottish Parliament,
Scottish Public Services Ombudsman,
Tesco Stores Limited,
tfl.gov.uk,
The Cabinet Office,
The National Trust For Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty,
The Office Of The Ombudsman For NI,
Trader Publishing Ltd,
TSL Education Limited,
Turner Broadcasting System Europe Ltd,
Virgin Media Limited,
Weightwatchers,
Welsh Government,
William Hill (Bookmakers) Ltd,
Yahoo UK Limited, It's a long list :) Want to read more, check out the Blog post on the ICO website.apple kills the pixel
GTLD Announcement Day
884 - US
40 - UK
303 - APAC
17 - Africa
166 - Internationalised (non-Latin
script)
1,930 - Total number of applications
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