Category: Media
Virgin and Sky sign new five-year deal
Virgin Media subscribers will continue to have access to Sky's entertainment, sport and movie channels – including their HD variants – for at least five more years after the companies signed a new deal. According to The Next Web, the…
Is mobile now the number one way we get the news? It is for Guardian readers
Some fairly seismic news from The Guardian this morning. Anthony Sullivan, group product manager for Guardian Core products at Guardian News & Media who was speaking at the Guardian Mobile Business Summit 2012 conference in London, revealed the website's latest…
Q&A: Vince Gilligan talks Breaking Bad ahead of UK Netflix launch
UK audiences will finally get a chance to catch up with hit US TV show Breaking Bad when it's launched on Netflix over the weekend. So to celebrate, our sister site Shiny Shiny was invited to a preview of the…
Minority Report-style charity ad will show different info to men and women
A new, £30,000 street advert is set to hit a bustop along Oxford Street in London this week, packed full of unique facial recognition tech that will be able to tell whether a man or a woman is looking at…
Apple planning unexpected media event for January
Quick out of the 2012 starting blocks, Apple are rumoured to be planning a media event for late in the month of January, to be held in New York. Before you get your hopes up for an iPad 3 or…
CHRISTMAS GIFT GUIDE: Top Online Digital Services – Spotify, LoveFilm, Dropbox and more!
Tech gifts don't have to be about screen sizes or processing capabilities these days. In fact, they don't have to be physical gifts at all. You can put a smile on a loved one's face just by setting them up…
YouTube to announce new channels with custom-made content?
YouTube could reveal as early as next week that it is launching its own channels with original content, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal. YouTube is thought to have signed a series of partnership deals with…
The Sun website readers personal info released on the web after hack
The Sun website has yet again fallen foul to a hacking attack, which may have lead to the release of thousands of users' sensitive information being released online. The attack has been attributed to a hacker known as Batteye, who…
Hacking the hackers: LulzSec strike at News International
LulzSec, the computer hacking collective thought to have disbanded after hitting a string of high profile targets including Sony, have returned to strike at News International in protest towards the recent phone hacking scandal. Targetting The Sun newspaper's website, the…
News Corp withdraw bid for BSkyB
In the light of the recent hacking scandal that has rocked News Corporation to the core, Rupert Murdoch's media empire has decided to withdraw its bid for BSkyB, a monopolising move that seemed almost certain to be green-lit just a…
