Guest columnist Mike Vorhaus, President of Magid Advisors explains why, despite the doom and gloom written about the prospects for mobile advertising revenue for companies like Facebook and others, mobile advertising revenue is poised to grow.

Since the transition to a file-based workflow in media production began, companies have relied on FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to transfer files over the Internet. But this 45-year-old protocol was designed decades ago, in the days when small groups of Internet pioneers moved relatively small files between themselves.

The U.K.'s BBC 6 Music invited musician Pete Townshend to give the inaugural John Peel Lecture on Oct. 2011 at The Quays Theatre in Salford. The following is a transcript of his speech on how the business of music in the digital age should change in order for there to be future musicians.

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