Advertisers have been increasingly paying for placing in search results (a la Google and Overture) while consumers are signing up for more paid services. However, as one analyst says,

The estimates, from pay TV company Flextech, showed sales have slowed since the fortnight immediately following Freeview’s launch. After selling 65,000 boxes at launch, pay TV company Flextech estimates sales have slowed, indicating he novelty value is wearing off. The novelty gift over Christmas appears to have been digital raodios, not digital TV. About a quarter of a million Freeview adapters are in existence but because Freeview has no subsciption

After disappearing under the Taliban rule – they didn’t take too kindly to the internet – Abdul has re-appeared under the new interim administration in the form of a signature on a plain piece of paper which hands over all authority for Afghanistan’s “.af” domain to the transitional government. No sign of Abdul however. How convenient…

In Unstrung.com’s view, mmO2 and KPN Mobile are unlikely to win a Japanese cash injection (unless they merge with one of the other major players).

“Revolution’s daily news service will now be fulfilled by the new DigitalBulletin from Brand Republic which will be published in association with Revolution. All the daily news will continue to be published on www.revolutionmagazine.com starting tomorrow, Wednesday 15 January.” It’s not clear yet (check tomorrow for updates), but the implication is that much of Revolution’s old daily news coverage will actually be subsumed into Brand Republic’s paid-for service. Although it

He is to pursue a management role at News Corporation, the Sun’s parent company and insists he wasn’t forced out. He’ll be replaced by Rebekah Wade, editor of the News of the World, and a journalist who hasn’t been as kind to New Labour as the Sun in recent years. The Sun now sells close to 3.45m copies a day. The Times runs a fairly straight story. The Independent is