Vox

• Vox AI will demonstrate its technology at CES Unveiled Las Vegas on Sunday evening, January 7, 2024, and as part of the NL Tech Pavilion in Eureka Park at the Venetian Expo, Booth 62100, from January 9-12, 2024.
• "We want to redefine human-AI interaction, making it so seamless and intuitive that it becomes a natural part of daily life," said Maurice Kroon, founder and CEO of Vox AI.
• Interested media, industry partners and investors are invited to schedule an appointment at CES 2024 between January 7-12 in Las Vegas to see the advancements of Vox AI.
• Contact [email protected] to set up a meeting at CES 2024 or learn more at https://voxai.tech .

• This strategic alliance between Vox Solutions and Lebanon's Alfa marks an exclusive direct connectivity partnership.
• Lebanon's Alfa CEO and Chairman, Jad Nassif, welcomed yet another milestone in Alfa's ongoing fraud risk management strategy.
• AIT inflates traffic volumes, which not only drives up enterprise costs but also reduces revenues for mobile network operators (MNOs).
• VOX-360 ranks among the foremost solutions in the industry for tackling this mounting challenge
  VOX Solutions' CEO, Ehsan Ahmadi, conveys his determination to address these challenges.

• But there really was a time when exposure to culture was mediated by curators who had far too much power over what we all saw, heard or experienced.
• We had a film press, a television press, a literary press – and a music press.
• Nonetheless, I would read rock publications voraciously and I never passed up the opportunity to contribute.
• There were also things that Fell failed (or perhaps chose not) to include.

Molly, Lily and Go-Set

• Set up by university students, whose only prior experience was Monash University’s paper, Go-Set quickly filled a need for information and connection among pop fans.
• Enthusiastic writers like Lily Brett, Ian (Molly) Meldrum, Johnny Young and Douglas Panther conveyed the inside story of the lives of musicians and celebrities, while maintaining a particular accessibility for their “teens and twenties” readers.
• Go-Set’s publisher, Philip Frazer, went on, in a haphazard way, to bring a Rolling Stone franchise to Australia.

Street papers: ‘uniquely Australian’

• Their extensive advertising revenue from venues, record companies and related industries allowed these publications to be provided at no cost.
• The street paper killed RAM and Juke, not by being anywhere near as good, but far, far cheaper.
• Fell loves the “street papers”, and one gets the sense he would happily have written about them alone.
• Read more:
  How a 'pot-smoking, acid-gobbling smart-arse' became the producer behind some of Australia's greatest music

Undeniable soap operas

• What’s the word for respecting an author’s restraint, while wishing there was just a bit more goss within their pages?
• Of course, there were many links between the producers of music magazines and the people they wrote about.
• By links, I don’t just mean romantic or domestic entanglements, though I do mean that, of course.
• There are also great, undeniable soap operas.
• A public spat between Steve Kilbey of The Church and music journalist Stuart Coupe in the early 1980s springs to mind.

Smash Hits and Rolling Stone

• Back to the topic of Countdown: Fell pays its competitor, Australian Smash Hits, minimal notice.
• Fell didn’t talk to anyone from (or even really about) Australian Smash Hits.
• Rolling Stone has, of course, a 50-year history in Australia.
• Whereas Australian Smash Hits was often criticised for including content from its British parent, the first decade of Rolling Stone in this country was typically little more than a distillation of old cut-and-pastes from the American magazine.

‘I thought it was sci-fi nonsense’

• I was impressed that he believed it, but I thought it was sci-fi nonsense.
• Of course, there is still a music press: look at the preposterously overblown global influence of Pitchfork, for instance.
• In Australia, the music press only takes print form in the most boutique of varieties, like Melbourne magazine Efficient Space.

• "With the addition of PLUS Communications and FP1 Strategies and their deep expertise in healthcare, technology and crisis communications, our ability to serve our clients on the global public affairs stage is now at a whole new level."
• PLUS Communications was established as a public affairs consulting firm specializing in corporate and crisis communications including coalition building, grassroots mobilization, advertising, digital engagement and media relations.
• PLUS Communications is headquartered in Arlington, VA, with regional offices located in Richmond, VA and Austin, Texas.
• The PLUS and FP1 management teams will remain in place, and the agencies will continue to operate under their current brands.